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Transcription

this deponent by letters of advice from his Correspondent at delfe
to whome the goods by this deponent soe laden aboard her were
consigned to bee delivered was informed) the sayd shipp mett with
a violent storme at sea, and was therby driven into Ostend and
was there (notwithstanding her being a dutch shipp belonging to subiects
of the United Provinces) seized both shee and her ladeing by the subiects
of the King of Spaine, and there kept, and the Master of her put
to great trouble and charge to gett her and her lading cleered, and
further to this article he cannot depose./

To the 4th 5th and 6th articles of the sayd allegation hee saith hee
cannot depose

To the 7th hee cannot depose./

To last hee saith his foregoing deposition is true/

To the Interrogatories [CENTRE HEADING]

To the first Interrogatorie hee saith hee cometh to testifie at the request
of Mr Joas Everson Merchant of London, and that hee knoweth none
of the parties litigant nor where the da Souzas Interrogate live nor
whose subiects they are nor is any Correspondent of theirs nor never
sawe them that hee knoweth of./

To the 2 hee saith hee is a Londoner borne And to the rest of the
Interrogatorie hee answereth negatively./

To the 3 hee saith hee was never in holland nor fflanders, And
saith that soone after the last peace concluded betwixt the King of
Spaine and the States of the United Provinces hee did (to the best of
his now remembrance) see a printed paper in dutch containeing
the articles agreed upon betweene the sayd King and the sayd States
touching the sayd Peace, wherein was conteyned (to his now best
remembrance) as article that noe shipps of warr belonging to the
King of Spaine or his subiects should molest search or surprize any
shipps belonging to the States of the United Provinces or their subiects
though bound to, or comming from, any port or place in hostility
with the King of Spaine, And further cannot depose for that hee was
never in holland nor fflanders./

To the 4th hee answereth negatively. being never aboard any shipp taken
at sea./

To the last hee saith hee was never in holland or fflanders, but hath
heere in England (to the best of his now remembrance) seene a printed article to the
effect aforesayd and further cannot answere./

Repeated before doctor Godolphin/

Henry Hickford [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]