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seventeenth day of September, now last pas … seventeenth day of September, now last past, And that the said<br />
ship in that time made severall Ports, and places, and delivered<br />
out and tooke in severall Merchandizes and goods, And that<br />
the Lading now in question, was, most part of it put aboard at<br />
Santa Cruze, And that in the passage from Santa Cruze for Amsterdam<br />
shee was with her Lading, surprized and takenm by one of the<br />
ffrigotts in the service of this Comonwealth, And saith that the<br />
said Marriners served in the said shipp at the time mentioned<br />
and Expressed in the said schedule, And that the severall<br />
summes of Money schedulated are respectively due into them<br />
And ought to be payd unto them for such their service, All<br />
which hee knoweth because hee was Boatswaine of the said ship<br />
all the said time, and still, in the said ship, And acquainted<br />
with the Hiring and serving of the rest of the Mariners, at the<br />
Rates, and wages, And further that the said Claus Williamson<br />
was Master of the said shipp and was soe put Master of her by the owners<br />
of the same, And served in her all the said time, and still is<br />
Master of her, And this deponent hath often heard him say hee was<br />
to have 60 Guelders per moneth. Pay for his service therein, and<br />
soe much hee saith hee well deserveth, that being very ordinary<br />
Pay for a Master of such a voyage, And otherwise hee cannot<br />
depose
To the Interrogatories:/. [CENTRE HEADING]
To the ffirst hee saith that all the said Company was hired by<br />
the said Mr Claus Williamson to serve and goe in the said shipp<br />
at the said Rates, and entered their names accordingly in his<br />
Booke, together with their Wages, And that some of them were shipped<br />
three or foure dayes sooner than the other, But hee saith that their<br />
Entring into pay was all at once, namely on the said 17th day<br />
of May 1656: new stil, being the day, in which the ship set saile<br />
And otherwise (referring himselfe to his foregoeing deposition) hee<br />
cannot Answer,
To the second hee saith, that hee was not present at the hiring of<br />
all the said Mariners being when they were under saile they<br />
all declared to each other their wages to bee after the rates<br />
aforesaid, And the Master acknowledged, the same, And saith they<br />
were hired by the Moneth, And not otherwise, And otherwise hee<br />
cannot Answer saving as aforesaid.
To the third hee saith the said ship went directly from the Texell to<br />
the Iland of Tobagoe, one of the Caribbes, Thence to the wild Coast<br />
and there delivered severall goods upon Truck, for Tobaccoe thence to<br />
Santa Cruze, and there delivered more, and tooke in goods there, but receaved<br />
noe ffreight at any Place./:
To;br />
noe ffreight at any Place./:
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