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To the last hee saith his foregoeing depos … To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true.
To the Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first hee answereth and saith that the names of his respective<br />
owners with their shares and habitations are as followeth videlicet the said<br />
Warren hugeson of dover in England subiect of this Commonwealth owner<br />
of a fourth par, Jacob Bourmans of Middleborow, owner of a fourth<br />
part, Raynier Martinson of the same owner of another fourth part<br />
and Jacob Lievveson of the same owner alsoe of a fourth part, which last three<br />
persons hee saith are subiects of the Lords States of the United Netherlands<br />
And that hee this examinate is [?one] part owner thereof, And it<br />
is donne as required.
To the second hee answereth that the shipp the ''ffortune'' at the time<br />
of the said seizure was of the burthen of sixtie tonnes or thereabouts,<br />
And was with her tackle and furniture then well worth the summe of<br />
one hundred and twenty pounds sterling at the least in his estimation,<br />
and hee beleeveth his owners would then have given more money,<br />
then have lost her. And saith that hee is soe well knowne and esteemed<br />
at fflushing that hee could long since have bin put master of another shipp,<br />
since the ''ffortune'' was soe seized, if hee would have left her and his<br />
owners to have looked after it, which hee knoweth hee ought not to doe<br />
And saith that after his comming home after the said seizure hee was<br />
by some of his said owners and others sent to [?Sluce] to buy another vessell<br />
of which hee was to goe master, and had agreed for her when the [?meanes]<br />
came that the ''ffortune'' was found at Wivenhoe, upon which his said owners<br />
of Middleborow would needs have him come over to looke after her, and<br />
therefore hee saith hee need not violate his oath and dorsweare himselfe<br />
(which hee abhores to doe) for want of a shipp to goe master of, as in this<br />
Interrogatorie is uncharitably intimated. And further answereth not.
To the third hee answerth that the said shipp had noe guns or defence<br />
at all, shee being but a hoy, and having noe other company than this deponent<br />
and one man more and a boy, and saith the said ketch had the said<br />
English colours abroad when this deponent first descried her, and that was<br />
the reason that hee tooke her to be the dover Packet boate, and with the<br />
same colours shee ranne aboard him, and under them her men came aboard<br />
the ''ffortune'', And saith her company had noe reason to feare being taken<br />
by the ''ffortune'', being soe inconsiderable a boate and without materialls<br />
for offence or defence, but it was through fraud that they spreas those<br />
colours, to [?XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX to] deceive this deponent and others, such being as hee saith their<br />
practize, for hee saith that having sent away his vessell as aforesaid<br />
they having this deponent aboard to set him ashore, comming neere Marget<br />
and seeing a frigot come off from Marget, they skulked amongest<br />
some ffishermen that were there fishing, and least the said frigot should<br />
perceive them to be Capers and hale them, and understand how they<br />
seized the vessells of English and dutch by Swedish commission[?s] under English<br />
colours, they hung up severall mackerells in their tackle (it being<br />
mackerell time) as the ffisher men did, and soe passing for a fishing<br />
boate, the frigot passed by without examining them, and shortly they set<br />
this deponent there ashore, And further answereth not saving as aforesaid.
To the fourth hee saith that the ''ffortune'' was in his esteeme about halfe<br />
a dutch mile from the South end of the Goodwin sand, and about two dutch<br />
miles from the English shore when shee was soe seized, being much neerer<br />
the seized, being much neerer<br />
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