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in or about the place where the interrate … in or about the place where the interrate ''Sampson'' was seized, may aswell<br />
bee in her direct Course for the Netherlands as for Ostend or<br />
dunquirke, And saith hee this rendent was in the quality predeposed<br />
aboard the said shipp ''Salvador'' at the time of the seizure interrate./
To the 12th hee saith, That hee this rendent was at Cadiz in the moneths<br />
and yeare interrate, but was not in that yeare at dunquirke, And saith hee<br />
last saw the shipp the ''Goulden Sunn'' interrate whereof Peter Tam was<br />
Master at Cadiz at the time of her departure aforesaid, and never since<br />
And further hee cannot depose./
To the last hee saith hee hath not so deposed/
Repeated before doctor Godolphin
'''KF''' [MARKE, RH SIDE]
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The second day of december <u>1654:</u> Examined upon the said Allegation
'''6.us/'''
'''Henry Slegar''' of hamborough Saylor aged 23.<br />
yeares or thereabouts sworne and examined saith as followeth
To the 11th article of the said Allegation hee saith and deposeth, That about<br />
the middle of the moneth October in the yeare <u>1652.</u> arlate, the shipp<br />
the ''Sampson'' arlate, whereof Otto George was Commander did sett saile<br />
and depart from Cadiz in Spaine in the Companie of the shipps the<br />
''Salvador'' and ''Saint George'' arlate, being bound togeather with their respective<br />
ladeings to Ostend or dunquirke in fflanders and the said shipps having<br />
kept Companie and sailed togeather for about 18. daies or three weekes<br />
as this deponent now remembreth, the same were seized in the English<br />
Channell off of Portsmouth and at the time of their said seizure were<br />
in their direct Course for fflanders as is predeposed, The premisses hee well<br />
knoweth for that this deponent served aboard the shipp the ''Salvador'' long before<br />
and during that passage, and was present at the said seizure. And further<br />
cannot depose./
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To the 12th article hee sauth, That hee well knoweth the ship the [?''Mercurius'']<br />
arlate whereof the arlate hans Younge was Master and saith, That<br />
the said shipp ''Mercurius'' in or about the moneth of September <u>1652</u><br />
having taken in her full ladeing at Cadiz departed thence in Company<br />
of the ''Saint John Evangelist'', (whereof John de Vas was Master) bound<br />
as was then and there commonly reported for Ostend in fflanders, which<br />
was as hee saith about a moneth before the said shipps the ''Sampson''<br />
''Salvador'' and ''Saint George'' departed thence upon the Voyage in question<br />
And saith the said shipp ''Mercurie'' did not at any time after<br />
her such departure from Cadiz meet with at sea or come neeere<br />
or in sight of the said three shipps dureing their said passage [?XXX GUTTER]<br />
the English Channell or time of her seizure aforesaid, neither [?were ?they GUTTER]<br />
at all separated at Sea by any stresse of weather, forasmuch as [?XXX GUTTER]<br />
[?XX GUTTER] as [?XXX GUTTER]<br />
[?XX GUTTER] +
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