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The 29th of August 1655. [CENTRE HEADING]
… The 29th of August 1655. [CENTRE HEADING]
The Lord Protector against the shipp}<br />
the ''Hope'' of fflushing Anthony hubrechtson Master}
'''Rowe dt.'''
'''.j.'''
'''Anthony Hubrechtson''' of fflushing Mariner<br />
Master of the said shipp the ''Hope'' of fflushing<br />
aged 40 yeares or thereabouts sworne as in the<br />
acts of Court and examined upon certaine<br />
Interrogatories saith and deposeth as followeth,
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith and deposeth that the said shipp the ''Hope''<br />
is a new shipp and was lately built at Schedam in holland and that this is<br />
her first voyage, upon which hee saith shee departed from fflushing on the seaventh of<br />
July last new stile bound for Nantes, and saith shee belongeth to the port of fflushing,<br />
and that her owners dwell all there and were and are all subiects of the<br />
States of the United Netherland Provinces, and are by name Evert [?Gisling]<br />
Burgomaster; William Ver Brugg, Giles [?Runnburgh] daniel [?Pela], Jacob van horne, Adrian<br />
Pi;a, John [?Score], Carol Lalleere, the Widowe of Commandeur Bankier,<br />
John Van Oosen, Geleyn Scott, and one Abraham a broker (but his sirname<br />
this deponent remembreth not) which owners caused the said shipp to be built and by<br />
this deponents hands (who was to goe master of her) paid for such her building,<br />
and saith hee was constituted master by the said owners, who were and are natives<br />
of fflushing and have dwelt there all their lives, saving the said John<br />
Van Oosen who hath dwelt there from his youth, but was borne at<br />
Oosen in denmarke, and hee knoweth not but that Giles [?Runburgh] is of Middleborowe by birth,<br />
[?XXXX] the said shipp ''Hope'' was taken in the ffrench coast betwixt deepe and Saint Valery,
To the second hee saith the said shipp went from fflushing to Nantes un<br />
ballast, and carried noe goods thither, and hath bin in noe port or harbour<br />
from the said time of her departure from fflushing to the time of her<br />
seizure but Nantes, only in her outwards course of proceeding, meeting<br />
with contrary winde shee put into Torbay, till the winde served to<br />
proceede for Nantes, which hee knoweth being master of her.
To the third and fourth hee saith that the said shipp is laden with Banck<br />
fish, and that shee was freighted at Nantes by a dutch<br />
Broker named Br[?ager] to take in ffish and carry and deliver the same<br />
at haver de Grace, and that a ffrench man named de La houtsay laded the said fish at Nantes, but the<br />
name of the person to whom the said fish was to be delivered at haver<br />
de Grace hee remembreth not, his bill of lading and Charter partie<br />
being sent over land, but the said person that was to receive the said fish<br />
lived as hee was informed at Roane, but whether the said lading be<br />
belonging to him or to another or what countryman the owner thereof is<br />
hee knoweth not, nor can as hee saith tell what to beleeve therein, having<br />
as hee saith nothing to induce him to beleeve to whom it belongeth, only<br />
hee saith that hee this deponent and companie all dutch men and subiects<br />
of the said States have a thousand fish aboard for their owne accompt<br />
which was laden by them for their owne accompt. But for the said shipp<br />
hee is as hee saith well assured that the foresaid owners of fflushing<br />
are still the sole owners of her and that noe ffrench man or subiect of<br />
the ffrench king hath any interest therein. And further hee saith that<br />
the said fish laden as aforesaid, was all taken out of a fffrench shipp<br />
that came from the Banck, and put thence into the ''Hope'' in the River<br />
of nantes, And otherwise hee saith hee cannot depose, saving as<br />
aforesaid.
To the fifth hee saith that the said voyage was to end at haver de Grace<br />
and that the vintage approaching, hee this deponent was purposed<br />
to goe with his said shipp from haver de Grace directly to Bourdeaux to seake<br />
a freight, and saith that hee was to receive his freight for the present<br />
voyagefreight for the present<br />
voyage +
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