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+20th die decembris 1660: [CENTRE HEADING]

Sup Allefatione pred Examinatus./

Rp. 3us.

Guilielmus Montgomery de Kingstreete
Westminster annos agens 30 aut de circiter testis
productus et Inratus dicit et deponit provt sequitur./.

Ad 1um arlum dictae Allegationus dicit et deponit that for and
during all the Yeere 1659: there was warr and hostility used
and practised at sea betweene the State Generall of the United
Provincers and the King of Sweden, and their respective subjects
and the said King of Sweden did in the said Yeere 1659 give
Comissions to his Subjects and others that would serve
under him, to take the ships and Goods of the said States
Generall and their Subjects, And this hee saith is publique
and Notorious.

Ad 2um, 3um, 4um et 5um arlos dicta Allons dicit that hee this deponent
came on board the ship the Michael arlate at
Edinborowe in or neere about the moneth of December
1659: to serve in her as one of her Company and at such his
coming onboard hee was informed that the sayd
ship lately came from Stockholme, and was set out from
thence by Swedes with Comission from the King of Sweden
to take the Ships and goods of the Dutch which Comission this deponent sawe at, and severall times after
his said Coming aboard the said sship, And saith that the said
ship proceeding to sea with the said Comission under conduct
of the said Weaver this deponent and Company did meete
with and seize on the 9th day of March last or thereabouts
a certaine Dutch fflyboate called the Osama kirke, whereof
one Evert Cornelis was Master and her Lading, and the said
Weaver intended to carry her to some port or place in
Sweden there to have proceeded against her and her Lading as a
Prize and as belonging to the Subjects of the said States
and to that end the said Weaver put about fourteene
of his men onboard her, but shee proving extreame
leaky and shee being in danger of perishing in the sea
thereby: shee was put into Scilly where shee and alsoe
the Michael harboured within his Majestyes Chamber and
within Comand of the Castle and fforts there where the
said Weaver intened to have stopped the Leake or Leakes
of the said ship Osama kirke, but in regard the same could
not be come at (shee being laden) without unlading part of her
Goods, the said Weaver caused part of the same To be taken
out of her and put onboard the Michael intending as hee [?XXX]
and as this deponent beleeveth to have put the same againe on board
the Osama kirke after her Leake or Leakes were stopped and to carrie
her and her lading to some port or place in Sweden to proceede against
her as aforesaid And the Premisses hee deposeth being one of the Company
of the Michael when shee so seized the Osama kirke and goeing in her in Company
of the Osama kirke to Scilly as aforesaid./