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The 2d day of August. 1658:
A businesse o … The 2d day of August. 1658:
A businesse of Examination of Wittnesses for the}<br />
perpetuall memorie of the matter, on the part and}<br />
behalf of William Ustick Owner of a certaine}<br />
shipp called the ''Hope'' of London (whereof Robert}<br />
Whitting is Master) and of Thomas Hopkins.}<br />
Richard Hopkins, John Izard, Richard Barker}<br />
and Thomas Smith, upon certaine Interrogatories on}<br />
their behalf Ministred. ffrancklin}
Examined upon Interrogatories<br />
ministred on the part<br />
and behalf of<br />
the said William Ustick<br />
and others before mentioned.
'''Rp. 1us.'''
'''Jacob de Keysar''' of fflushing in Zeeland<br />
Mariner aged 31. yeares or thereabouts, a<br />
wittnesse produced, and duely sworne before<br />
the right worshippfull Charles George Cock Esquire one<br />
of the Judges of the high Court of Admiraltie of<br />
England the say and yeare abovesaid by vertue<br />
of his oath saieth and deposeth as followeth, to witt
To the first Interrogatorie hee saieth That hee this examinate very<br />
well knoweth the shipp the ''Hope'' interrate (whereof Robert<br />
Whitting interrate was (and is, as he beleeveth) Master) and that<br />
the said shipp was and is of the burthen of thirty or forty<br />
tunns or thereabouts to the best of this deponents judgement and doeth<br />
as hee this examinate hath credibly heard and assuredly beleeveth,<br />
belong to this Port of London, and that William Ustick aforesaid<br />
an English Merchant was and is the Owner thereof, and hath<br />
soe beene ever since this deponent by especiall order of the said William Ustick<br />
did buy the said shipp at fflushing aforesaid at a publique outcrye there about twelve<br />
moneths since (as neere as he now remembreth the time) for the sole<br />
accompt of him the said William Ustick who then and ever since was and still<br />
is generally reputed a Subject of this Commonwealth of England<br />
And further to this Interrogatorie he deposeth not/
To the second Interrogatorie hee saieth, That hee doeth not know any<br />
thing of or concerning the fraighting or ffraighters of the shipp<br />
interrate at or upon the voiage interrate, Nor can any thing<br />
materially depose to this Interrogatorie.
To the third Interrogatorie hee saieth, That he cannot depose, being<br />
altogether unacquainted with the designe, outwards lading or<br />
relading of the said shipp, in this Interrogatorie questioned./
To the 4th 5th and 6th Interrogatories hee saieth he cannot depose
Repeated before doctor Godolphin./
Jacob de keyser [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]in./
Jacob de keyser [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] +
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