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The same day. [CENTRE HEADING]

Examined upon the sayd allegation.

2).

William de Smitt of Ostend mariner aged 33.
yeares or thereabouts a witnes sworne and
examined deposeth and saith as followeth. videlicet.

To the first article of the sayd allegation this deponent saith that he this deponent
being att Dunkerke in September last past then and there saw the sayd
shipp the Hopewell now in question, and understood that she was a prize
shipp taken from the ffrench, and that the sayd William Hassard had
bought her of one Lucas da Croep, but whether the sayd shipp were
there condemned or elsewhere in fflanders or by authority of the King
of Spaine or not hee knoweth not neyther doth he know that the
sayd William Hassard payd 700 gilders for her to the sayd Lucas Croep

To the second article of the sayd allegation This deponent saith that about the
tyme aforesayd att Dunkerke he saw the arlate Lucas Croep discharge
the waiter that attended aboard the sayd shipp and deliver quiet and
actuall possession of her to the sayd William Hassard who accepted and
tooke the same and entred upon the sayd shipp or bessell by vertue of
the foresayd delivery as Master and Owner of her. And saith of the
certayne knowledge and sight of this deponent the sayd William Hassard
being possest of the sayd shipp as aforesayd did att his owne Charges
equiipp furnish and fitt out the sayd shipp to sea upon a voyage
from Dunkerke to this port of London, and buy for and fitt to and
upoon the sayd shipp a new mainmast and severall ropes and tackles
and caused the sayles of the sayd shipp to be mended and therein expended
a good summe of moneyes the value whereof he knoweth not, part
whereof he there borrowed of this deponent and hath since repayd
the same. And saith the sayd shipp was after her such fitting to sea
laden with severall goods which were first [?XXXX] to have bene laden
aboard the Saint Peter pf Ostend, wherof this deponent is Master, which goods
were brought in the sayd shipp Hopewell from Dunkerke to this port of
London and here discharged of the sight of this deponent, who [?XXXX]
[?say]

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