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Spaine to amsterdam and there, finishing there severall voyages within the nine yeares last.
this deponent hath seene the said Christian Cloppenburgh deliver
at Amsterdam to severall persons there residing, namely the first time to
a merchant dwelling on the keisers gracht, the second time to one
Arian Poulsen dwelling in the (?Strewet) market, and
the last time which was about two yeares since to one vanderstraten
in the heeresgracht, but for the time(being soe longe since) persons or quantitie hee
saith hee doth not otherwise remember then as aforesaid. And further hee cannot
answer saving his foregoing deposition.

To the 22 hee hath not deposed, namely not of any confession made
by the said Christian Cloppengburgh that his said shipp belonged to Amsterdam.

To the 23th hee saith hee hath seene the shipp the Mercurius interrate at
Cadiz about 6 yeares since, and saith she was a broadsterned shipp having
three or four and twenty gunnes, holland built at least in appearance, and
of about 400 tonnes burthen, and since that time hee hath not seene her
saving about 4 yeares since at which time hee sawe her at Amsterdam
and never sawe the Golden Sunn being at Ostend the time aforesaid, which
hee saith was then of the burthen (in his estimacion) of five hundred tonnes
and a broadsterned shipp alsoe of a holland mould,
and otherwise hee cannot answer (?XXXX) as aforesaid.

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