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To the fourth hee saith hee believeth Capt … To the fourth hee saith hee believeth Captain Phillips paid all<br />
charges of Custome and other charges for the goods seized, and otherwise<br />
hee cannot depose.
To the 5th hee cannot otherwise answer there as afore.
To the Interrogatories in the second place. [CENTRE HEADING]
To the sixth negatively for his part and otherwise hee cannot answer.
To the second and 3 hee answereth negatively for his part, and otherwise hee cannot answer.
To the 4th and 5 hee cannot depose.
to the 6 negatively for his part and otherwise he cannot answer.
Repeated before the Judges in Court
John White [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 14th of November 1655
The claime of Albert Lemmerman of}<br />
Amsterdam for the shipp the ''Saint Jacob''}<br />
of Amsterdam (Arent [?] Mariuis master)}<br />
and her tackle and furniture, and of the said}<br />
Albert Lemmerman Abraham Amper and}<br />
companie merchants of Amsterdam and places}<br />
thereabouts subjects of the lords the states of}<br />
the united Netherlands for their goods laden aboard,}<br />
and taken away by severall persons inhabiting}<br />
in and about Little Hampton in the County of}<br />
Sussex. ffranklin. Budd.}
Examined upon an allegation given unto<br />
the high Court of the Admiraltie of<br />
England by the said ffranklin, proctor<br />
for the said claimers hee sweareth<br />
of this instant.
'''Hendrick Mattyson''' of<br />
Stralesund in pommer land mariner,<br />
late principall boatswain of the<br />
said shipp the ''Saint Jacob'', aged<br />
34 yeeres or thereabouts sworne<br />
and examined.
To the first article of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth that hee<br />
well knoweth the producent Albert Lemmerman and hath soe donne<br />
for these seven yeeres last or thereabouts, and saith that for all that<br />
time arlate the said Albert hath bin and any others present [INSERT: xxx to her] the true<br />
and sole owner and proprietor of the said shipp and of her tackle and<br />
furniture and for such commonly accompted, which hee knoweth because hee<br />
this deponent was hired to serve in her upon this her last voyage from<br />
Amsterdam in the presence and at the charge of him the said Lemmerman<br />
who fitted and set her out at his owne cost, as sole owner of her.
To the second article hee saith and deposeth that in and about the monthes<br />
of August and September last past the said shipp the ''Saint Jacob'' being<br />
then at Porto Porto in the dominions of the king of Portugall<br />
(out bound for Amsterdam) was there laden with two<br />
hundred sixtee and foure bales of sumack, five hundred and all<br />
Rolles of tobaccoe, five and twenty chests of sugar, eighteene<br />
Elephants teeth, five bales of linnens and foure cases of sweetmeates<br />
and some other goods and merchandizes to be transported from the<br />
saido be transported from the<br />
said +
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