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To the 3d hee saith that about Eleaven day … To the 3d hee saith that about Eleaven dayes after the said goods<br />
were unladen and put into the said Claes his ffathers house as aforesaid<br />
the said Goods (which were really worth and did Cost the<br />
said owners with Charges of putting them on<br />
board the summe of two thousand Nine hundred<br />
fifty Eight pounds Eighteene [?shillings] sterling or thereabouts (as this Deponent verily beleeveth)<br />
were seized upon by the order of the King of Denmarke<br />
or his Agents for none payment of Customes (as the said King<br />
Declared in the sentence for Condemnation of the same)<br />
And saith that the Customes for the same did not amount<br />
unto Tenne Pounds, And all the said Goods have ever<br />
since bin Detained from the said John ffreeman thelder<br />
this Deponent Mr Travers and the other English merchants<br />
Interessed therein to their great Damage, and Contrary<br />
(as this Deponent is Informed) to the Lawe of DEnmarke,<br />
and expresse opinion and Declaration of his Majestie<br />
pf Denmarke, [?fyr] hee this [?Deponent] Delivered up a Petition<br />
to his said Majestye About the said goods and soe soone as the<br />
same was Read to him by one of his Officers, hee said in<br />
Dutch in the presence of hearing of this Deponent, who understandeth<br />
the Dutch Language, that there was a bone for his Counsell<br />
to pick, And said alsoe in this<br />
Deponents hearing, that hee Did [?tell] them (meaning his Counsell)<br />
that the merchants would not loose their goods soe or<br />
to thaty effect, And the said King gave order to his secretary<br />
to write on the back side of his Petition that<br />
the goods (meaning the foresaid Goods were<br />
Condemned by his Couns[?i]ll, and therefore hee could doe<br />
nothing in it till his Counsell met, or to that effect, And<br />
further cannot depose./.
To the 4th hee saith that by the Lawe of Denmarke called the<br />
Searight if any shipper or seaman Comit a fault in any<br />
thing Contrary to Lawe: (as this Deponent is Credibly Informed he<br />
shall forfeit noe other part but what is his owne, either in<br />
ship or goods, And further saith that the foresaid Henry<br />
[?wineshinke] (the ffather of the said Claes [?wineshinke] the Owner of the<br />
said ship the ''Salvadore'' in his Petition of the twelveth of<br />
January 1653/4 to his said Majestie of Denmarke Confesseth [?his]<br />
said sonns Default about the said Goods and prayeth his Pardon<br />
and Humbly desireth that the merchants may not suffer who<br />
were [?Innorent] (as in reallity they were, and were not<br />
Guilty of the said Claes his fault, but the same was done Contrary<br />
to their minds and wills, and without their knowledge or order<br />
And yet notwithstanding the said Goods of the vallue aforesayd<br />
have ever since bin detained from them and they are much<br />
prejudiced in Charges and Damages in seeking to recover satisfaction<br />
in denmarke and by reason of the want of their<br />
of their goods, and the Proffet they might have made [XXXXX]<br />
the summe of a Thousand Pounds sterling at the Least, And<br />
(thaterling at the Least, And<br />
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