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To the second Interrogatorie hee answereth … To the second Interrogatorie hee answereth and saith that hee came<br />
first aboard the said shipp at Amsterdam where as aforesaid shee<br />
was built and was there finished about two yeares since, and that the voyage<br />
in question was the first and only voyage that shee hath made, and saith hee<br />
was constituted master by himselfe and company of owners aforesaid, this<br />
deponent being the originall buyer as shee was upon the stocks, and taking<br />
the rest into partnershipp, and saith that this deponent being both master<br />
and an owner, was to serve in the said shipp the said voyage in person as<br />
commander as was contracted in the said affreightment, and saith the said goods were consigned<br />
to be disposed by the said John Mollar, or in case of his absence or death by<br />
this deponent, and upon sale and truck were delivered to severall persons<br />
at Santa Domingo, Spaniards with whom they dealt, and of whom they bought<br />
the said homewards lading.
To the third hee saith that the said shipp went directly from Amsterdam to<br />
Santa Cruse, thence to Trinidad thence to Comana, thence to Santa Domingo, thence retourned<br />
to Santa Cruse, and thence went to the Roade of Gibraltar as aforesaid,<br />
and was at noe other port before the said seizure, and that at Santa Cruse<br />
shee delivered out a parcell of deales as aforesaid amounting in number to about<br />
five thousand[?s], and tooke in thirtie pipes of wine or therabouts (as retourne of the same)<br />
and some oile, and some peece goods were there alsoe delivered that were<br />
laded at Amsterdam by and for account of adventures of particular<br />
marchants of Amsterdam trhatr were none of the said van hultens company<br />
nor concerned in the generall cargo, and this deponent received the freight<br />
of the said particular adventures at Santa Cruse of the Holland Consul<br />
and others to whom the said particular adventures were sent and delivered,<br />
the said freight amounting to eightie peeces of eight or thereabouts, and<br />
received all of hollanders, but for the generall freight of the cargazon hee<br />
saith the same was payable every eight monethes at Amsterdam according<br />
to Charter partie. And otherwise referreth himselfe to his foregoeing deposition<br />
and saving the same cannot further answer.
To the fourth hee saith the said pipes of wine soe taken in at Santa Cruse<br />
(being thirtie two or thereabouts) were alsoe sold at Santa Domingo,<br />
where all the said homewards cargo was taken in, and was all bought<br />
of Spaniards there and thereabouts resident, by the said Mollar and Mexia,<br />
and for the rest hee referreth himselfe to his foregoeing deposition, where hee hath<br />
fully satisfied the same.
To the fifth hee saith that [?harter] Petersson, Gilbert Schouten. Nicholas<br />
Bleau helme, Martin ffromson, Gerret da Jagar, [?RXy?ar] da Bark[?er]<br />
and William Momma all of Amsterdam were and are the persons who with<br />
this deponent and the former three persons of hamborow were and are<br />
the sole owners of the said shipp, and by whose authoritie this deponent<br />
had command of her, and that this deponent was sole commander of<br />
her all the said voyage, and that John Mexia da herera had not at any<br />
time any comand of her, but was only assistant to the said Mollar<br />
and the affaire of her merchandizing. And otherwise hee cannot answer<br />
not knowing what instructions were given or in what language written.
To the sixth hee saith that the said shipp in her said retourne from Santa<br />
Cruse comming into the Streights mouth as shee was going to the Bay<br />
of Gibraltar met with a ffrench fleete of Newfound land men, upon<br />
whose approach there were some papers cast over board out of the ''Santa''<br />
''Maria'' by order of the said Mollar, butwhat they were or the contents<br />
thereof hee knoweth not, and saving them hee knoweth not of any<br />
[whatsoever GUTTER]not of any<br />
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