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Contains knowledge and continually find th … Contains knowledge and continually find the sayd Antonia du Cuyper<br />
and John Passuant were and are Citizens Inhabitants and subjects<br />
and each and every of them was and is a Citizen Inhabitant and <br />
subject of the free City and State of Dantzyck and so accounted.<br />
and are not nor were not eyther of them is or ever was that this<br />
deponent knoweth beleiveth or hath heard subiect to the States of the<br />
United Provinces, of the ffrench King, or of any Prince or State<br />
in histility with this Commonwealth of England nor so accounted. And <br />
otherwise he cannot depose.
To the last hee saith his depositions are true.
To the Crosse Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING]
To the .1. he saith he is master of the ''young Boer'' and so hath bene for.<br />
about 2 yeares and an halfe and came first aboard her att Amsterdam<br />
and was in her att the tyme of seizure.
To the .2. [he] [saith] he knoweth both the Parties [interrogated] and hath knowne<br />
[them] 13. yeares and upwards respectively, and saith by [common] [repute]<br />
they are [Dantzyckers] borne and [there] [have] lived all their tyme, and <br />
for 13 yeares [past] of [this] deponents knowledge, and [there] [have] their<br />
[howses] wives children and familyes, and saith Antonio de Caypers<br />
[howse] is att the Corner of the [?Haye] street by the water side in Dantzyck<br />
and the howse of John [Passuant] is [neere] to the [?Parle] Church or the <br />
G[reat] Church of Dantzyck.
To the [3.] [he] [saith] he hath knowne the sayd shipp the ''young Boer'' [three]<br />
yeares or thereabouts and saith she was built att Edam in Holland about<br />
3 yeares at the Co[sts] of an Inhabitant of [Edam] whose name [he] [remembreth]<br />
not And saith [this] deponent did buy the sayd [2. 16th] [parts] of the ''young'' <br />
''Boer'' now in question att [Amsterdam] on the behalfe of the sayd [present] Owners<br />
and [saith] [there] [was] not nor any bill of sale for the same [made] [nor] [eyther]<br />
of [them], and [hath] fully satisfyed the [rest] of [this] [Interrogatory] in [his]<br />
foregoeing deposition [whereto] [he] [referrs] [himselfe].
To the 4 and [5.] [he] [referreth] himselfe to said foregoeing depositions<br />
wherein he hath [declared] the whole [truth] so farr as he knoweth and<br />
otherwise negatively.
To the .6. [he] [saith] he is a native and inhabitant of Skelling being an<br />
Island under the jurisdiction of the States Generall of the united <br />
Provinces and otherwise negatively.
To the .7. [he] [saith] he knoweth nothing thereof.
To the .8. [he] [saith] the sayd shipp [began] her outward voyage in May last<br />
from the Port of [Amsterdam], and saith [that] the sayd Antonio [?de] Cuyper<br />
and John [Passuant] did by their respective [factors] att [Amsterdam] contribute<br />
towards the then setting forth of the sayd shipp and saith [he][doth]<br />
not know [beleive] or [hath] [heard] [that] [since] [June] 1651. the sayd Antonio<br />
[?de] Cuyper and John [Passuant] [have] [reconveyed] or sold [agayne] [the] <br />
[sayd] two sixteenth [parts] of the sayd shipp to the sayd John [?XXXson] or any <br />
[other] [person] [whatsoever], and otherwise [cannot] [depose].
Sam [Delaplace] [SIGNATURE, LH SIDE]
Jacob [Cornelison] [?XXXX] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
Repeated before the Judges in CourtSIDE]
Repeated before the Judges in Court +
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