HCA 13/66 Silver IMG 118 07 2472 Annotate
| Volume | HCA 13/66 |
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| Folio | 13 |
| Side | Recto |
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| Uploaded image; transcribed on 20/08/2015; deposition of Nicholas van Asperen (Purser and under Stiersman of the Salvador) | |
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| First transcriber | |
| Colin Greenstreet | |
| First transcribed | |
| 2015/08/20 | |
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staied by some shipp or shipps of the Parliaments fleete, and hee beleeveth the
same to be true. And otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the second hee saith hee knoweth all the said masters, but lnoweth not any
of their companies, and for the said masters hee hath only knowne them since
their comming to this citie upon their said stay.
To the third and fourth hee saith that since the said stay of the said shipps hee hath bin
in this Court and on the Exchange and alsoe here in company of the
said three masters, and hath seene the Register of the lading of the said
shipp the Sampson in custodie of
his precontest and brother Peter Vandeput and likewise thhe [?bXX]
lading of the Salvador, namely a catalogue of the lading with the markes
and numbers of the goods and silver and to whom consigned, but sawe
any such catalogue in the custodie of the said masters, nor any other
bills, documents, booke oor bookes or Charter partie what soever [?Touchin)] the
said goods or silver either in custodie of the said masters or of an other
person, and saith that the said catalogues in some places specified for
whose accompt some of the said goods and silver were laden,
and further that the said masters did not tell him nor did hee understand
otherwise than by the said catalogues for whose accompt any part of the
said goods or silver were saving that the masters told him
and hee hath bin otherwise informed that the lading in Generall was for accompt of Spaniards
fflemings and hamburgers and otherwise
hee cannot depose saving the said Otto George and Christian Cloppenburgh
told him that their catalogues (before hee had seen them) were in the custodie of his said brother
and that the [?like] were in this Court. And for the booke or catalogue
of the said Straetman hee sawe none, only his papers hee hath seene
in this Court, and alsoe the papers of the said Otto George and
Christian Cloppenburgh. And saving that hee hath heard and beleeveth
that the foresaid catalogues of the said Otto George and Christian
Cloppenburgh are redelivered by the said Peter van deput to the said
masters
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Repeated before doctor Exton
Giles Vandeput [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The third of december 1652. [CENTRE HEADING]
Touching the Silver and money}
aboard the Salvador.}
[?Smith dt.] [?XX int]
Nicholas van Asperen of hamburgh Purser and under Stiersman
of the said shipp Salvador aged 38 yeares or thereabouts
sworne before the right worshipfull [BLANK IN MANUSCRIPT] doctor of lawes one
of the Judges of the high Court of the Admiraltie saith
and deposeth.
That at such time as the silver and money aboard the said shipp were unladen
and loaded by the Commissioners for dutch prize Goods, hee this deponent
being as aforesaid Purser and under stiersman of her was present and tooke a
note and accompt thereof in writinge conteyning the number of the baggs and
marks, and alsoe of the barrs and barretons, as the same were dischardged
out of the shipp into a boate brought fir that purpose, and afterwards
namely
