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Transcription

aboard the Christopher arlate att the time of her seizure predeposed any
more but one sword that hee knoweth of which belonged to a ffrench man that
was Passinger in the said shipp which hee sayeth was taken away att the seizure
of the said shipp by the Prosperous arlate And sayeth That there was not any
Resistance or opposition made against the Company of the Prosperous or the men
put on board her by the arlate Generall [?muncke] neither was it possible in
this deponents Judgement for the said ship Christophers Companie to have made
any opposition therein for that there were three of the foresaid Captaine Swaynes
Company and three more of the arlate Generall muncks ffleete and
an English Pilott and the rest aboard her were onely three men and one
boy and two Passingers [?XXXXXed] the Generall Munckes [?ffleete] arlate
beinge behynd them soe that without a Pilott for three hours they could
not have carryed out the said Shipp to have gotten away from the said
English ffleete or from the men then aboard her And further cannot Depose

To the 12th article of the said allegation hee sayeth and Deposeth That att the time
of the Seizure there were aboard the said Vessell the greate Christopher
arlate one hundred and seaven and forty bundles of hempe sixteene fatts of [?potashes]
[?tow] hundred Tunns of Linseed all which were laden aboard the said Shipp att
Riga for the accompt of the ffreighters above named and three hundred pounds
of wax which were for this Deponents propper accompt and were consigned to
dunkyrke and from thence were to have beene transported to London
And this deponent for his part did never heare wither the arlate Michael [?Croyr]
the master arlate or any other of the said Master and Company say or affirme That the
said Shipp he greate Christopher or her Ladeinge arlate were bound for Holland
or Zealand or any other port or place within the dominions of the State
of the United Provinces And further cannot Depose Saving tat the said
Shipp and Ladeing predeposed did and doe belong to the Subiects of the
Queene of Sweden as is arlate/:

To the thirteenth article of the said allegation hee sayeth and Deposeth That after the
seizure of the Shipp the great Christopher as is predeposed The Lefetenanet of
the private man of warr the Prosperous arlate did tell this Deponent and
and others of the Company aboard the Christopher That the said shipp
and her Ladeing would certaynely prove prize or to that purport And this
Deponent thereunto replyeing to this effect [?videlicet] [?Hee] thought [?that] could
not be [?XXXXX] That they were freinds and [?XXX XXXX] and had nothinge
but free goods in her Hee the said Leifetenant Told this Deponent That
there was noe right to be had in England ffor nor shall be [?believed]
what [?XXX] say and [?you] shall npt ffor noe Parliament are a [?XXXX] of [?XXXX]
People [?XXXX] [?roagues] and Kinges murderers And that if the Hollanders
[?wXXX]

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