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Transcription

Saint John Baptist and of her tackle and furniture and for such commonly
accounted and reputed, and bought her of this State at the Prize office about
three yeeres since, and constituted this deponent then master of her, who hath
bin master of her ever since, and ever since sailed her under and in the immediate
imployment of the said Mr Lucie, saving one voyage wherein shee was part
freighted by other English to goe to hull, and saith hee this deponent was
specally acquainted with such the said Mr Lucies buying her of this State, to
which shee was adiudged prize being taken upon the hollanders in time of that
warr with them.

To the second article hee saith that in or about ffebruary last the said luke
Lucie caused the said shipp to be laden with salt at Rochell for Riga, whither
shee went and carried the same, and there delivered it for his account, and
there harman Backer who received the same reloaded the said shipp with
clapwood and other timber and wood for the same account for this port, but
hee gave this deponent order that hee should at sea (meeting with any
Ostenders or dunkirkers) affirme that hee was bound for Rochell to deliver,
and to this purpose gave this deponent a letter and bill of lading directed
to ffrancis Clauson a merchant of Rochell, and mentioning the said goods to be
for his the said harmans owne account, and this was soe donne to prevent
seizure by the dunkirkers or Ostenders, and was donne by order of the
said Mr Lucie, signified in a letter to the said harman Barker, and by him
shewed to this deponent, but when this deponent should be come with the
said shipp and goods to the downes, hee was ordered to run in for this
port, as hee saith it was his purpose to have donne, being bound thether
and to noe other place to deliver the said goods.

To the third hee saith that in his course comming betwixt Callice and dover the
hee was about monday last was seavenight met with by the
dartmouth frigot in the immediat service of this Commonwealth, at which
time the John Baptiste was six or seaven leagues past the course for Ostend and dunkirke,
and was standing towards the coast of Callice because the winde was westerly
and the tide of flood against her turning in for this river, running with
the next tide of ebb to stand in for the same, and saith hee kept soe much the
longer onwards on the ffrench coast, to avoide the surprize of any dunkerker
or Ostender of his being bound for this port, and this hee saith was and
is the very truth.

To the Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING]

To the first second and third hee saith that the said mr Lucie having so bought
the said shipp here about three yeeres since, put her out hence under the
conduct of this deponent in ballast and five or six hogsheads of goods for
Rochell, and it being in the time of the warrs with the Hollanders from
when shee had bin taken, this deponent for the better freeing her from them
sailed her to dunquirke, and there came to an anchor, having the oportunitie
of a convoy thither, and soe having bin upon the king of Spaines ground,
and thereby freed from the hollanders pretence unto her, had sailed her
across for Rochell in ballast, and there received her lading of salt for the
said mr Lucies account for this port, and that in her course hetherward
shee was met with by a shipp of warr of this Commonwealth and
brought in under pretence of prize, but being cleared by mr Lucie to
whom both shipp and lading belonged, and the said salt being here by him
received, shee was by him here let to freight for two
parts
to two English merchants and the third part hee freighted or kept
to his