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yeelded fourtie five shillings per barrell one with another, and
that there were alsoe taken awaya nd wanting by meanes of the said
seizure to the valew of twenty pounds sterling in silkes, sweet meates
rice and paper, and of the said shipps store tackle, furniture and
appurtenance to the valew of two hundred and fiftie pounds sixteene shillings and six pence sterling
And further saith that the said proprietors in the oiles that were brought
home (being neare thirtie tonnes) suffered losse and dammage to the summe
of five or six pounds on each of the said tonnes by dammage and
deterioration of the oiles by the said detention and losse of market, and the
said anchovas which were brought home being twenty nine barrells were
dammaged and deteriorated one halfe of what they were worth at the
time of their seizure, which dammage came by the said seizure and losse
of market of the said anchovas that were brought home, And lastly that
the said shipp lay six weekes under the said seizure and restraint, and that
her owners aforesaid were at greate charges of sute and meanes used
for recovery of the aid shipp and goods at Cadiz, and in fitting her out
[?thence] and furnishing with provisions in stead of what was [?wanting]
and taken away upon and by meanes of the said seizure and for
victualls for the companie in that space, amounting in all to the
summe of ninetie pounds sterling in his estimation, comprizing [?XXX ?XXX]
the shipps lying still and want of imployment, The premisses hee
deposeth for the reasons aforesaid going the said voyage, and seeing the
premisses soe donne. And further hee cannot depose.

To the eighth hee saith that there was pease and amitie made
and established betweene this Commonwealth and the States of
the United Netherlands before the said time of the said seizure
And referreth himselfe to the Articles of the said Pease for
the [?XXX] thereof, And further cannot depose.

To the last hee saith his foregoing deposition is true.

John his[?coff] [SIGNATURE. RH SIDE]

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The 9th of June 1658. [CENTRE HEADING]

On the behalfe of Major}
George Walters, and}
Company touching the}
seizure of the John}
Baptista and her Lading}
at the Barbado's}

Rp.

1

John Peterson ferwer of Rijpe in holland Mariner
aged 32 yeares or thereabouts sworne as in the
acts of Court and examined upon certaine Interrogatories
ministred on the behalfe of the said Walters and
others, saith as followeth by vertue of his oath.

To the first Interrogatorie hee saith and deposeth that hee
wel knoweth the shipp the John Baptista of London and
hath soe donne for theise eight monethes last past,
and saith the producents Major George Walters
and companie were and are commonly accounted owners
of the said shipp and subiects of this Commonwealth. And
further hee cannot depose.

To the second hee saith that the said shipp the John Baptista
was in her last voyage bound for the Barbada's and thence for
Amsterdam