HCA 13/71 f.535v Annotate
Volume | HCA 13/71 |
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Folio | 535 |
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Colin Greenstreet | |
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2012/10/26 | |
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Edited on 26/11/2012 and on 22/05/2014 by Colin Greenstreet |
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laden at London with severall goods and bound for Rotterdam
and was in her course thitherwards by stresse of weather driven with
her ladeing into Ostend and there seized with her ladeing by the
subiects of the King of Spaine, and there kept and deteyned notwith=
standing shee was a dutch shipp and belonging to the subiects of the
States of the United Provinces, only upon suspition that shee had goods
on board her belonging to English and the sayd John de Ketts her
Master put to trouble and charge Which reports
hee this deponent verily beleeveth and is perswaded in his
conscience was and is true And further to this article hee cannot depose/
To the 4th hee cannot depose
To the 5th hee saith hee hath heard it reported by one who came in (as shee sayd) in
1the vessell arlate wherein the sayd de New came at the tyme arlate that the sayd vessell
was a dutch shipp and belonging to subiects of the states of the United
Provinces and that shee was in her course from Rotterdam bound for
Colchester about November last surprized by a man of warr belonging
to the King of Spaines subiects who notwithstanding the Master of the
sayd vessell did acquainte the Commander of the sayd man of warr
that his vessell was a dutch vessell, and doe all that hee could
to hinder the man of warr from comming on board) did come on
board the sayd vessell and understanding that the arlate de New
was a subiect of the Commonwealth of England did by force take
away from him goods to a good value And further to this article
hee cannot depose./
To the 6th article hee saith hee well knoweth the shipp the hare in the
ffeild arlate and that shee was and is a dutch shipp and belonging to
Subiects of the states of the United Provinces and was soe adiudged
in this Court, and was by decree of the sayd Court restored to Adrian
Van Bulstrode Nicholas Clement and others all Inhabitants of
Zealand and Owners of the sayd shipp and some part of her ladeing, this
hee knoweth for that hee was imployed by the sayd Bulstrode and other
the Owners to procure, and did procure the sayd decree of restitution for the sayd shipp and part of her ladeing under
seale of this Court, And this deponent knoweth that after the sayd restitutions
obteyned the sayd shipp hare in the ffeild did with the goods soe restored to
subiects of the states of the United Provinces and other goods
sett sayle from London about June or July 1656 bound for Cadiz
where being arrived this deponent was by letters of Advice
from his Correspondents there, as also by a letter from John Keene
the Master of her informed that the sayd shipp and her ladeing
though belonging to dutch were there seized, and made
prize, and this deponent did by order of the Owners of the sayd shipp
procure and send an exemplification under the seale of this Court
as proofes there made to make the sayd shipp and her ladeing the better appeare to be belonging
to dutch men subiects of the States of the United Provinces which
Notwithstanding the subiects of the King of Spaine doe deteyne the sayd
shipp and have sold and disposed of all or the greatest part of her
sayd ladeing as this deponent is by letters of advice from the sayd
Keene and others informed and verily beleeveth, And further to this
article hee cannot depose/
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