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that was in the said shipp at the time of … that was in the said shipp at the time of her seizure by the ''lizard frigot''<br />
was soe laden on the said coast for the account aforesaid, and there was<br />
none other but what was soe there laden, saving the eighteene potaccoes<br />
which shee afterwards tooke in at Santa Cruse for Augustin Rosetti a<br />
Genoese, which hee saith are Varinas Tobacco as hee conceiveth<br />
the same to be, The premisses hee deposeth being master as aforesaid<br />
and the person that soe traded and tooke in the foresaid tobaccoe<br />
as hee hath predeposed.
To the fourth hee saith that not getting his whole lading<br />
at the said coast, hee came with the said shipp and such tobaccoes as<br />
hee had as aforesaid there taken to the Canaries, and arived<br />
at Santa Cruse to seeke for freight and further imployment for the<br />
proffit of his said owners, and there tooke in severall goods upon<br />
freight to be transported to Amsterdam for account of severall merchants<br />
for the which owners to receive freight according to the schedule annexed<br />
nowe showed unto him, and two stivers on each gilder for average,<br />
And this hee saith was and is true and reall; which hee knoweth being<br />
master the and the person that contracted for the said freight.
To the fifth árticle hee saith and deposeth that the said shipp<br />
after the premisses departed with the foresaid goods and merchandizes<br />
from Santa Cruse, and prosecuting her voyage for Amsterdam, was in<br />
her course seized by the ''lizard frigot'' together with all her foresaid<br />
goods aboard her and carried to Milford haven, having then alsoe<br />
in her of her said outwards lading belonging to her owners that<br />
were undisposed of two pipes of Spanish wines two pipes of<br />
brandewine two halfe alms of Spanish wine, and two fatts containing two<br />
thousand knives; and further that there were then in her about<br />
seaventie two dozen of Tortois shells in three baggs or<br />
sacks, five greate potts and two small potts of balsame for account<br />
of this deponent and his said owners of Amsterdam, which this deponent<br />
bought for the said account of and from the said Rosetti and paid<br />
him for the same/
To the sixth article hee saith that the said Egbart Scutt and<br />
John da Pottar and this deponent were and are dutchmen and<br />
Inhabitants of Amsterdam, and subiects of the States of the United<br />
Netherlands, betwixt whom and this nation there was and is<br />
amitie/ And
To the Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first hee saith hee hath heard and beleeveth that the<br />
said shipp was built at Lubeck, and that the said Scutt and<br />
Potter about 18 or 20 monthes since bought her at Amsterdam<br />
of Jacob van Eust and his brother for about five thousand gildars, which hee knoweth<br />
being present at the bargaine at the signe of the Sea-Riddar<br />
a victualling house neare the C[?hapele] [SXXXgth], a place where many<br />
shipps are sold, and that afterwards they bestowed much cost in fitting<br />
and furnishing her for this present voyage in question, which was<br />
the first voyage wherein shee was by them imployed. And that hee was<br />
thereupon constituted master by them but did not see the bill of sale<br />
that being passed before a Notary as the manner thereisssed before a Notary as the manner thereis +
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