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Transcription

Rowe dt

To the Interrogatories.

To the first hee saith hee was at Amsterdam with the said shipp about
18. or 19 monethes since, and not since, and that hee alone hath bin
alwaies master of the said shipp since the said Slegall his said buying
thereof as aforesaid, And otherwise hee cannot answer saving his
foresaid deposition.

To the second hee saith that the service and imployment of the said
Slegall in the said warres under the Queene of Sweden was in the way of
a Commission or some such office to receive the souldiers at Stettin
and furnish them with provisions of meate drinke, clothes and other
accomodations, and then to send them to the the armie; and saith that
hee did not see any bill of sale or other transport in writing made of
the said shipp to the said Slegall, but beleeveth it was entred in the
Queens officers bookes as is donne in like cases for others. And further
hee cannot answer saving as aforesaid.

To the third hee saith the said shipp came about two yeares and a halfe
since from Stockholme to Amsterdam laden with iron and copper and
delivered the same to severall Merchants of Amsterdam; and that about
19 monethes since hee came from Amsterdam with peece goods laden
by severall merchants bound for Cadiz in Spaine, where hee had delivered
the same to severall merchants or factors, and thence went in ballast to
Allicant and there got a freight of barilla and cable twine or [?Sparto] for
Marseilla, and thence backe againe to Allicant, and made severall [?XX]
and freights in Spaine and back againe to Marseilla and thence to
Tolon where hee tooke in the said shipps present lading of currants
for hamburgers, or if prevented by the Ice or time of the yeere then
for Ostend or Dunquirke, and for the accompt and to whom the said
goods are belonging hee referreth himselfe to the bills of lading and
documents seized in the said shipp, And otherwise hee cannot depose.

To the fourth hee saith that hee hath heard that the said shipp is Hollands
built, but doth not know that shee is soe. And saith shee was
victualled at Amsterdam and manned there upon her proceeding thence
as aforesaid. And otherwise referreth himselfe to his foregoing depositions.

To the fifth hee saith hee this deponent was borne at a dorp or village in [?BXX]
in the dominion of the Kinge of Spaine about 3 miles from Berghen
op't Zoom, but came very yonge thence and was educated at Skadam
in Holland, and hath lived the most of his time in Holland and Zeeland
in the dominion of the States of the United Netherlands, and when he
proceeded last (as aforesaid) from Amsterdam, hee left his wife and
familie there, and that there are not above three or foure Hollanders in
his company, the rest being of other out countries, not subiects of the
said States. And otherwise hee cannot answer saving as aforesaid

To the 6th negatively to every part thereof saving his foregoing depositions to
which hee referreth himselfe, saying the said shipp never belonged to
Amsterdam since this deponents knowledge of her.

To the 7th hee saith that at Marseilla this last voyage, hee
remitted by the hands of Tobias Solicoffer to the said Jaques Loone
to Amsterdam 2000 gilders, to be by the said Loon remitted to the said
Slegall, by meanes that there was noe commoditie of exchange
from Marseilla for Stettin or Stockholme, and saith the said [??money]