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To the 8th hee saith, the shott interrate … To the 8th hee saith, the shott interrate was discharged by the Pylott<br />
aforesaid with the assistance of other frenchmen then aboard the said<br />
shipp, and that in this deponents sight and observation. And<br />
further cannot depose./
To the 9th Interrogatorie hee saith there was no opposition made by this deponent<br />
or companie against the entring of the french into the said shipp, this deponent<br />
taking them for friends, and not beleeving they would have<br />
used the violence predeposed, And otherwise negatively, saying the said<br />
french might well come aboard the said shipp without any such<br />
assistance as is interrate./
To the 10th hee answereth, That hee saw no great gunns ashoare<br />
when the said shipp ''Saint Peter'' was fastned to the rocks interrate
To the 11th hee saith, That hee this deponent being Master of the shipp and<br />
at the time interrate was with his owne shipps Companie for all or most<br />
part of the fight interrate in the forepart of the said shipp, And further<br />
referreth himselfe to his foregoeing deposition to the 5th article interrate./
To the 12th hee referreth himselfe to his foregoeing deposition, And further<br />
as to the particular valew of the plundered goods, hee cannot depose
Repeated before doctor Clerke./
[?Leyger ?Dirockson] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 19th day of January <u>1654:-</u> [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined upon the said Allegation:/
'''2us/:-'''
'''Thunis Jacobson''' of fflushing in Zeeland Mariner<br />
one of the Companie of the said shipp ''Saint Peter'' aged<br />
41. yeares or thereabouts a Witnes sworne and examined<br />
saith as followeth videlicet./
To the first and second articles of the said Allegation hee saith and deposeth<br />
That hee this deponent was one of the said shipp the ''Saint Peters'' Company<br />
when shee and her lading of wynes were seized by an Engish man of<br />
warr, whereof one Captaine Barnett was Commander and saith the said<br />
shipp then lay fastned with two roapes to the rocks of a little french<br />
Island (whose name hee knoweth not,) and there shee lay at an anchor<br />
And saith there came a french Pylott on board the said shipp neere<br />
Bourdeaux, who was to pyott the said shipp from thence to Pontreux<br />
in Brittanie, and the said Pylot was and remained aboard the shipp till a [?littlE GUTTER]<br />
before the said shipps seizure, and saith the said Pylot was sent aboard the said<br />
shipp at Bourdeaux by the Merchant who had laden the same (as this Deponent [?XX GUTTRT<br />
and there understood) and not by the allate Legier dirrickson the Master<br />
neither had the said Pylot any relation to the said master as one of the said<br />
shipps Companie, nor was hee esteemed or ever reputed as one of them, And<br />
further hee cannot depose.
To the third hee saith, That the said man of warr pursuing the said shipp the<br />
''Saint Peter'', and the said french Pylot perceiving their near apprehension [?they GUTTER]<br />
being neere to the said ffrench Island for the preservation of the Merh=chants ggoods<br />
called unto ffrenchmen ashoare, who came in two shallopps to [?XX GUTTER]<br />
shipp and towed her in close to the shoare where they fastned her unto [?some GUTTER]<br />
roapes. And having so done there came about thirty men aboard the [?said GUTTER]<br />
([?shipp GUTTER]?said GUTTER]<br />
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