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Transcription

The 15th of December 1660:/.

Touching the Elizabeth}
aforesaid John Stone [XX]}

vide jus in A2:

Rp. 2us.

Maurice Kingwell Lieutenant Colonel
of a Regiment of ffoote in Service of his Majesty
in the Garrison of Dunkirk aged 40 yeares [?or GUTTER]
thereabouts, sworne before ye right word. [?Read GUTTER]
befoure[?] Dr. of Lawes Judge of the High Court [?of GUTTER]
the Admiralty saith and deposeth as followeth [XXX GUTTER]

That in about the month of ffebruary 1658 the ship
or vessel called the Elizabeth of Dunkirke, John Stone [XX GUTTER]
departing from Dunkirke for this part of London was
taken and seized with her Lading (as hee hath bin [XXX GUTTER]
Informed) by two Sloopes of Ostend, and by them
Carried into Ostend, and hid, saith that at the time of the
said vessells departing from Dunkirke, and at her said
seizure, this deponents Captaine Nathaniel Cobham, [?Captaine GUTTER]
Giles, and the said John Stone, and alsoe one Lieutenant Bnomming[?] [XXX GUTTER]
(which said Bnomming bought a part of him the said
Cobham as the said Dobham declared to this deponent) were [?the GUTTER]
true and lawfull Owners of their [?XX] soe commonly [?accounted GUTTER]
And saith that the said Vessell being Dunkirke and
belonging to the King of Spaine or his subjects when the
said Towne of Dunkirk was taken by the English this
the said Cobham, Giles and Stone bought her of the Lord
Lochard at the rate shee was appraised at, and after [?they GUTTER]
had bought her they new rigged her and fit her out
to sea, and made a voyage with her before the voyage
in which shee was seized, And lastly saith that all the said
Owners are English and Subjects of this Kingdome and
all (Saving the said Stone) Commission Officers under his
Majesty at his Garrison of Dunkirke./

Mau: Kingwell [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]