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'''A.2.'''
The 25th of January 1653.
Ril … '''A.2.'''
The 25th of January 1653.
Riley and company against the ''Yellowe''}<br />
''Basket'' Claus Peterson late master}
'''Rp.'''
'''.1.'''
'''Abraham Timeson''' of Sniderdorp in<br />
North Holland late Stiersman of the said shipp<br />
the ''Yellowe Basket'', aged 26 yeares or thereabouts<br />
sworne as in the acts of Court and examined<br />
upon certaine Interrogatories ministred on the<br />
behalfe of the said Riley and company saith<br />
as followeth.
To the first second and third Interrogatories hee saith hee was aboard and<br />
was Stiersman of the said shipp the ''Yellow Basket'' (Claus Peterson<br />
Ourf master) at the time of her seizure by Captaine Welch and<br />
company), which happened on the sixth of December last (newe<br />
stile) Nore-Norewest of Schagen, at which time the said shipp<br />
was in her course from Dantzike for Amsterdam, at which port of<br />
Amsterdam shee was to dischardge her lading of wheatt, rie, and<br />
other goods, which were for the most part laden for accompt of Marchants of Amsterdam<br />
and other Hollanders and were to be delivered unto them there or their agents, and saith that<br />
Abraham de Witt a Hollander laded 53 lasts of the said rie, and one<br />
Mr Admirall alsoe a Hollander laded 13 lasts of wheat and sixteene<br />
lasts of rie, one Mr Backheuse laded 20 lasts of wheate, one<br />
Hance Sager laded 15 lasts of wheate, Peter Cub laded 30 lasts of rie<br />
and other persons laded the rest being in the whole 147 lasts of wheat<br />
and rie together, and that Peter Vlaerk an Amsteldammer laded 10<br />
baggs of wooll, Gerret vander hovenen 4 baggs of wooll, Garret<br />
Ilbrandsson laded 7 great chests conteyning barrells of glasse<br />
bottles, and 30 cases of bottles, and 8 barrells of [?XXXes] and ex [?hXXXes]<br />
Cornelius Clauson of North Holland laded 9 barrells of Dantzike biscuit,<br />
Claude la Reine a Prussian laded 32 Prussia deales, another Dantziker<br />
20 chests of glasses, another merchant of Munniken Dam named<br />
Cornelius Zacharius laded a pack of Dantzike cloth, hance hasen<br />
a Dane laded 62 barrells of small [?nuts], and 4 baggs of wooll, and<br />
a barrell of gloves and stockings, and that hance Jarianson (or<br />
having some such name) a Dantziker laded 150 rolls of<br />
course linnen or stocking, and saith that all the said lading was to<br />
be dischardged at Amsterdam. And saith that the said shipp belongeth<br />
to Amsterdam, and that her owners dwell there and in other places of<br />
Holland thereabouts, and were and are subiects of the States of the<br />
United Netherlands, and saith that the said master and company live<br />
all in and about Amsterdam and were and are alsoe all subiects<br />
of the said States, and that the shipp was built at Edam, and<br />
that Captaine Welch showd his Commission at the time of<br />
the said seizure.
abram tymensen schort [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]abram tymensen schort [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] +
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