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''Salvador'' and ''Saint George'' or any o … ''Salvador'' and ''Saint George'' or any of them at Sea at any time after the said<br />
departure of the said shipp ''Mercurius'' from Cadiz, nor did shee saile or was<br />
in Companie with them or any of them after their said departure from Cadiz<br />
nor was s[?XXXX] by or separated from them by any fowle weather happening in their<br />
said passage, for that the said shipps in their said passage had faire<br />
weather, and no such fowle or tempestuous weather whereby to separate them or any shipp from them which the<br />
premisses this deponent knoweth and declareth for a certaine trueth, for that hee<br />
this deponent was as aforesaid, a Mariner aboard the said shipp ''Saint George'' during the<br />
said voyage, passage, and at the time of seizure aforesaid. And further hee<br />
cannot depose./
To the 13th hee saith, That the shipp the ''Golden Sunne'' arlate (whereof the<br />
arlate Peter Tam was Master) did as this deponent heard at Cadiz<br />
depart from thence about five moneths before the<br />
departure thence of the said shipps ''Sampson'' ''Salvador'' and ''Saint George'' next<br />
before their said seizure, and saith That, so farr as this deponent remembreth<br />
the said shipp the ''Golden Sunn'' was departed thence about 2. or three moneths before the<br />
Plate fleete of Spaine arrived there from the West Indies in that yeare, The<br />
premisses hee deposeth being and remaining at Cadiz with the said shipp ''Saint''<br />
''George'', shortly after the time of the said ''Golden Sunns'' departure as aforesaid, and till and<br />
after the arrivall of the said Spanish plate fleete. And further to this article<br />
hee saith hee cannot depose./
Upon the rest of the articles hee is not examined by the producents direction./
To the Crosse Interrogatories./ [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first hee saith, hee this rendent is a Native of Norway, and being<br />
a Batchelor and a seafaring person hath had no fixed place of residence for<br />
all the time interrate. And otherwise negatively:-/
To the second hee saith hee is by profession a mariner and hath never been at<br />
Lubeck, but about 2. or three times at Amsterdam, and was last there about three<br />
yeares since where hee then remained about 3. weekes or a moneth, but did not<br />
then or ever before or since see the said shipp ''Sampson'' at Amsterdam:-/
To the 2. and 4th hee saith hee knoweth nothing thereof otherwise than negatively
To the 5th hee saith, That hee this rendent was never at Lubeck:-/
To the 6th hee saith hee never knewe the interrate Otto George before hee<br />
saw him at Cadiz with his said shipp the ''Sampson'' the Voyage in question, and saith<br />
hee was there accompted a Lubeck man. And further cannot depose./
To the 7th and 8th hee saith hee hath not deposed to the articles interrate./
To the 9th hee saith hee knoweth nothing thereof:-
To the 10th hee saith, That the place where the ''Sampson'' interrate was seized by<br />
the English was as directly in the common course to the Neatherlands, as to Ostend<br />
or dunquirke, as hee beleeveth./
To the 11th hee referreth to his precedent deposition./
To the 12th hee saith hee this rendent was not at dunkirke in the time interrate<br />
And otherwise saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot depose./
To the 13th hee saith hee hath not so deposed./
Repeated in Court./
[MARKE] [MARKE, RH SIDE]eated in Court./
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