HCA 13/70 f.728r Annotate
| Volume | HCA 13/70 |
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43.
Salvadore
The 26th of September 1653. [CENTRE HEADING]
The keepers of the Libertie of England}
by authoritie of Parliament against a}
certaine shipp named the Salvadore whereof}
Christian Cloppenburgh was master, and the silver and}
other goods in the same, seized by the shipps}
of this Commonwealth in the immediate}
service thereof. Budd. ffrancklyn, Smith.}
Examined upon an allegation given in the
20th of this instant; on the behalfe
of the State[?s].
Jurian Martinson of fflintzbourgh
in Holsteinland Mariner, aged 34
yeares or thereabouts sworne and examined
To the seaventh and eighth articles of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth
that about Whitsontide in the yeare .1652. the shipp the Mercurius
of Hamborough (whereof Hance young was Master) coming out
of the Streights to Cadiz, this deponent who was one of her Company
and came thither with her found and saw there the shipps the
Sanposn arlate Oto George Master and the Saint George John
Martenson dorp Master and the shipp the Prophett Elias arlate
And saith the said shipps the Sampson and Saint George were then
att Cadiz comonly reputed to be belonging to Amsterdam, where
the said shipp the Sampson hath one of her reputed owners dwelling of
his this deponents knowledge, named Peter Eleson. And the said
shipp the Saint George is alsoe accompted to have owners dwelling att
Amsterdam, And saith the ship the Salvador arlate came thither
about fowerteene dayes after the said shipp the Mercurius, and was
alsoe accompted to belong to Amsterdam and to have owners there
dwelling. And saith the said shipps tooke in severall and greate
quantities of plate and money, and for a good speace they were
all accompted to be bound for Amsterdam whether of his knowledge
the Mercurius was bound, but afterwards there commeing newes of
warre betwixt England and Holland, they the said Masters gave
out that they were all bound for Ostend, or Dunkirke, And as hee heard
gott passes at Cales to that purpose, and of his knowledge the said shipp
the Mercurius gott a passe for fflanders, notwithstanding that shee
was (to the time of the said newes of the said warrs) intended for
Amsterdam. And of the premisses hee this depoent tooke the more
notice, lyeing there about fower Monethes with the said shipp the
Mercurius after such her comming in thither. And saith there was
a common voice and report at Cadiz aforesaid, that the said shipps
with their lading of silver and other Goodes were all bound for
Amsterdam. And otherwise hee cannot depose saving what followeth.
To the ninth and tenth articles hee saith and deposeth that the
Master of the said shipp the Prophett Elias dyed at Cadiz the time
aforesaid, and shee thereupon not departing thence on her intended
voyage her silver and other Goodes were taken out and distributed
and putt into the said other shipps, the Sampson, the Salvador, the
Saingt George, and the Mercury to bee therein transported for Amsterdam
which hee knoweth for the reasons aforesaid, and being present and
seeing her Goodes soe unladen, and laded into the said other shipps
And otheriwse saving as aforesaid hee cannot depose
To the twelveth and thirteenth articles of the said allegation hee
saith and deposeth, that the said shipp the Mercury in or about
the
