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To the 6th he saith That in or upon the last day of June last past the said<br />
ship, did sett saile with the said lading of Corne bound directly for<br />
fflushing and in her Course thitherwards comeing nere the Ile of Wight the<br />
Master intending to see if he could find any Company to fflushing<br />
was about the 13th day of July now instant taken and seised by<br />
Captaine Hurley in the shipp the ''Constant'' arlate, and brought into Portsmouth<br />
where the said shipp and ladeing have ever since bin<br />
detained to the grate preiudice and damage of the said [?WXXXx] whose bill of<br />
ladeing Coquett and other writings were alsoe seised by the said hurley and company<br />
and amongst them the letter written from the said [WhXXx] unto the said<br />
Master to follow the order of the said Basserada and Coppins his ffactors, and from<br />
them theire letters to him the said Master to goe to donlo[?n], all which said letter<br />
bills of ladeing and other writeings hee saith were taken att<br />
the time when the said shipp was seised, and beleeveth that the said Hurley hath<br />
the same, and hath heard so much from the skipper of the shipp And further he<br />
cannot depose./
To the 7th article he saith That after such time as the said shipp was brought<br />
into Portsmouth The said producent was imprisoned and put into an house and<br />
there kept as a close Prisoner, insomuch as he was denyed pen ink[?e] and paper<br />
to write his [??mind] to the Owners of the said shipp concerneing the takeing<br />
thereof, and that when he this deponent had written his letters to that<br />
purpose the same were interceoted and detained Whereby he saith the<br />
said producent was constrained to make his escape from Portsmouth and did come<br />
hither to make his claime to the said shipp and goods as aforesaid And further hee cannot depose
To the last he saith that his depositions aforesaid are true./
To the Interrogatories./. [CENTRE HEADING]
'''Smith dt.'''
To the first hee saith that he is Owner of one tun of the said wheate<br />
laden in the said shipp, And that if the said shipp were made prize it would<br />
bee one hundred fourescore and six Guilders losse and damage to him on<br />
his owne particuler interest in the said [XXXX], And otherwise negatively./
To the second hee saith that he hath knowne the producent these 14 or 15 yeares<br />
last past who is a dutchman borne in Tro[?vre] in Zelande, aged 23 yeares or<br />
thereabouts and a short thicke man and liveth and hath [?bine] in fflushing for these<br />
14 yeares or thereabouts, And lived {att} Trow[>re] before when hee was bbourne.
To the third hee saith that the shipp the ''Winter king'' did carry in her from holland<br />
hopps Hides wooll and blew factory for the Accompt of the producent and<br />
were laden att fflushing and ddischarged at Saint Mallows, and [?were XXXX] landed to such<br />
persons as bought the same of the said Master who received the money for them<br />
And otherwise hee knoweth not./
To the 4th he saith that he can write and rease written hand being dutch, and<br />
doth understand no language else but only a little of English and is a dutch[?man GUTTER]<br />
and subiect to the States of Zeland, And further negatively./
To the 5th he saith that the said Basserada Agent for the producent did freight<br />
the said shipp in ffrance att dowlan, [?wXXXXXX] the said shipp was taken, And that<br />
the Charterparty concerning the same was written in dutch, which he only saw but [XXX GUTTER]<br />
not reade the same, but saith that the producent was to pay the ffreight thereof<br />
if they had safely returned to [?fflushing], And further hee cannot answare
To the 6th he saith hee hath knowne the interrogate Bassara[X] these 7 yeares past and<br />
[?the GUTTER] yeares past and<br />
[?the GUTTER] +
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