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To the 6th hee saith that it is publiq and … To the 6th hee saith that it is publiq and well knowne<br />
that for severall Yeeres last their hath bin peace and<br />
Amity betweene the Commonwealth of England and<br />
the King of France./:
To the 7th and 8th articles of the said Allegation and the schedule<br />
annexed now shewed unto him this Deponent beginning<br />
Wÿ de Recksirs der Admiralteÿt &c. and ending Actum tot Oostende den eenentwentichsten Augusti xvi neghenen [? GUTTER]<br />
and Signed R. Lamberty. hee saith that the said schedule<br />
was and is a true Copy of the Originall sentence<br />
of Adjudication of the said Ketch the ''Elizabeth'' [?remaining GUTTER]<br />
in the registry of Ostend. And saith that on the 22th of<br />
January last new stile this Deponent being thereto<br />
Imployed by the producent) did take out the said Copy<br />
out of the Registry of the Admiralty Court at Ostend<br />
and saith that hee sawe the Copy now shewed unto<br />
him, written out by the Originall, by one of the [?Registry GUTTER]<br />
Clerks and after it was written, this Deponent (who well understands the Dutch Language) diligently<br />
compared and Examined the same with the Originall<br />
and found it to agree with the same in all things<br />
and desiring the Register of the said Court to give<br />
him his Certificate that it was a true Copy of The<br />
said Register wrote a Certificate at the bottome of<br />
the said Copy, and signed the same (as now it is) in this Deponents<br />
presence, And this deponent then asked the said Registry<br />
if noe other Sentence was Given against the said Ketch<br />
to which hee answered. Noe, they did not use to give any<br />
Sentence against a ship if there bee not claime given<br />
or to that effect, And saith that the said Ketch mentioned<br />
in the said Copy of the said Sentence, and the Ketch<br />
Controverted in this cause, and now Lying at Dover<br />
was and is the same Ketch which hee Knoweth for that<br />
hee sawe the said Ketch lying at Ostend, about a moneth<br />
after shee was seized, and carried in thither by the said<br />
Hamilton and Verstelle, and was there told both by the<br />
said Hamilton and Verstelle and several others that [?that GUTTER]<br />
was the Ketch which they the said Hamilton<br />
and Verstelle tooke and of which John Stone was Master, and<br />
this deponent about Nine weeks since sawe the said Ketch<br />
at Dover, and knewe her to be the same Ketch which [?hee GUTTER]<br />
soe sawe at Ostend, by several marks, and tokens And<br />
further cannot depose./:
To the 10th hee saith that the said Register of the said [?Admiralty GUTTER]<br />
Court at Ostend told this Deponent that there was noe claime<br />
given in for the said Ketch the ''Elizabeth'' before such her<br />
Adjudication. And further cannot depose./.
To the last hee saith his foregoing deposition is true./e saith his foregoing deposition is true./ +
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