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To the 11th hee cannot Answer./.
To the 1 … To the 11th hee cannot Answer./.
To the 12th hee referreth himselfe to his foregoeing deposition and<br />
further cannot Answer./.
To the 13th and 14th hee hath not soe deposed
To the 15th hee cannot Answer:/.
To the 16th and 17th hee hath not soe deposed./:
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The 28th of Aprill 1659.
drawater against the ''Saint Anne'' of}<br />
Amsterdam hendrick Johnson master}<br />
and against her tackle and furniture}<br />
Suckely. Cheeke.}
Examined upon an allegation made yesterday in the acts<br />
of Court on behalfe of the said drawater.
'''dt.'''
'''Hendrick Johnson''' of Ra[XX?p] in holland Mariner<br />
Master of the said shipp aged 33 yeeres or thereabouts<br />
sworne and examined.
To the said allegation hee saith and deposeth that one Mr demetrius<br />
factor or agent of and for the said James drawater did at Amsterdam<br />
about eight moneth since take the shipp the ''Anne'' aforesaid to<br />
freight for a voyage to be made with her from Amsterdam for<br />
Cadiz, there to deliver such goods as the said freighter should lade or<br />
cause to be laded aboard her, and to receive such other goods as by his<br />
order should at Cadiz be provided and brought to be [XX] laded aboard<br />
her for this port to which shee was to retourne therewith, And saith<br />
that the said shipp lying long and could not proceed<br />
by meanes of fowle weather and Ice, and having greate want of money, this deponent<br />
bespake the said factor to lend and furnish for her use and occasions<br />
a summe of money upon bottomry, to be repaid with consideration<br />
for the use thereof after the said shipps retourne or to that effect; and that the said<br />
freighter lent and advanced upon such [?instance] of this deponent the<br />
summe of eleaven hundred gilders. And further that after receipt thereof<br />
the said factor in regard of this deponents not<br />
proceeding, making complaint to the Magistrate, caused the said shipp<br />
to be arrested, and then this deponent and one of his owners comming to<br />
treatie with the said factor, did in consideration of the said moneys and<br />
the delay and preiudice suffered by his principall (mr drawater) in<br />
the said shipp not proceeding but [?desisting] from the said voyage, agreed<br />
to allow and pay unto him the summe of two and twenty hundred gilders,<br />
hollands money, amounting to two hundred and twenty pounds sterling<br />
or thereabouts, and that the said shipp should be liable to make good the<br />
payment thereof, or to that effect, and the said factor accepted thereof<br />
And saith that comming afterwards to this port, shee was here arrested<br />
for the said moneys at the sute of the said mr drawater, and lies now<br />
under that arrest, and that the said summe of two and twenty hundred<br />
gilders is really due upon and from the saids shipp for the said debt[X GUTTER]<br />
soe contracted.
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