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to belong to the said de [?Cominck] and the said shipps Owners
(whom this rendent saith hee knoweth not) And further hee
saith hee cannot answer:/

To the 4th hee saith, That the said shipp being under saile upon the
open sea with her said lading neere the Barbadoes was
about the moneth of March last past surprized and taken by
the said dover ffrigatt, and that the seizors thereof brought the
same to the Barbadoes, where they turned ashoare the said
shipps Master and Companie (whereof this rendent was one)
and utterly divested and deprived the said Master Companie and
Owners of the said shipp and goods, And further cannot depose

Repeated with this precontest before
Doctor Clerke:/

the marke of
Gisbrecht [MARKE] Arianson [MARKE, RH SIDE]

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The 9th day of June .1655:- [CENTRE HEADING]

The Clayme of John harbyn of London Merchant for}
his goods seized in the Crowned oxe of flushing by two}
English private men of warr, where were Captaines}
Bradshaw and Ware. Suckley}

Examined upon an Allegation on
the behalfe of the said John harbyn

jus.

Merinis Isaacson of flushing in Zeeland
Mariner aged 32. yeares or thereabouts a Wittnes sworne
and examined saith as followeth videlicet/

To the third Article of the said Allegation, and the bill of lading therein mentioned
and now shewne unto and perused by this deponent hee saith, That hee this deponent
in or about the moneth of January last past being at Bourdeaux in ffrance
did then and there receive into and aboard his said shipp ten Caskes of
Tobacco being estimated to bee fower Tonnes and a halfe or thereabouts
of shipps Tonns, for which hee upon the receipt thereof did signe and firme
three bills of lading being all of one tenor and marked as in the margent

[MERCHANT'S MARKE, LH MARGIN]

importing that the said goods were by him to be delivered at Morlaix in
ffrance for the accompt of Mr John harbyn Merchant therein
mentioned, And saith That the same bill of lading was and is really
firmed with this deponents owne hand and conforme to the other two bills
of lading of the same tenor by him this deponent signed to the same effect
And saith That the Contents of the sad bill of lading were and
are true, as being really firmed by this deponent who doeth not know of
nor beleeve any fraud or fallacie to have beene used as to the prpriety
therein expressed or otherwise. And further cannot depose:-/

To the last hee saith, That the said shipp and Tobaccoes in their Course
from Bourdeaux toward Morlaix were surprized and taken by two
English private men of warr, then under the Commannd of one
Bradshaw and one Ware, whoe brought the said shipp and goods
to Guernezey (where they disposed of the said Tobaccoes and the other goods
but how much the said Tobaccoes were worth, hee knoweth not
The premisses hee declareth for that hee was Master of the said shipp and
present at the said seizure, and at the bringing up of the said goods
(And