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Costs of the said Owners before this deponent came from Hamborgh which
was in March last past for the use aforesayd he this deponent being present
att and seeing the sayd things bought and provided att Hamborgh att
the costs and to and for the use aforesayd. And otherwise cannot depose.

To the 8th article of the sayd allegation he saith that the sayd Daniell Brands Adolph
Sumpton Jan Norris and this deponent and the sayd Basilius a Bastill while
he was partowner of the sayd shipp did for all the tyme aforesayd constantly
take upon them to be Owners of the sayd shipp and give them selves out
to be Owners thereof and by such as know them and were acquainted
with them att Hamburgh and elsewhere did look upon them for and as such
Owners threof, which he knoweth for the reasons aforesayd and daily
observation of the premisses. and otherwise cannot depose.

To the 9th article of the sayd allegation This deponent saith that for all the tyme
aforesayd from the first building of the sayd shipp and particularly on her
last voyage to Cadiz and att Cadiz whilset she lay there as aforesayd and
her Course from thence this voyage and att the styme of her seizure she hath
constantly worne and carryed the Hamburgh Colours, and hath not att
any tyme worne or used the Hollands Colours, or or Colours used by any
of the United Provinces, nor of any other Prince or State but of
Hamburgh onely which he knoweth having bene master of her in all
the voyages she hath made. And otherwise cannot depose.

To the .10th. article of the sayd allegation he saith that since the sayd shipp was
first built she hath made onely one voyage to Amsterdam which her
voyage happened in the yeare 1649 and since that tyme she never was
att Amsterdam, and in particular saith shee was not nor hath bene att
Amsterdam or in port or place within the Jurisdiction of the States
of the United Provinces since the warres betweene England and
Holland, and that noe Hollander or ffrenchman or any other person whatsoever
but the sayd Daniel Brands Adolph Sampton Jan Norris and this deponent
and teh sayd Basilius a Bastill ever had any tithe or interest in or to the
sayd shipp nor hath any person att present or since January last had any
part or interest therein the sayd Brands Sampton Norris and this deponent
onely excepted, And otherwise cannot depose.

To the .11th. article of the sayd allegation This deponent saith that the last port
which the sayd shippe came from before she came to Cadiz where her
present lading now in question was taken in, was Haver de Grace in ffrance
and that she came from Haver de Grace in May 1653. and that the goods
there taken in being linnen Cloth was designed for West India, the
premisses he knoweth for that he was by his bills of lading for the sayd
goods bound to keepe them in his shipp 30 dayes after his arrivall upon
the bay of Cadiz, and saith upon his arrivall there and after 30 dayes
stay he did earnestly desire the factors att Cadiz to whom the same were
cpnsigned to receyve the same out of his shipp, and that they thereupon
requested this deponent still to keepe them aboard saying thhey were to be
sent to the Indies in the Galleons of the King of Spaine, and that they
daily expected some of the sayd galleons to come and receyve them, and
that he this deponent refusing to keepe them any longer aboard
but discharging his said shipp of them and deliviering them the sayd factors did
not carry them into Cadiz, but did of theis deponents sight lade them
upon another ship then riding in the sayd bay in expectation of the
sayd Galleons, in which expectation the sayd shipp into which the
sayd