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shee was about sixteene monethes since sei … shee was about sixteene monethes since seized and by some of the shipps of the Commonwealth and carried to Portsmouth and [?afterwards GUTTER] brought up into the River of Thames,<br />
and that after such<br />
her seizure and bringing up, shee was in this high Court of the<br />
Admiraltie of England claimed by Nicholas Clement and Adrian<br />
van Balstrode and company (owners of her) all subjects of the Lords<br />
the States of the United Netherlands, to whom (upon proofe made<br />
of their proprietie) shee was restored by Sentence or decree of<br />
the said Court, and was delivered to the said John kein her master<br />
to their use, all which hee knoweth for that hee upon the letters<br />
of the said Adrian van Balstrode his correspondent, and<br />
by vertue of a [?proclamation] from all the said owners, prosecuted their<br />
claime in this Court for the said shipp tackle and furniture, and<br />
obtained the said restitution.
To the second and third Interrogatories hee saith that after the said release and<br />
restitution of the said shipp from the said seizure, and alsoe of<br />
part of her lading to Subiects of the said States of the United<br />
Netherlands, the said shipp was bound for Cadiz in Spaine<br />
and the said John kein her master firmed new bills of lading for<br />
carrying the said goods soe restored to Cadiz, to which place the said<br />
master undertooke to carry them and deliver them there of this<br />
deponents knowledge, and before his proceeding hence, the said<br />
John kein often said and declared to this deponent and in his hearing<br />
that if hee could meete with a freight that might be advantage[eous GUTTER]<br />
and profitable for his owners either at Cadiz, Malaga or other<br />
port of Spaines for England, hee would accept thereof; But well<br />
knowing that by the [?nowe] lawes of this Commonwealth hee<br />
could not not bring commodities of the growth of Spaine into<br />
England in his said shipp being a dutch shipp without danger of<br />
confiscation of shipp and lading, hee the said John kein [?often GUTTER]<br />
said and affirmed that hee would before his going from England<br />
make a colourable bill of sale of his said shipp, tackle<br />
apparell and furniture to some English man and Marchant, subject<br />
of this Commonwealth to avoide the said danger./
To the fourth fifth and sixth and seventh Interrogatories hee saith that the said Nicholas<br />
Clement and Adrian Van Bulstrode and company aforesaid owners<br />
of the said shipp, understanding the said designe of the said master<br />
sent this deponent and his partner John Buck a [?proclamation]<br />
enabling them to make sale of the said shipp to some English[?man GUTTER]<br />
and wrote that the said sale was by them meant and intended to be [XX GUTTER]<br />
colourable and pro forma, and meerly to avoide confiscation [?on GUTTER]<br />
the said shipps retourne to London with goods of Spaine; But saith that this [XXX GUTTER]<br />
and his said partner, not finding it expedient<br />
to make such a fraudeulent and colourable contract, declined the [XXX GUTTER]<br />
of the said sale, and refused to doe the same, and of such the<br />
refusall they certified the said owners.<br />
After which hee saith the said Captaine keene not being satisfied [?with GUTTER]<br />
their reasons for such their refusall, persisted that hee would [XX GUTTER]sall, persisted that hee would [XX GUTTER] +
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