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Transcription

The fourth day of January 1653 [CENTRE HEADING]

The Clayme of William Meurin of}
dunkerke for the shipp the ffortune}
of which Garret Clawson is master}
and the goods being ffrench wyne,}
and other small things lately seized}
by some of the shipps of this}
Commonwealth and brought to}
dover Suckly Budd}

Examined upon the sayd allegation.

Garret Clawson of dunkerke in
fflanders master of the sayd shipp
the ffortune aged 48 yeares or
thereabouts a witnes sworne and examined
deposeth and saith as followeth videlicet

To the first Article of the sayd allegation This deponent saith that he this
deponent in the yeare 1651 and in or about the moneth of Aprill of
the same yeare by the order and for and on the behalfe of the
arlate William Meurin did contract agree for and really buy
for five thousand four hundred and fifty livers or guilders the
arlate shipp the ffortune whereof this deponent is master, which shipp
att that tyme was called the golden Akorne, and was so bought
by this deponent of and from the arlate Reyner Johnson of
hartlinghem in ffreezland who was then in possession of her
as master and gave out and pretended that he had power from all
his owners to make an absolute sale thereof, And saith that hee
this deponent having so bought her offered himselfe ready to pay
the sayd money in behalfe of the sayd Meuryn, and demaunded
possession and delivert thereof to be made, but saith that by reason
of an Arrest which it seemes unwitting to this deponent lay upon
the sayd shipp for monety that had bene taken upp in the East Countrey
upon bottomery, and severall incumbrances incident thereunto, the
sayd shipp was not nor could be then delivered to the sayd Meurin
or this deponent on his behalfe although he this deponent as aforesayd
did desiire and endeavour it and offered himselfe ready to
pay the money contracted for as aforesayd. And otherwise cannot
depose, saving that he this deponent hereupon did by order with the consent
and in the name and on the behalfe of the sayd Meurin cause an Arrest to be made
upon the sayd shipp to the end noe other person might buy her
to the preiudice of the foresayd contract.

To the second article of the sayd allegation this deponent saith that after such
tyme as the sayd shipp had layne about 28. monethes under the sayd
William Meurins arrest Notice was given him the sayd Meurin that the sayd shipp
now called the ffortune formerly the Golden Acorn should be
delivered to him according to the foresayd contract, And thereupon he
this deponent by order of the sayd Meurin in the moneth of ffebruary
1652 old stile or 1653 new stile went from dunkerke to Amsterdam
to receyve the sayd vessell, and being come to Amsterdam where the
sayd shipp so lay under Arrest, he this deponent in the name and for
and on the behalfe of the sayd Meurin did there really and truly
pay unto the sayd Reyner Johnson in Ryx dollars and ducatones
the full summe of five thousand four hundred and fifty livers
or Guilders for the sayd shipp being the summe contracted for
as