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The 29th of November 1655.
The Lord Prote … The 29th of November 1655.
The Lord Protector against the shipp}<br />
the ''Camell''. Jacob Tyson master}
'''Suckley.}<br />
[?XXXX]} dt.'''
'''Jacob Tyson''' master of the said shipp<br />
the ''Camell'' aged 40 yeares or thereabouts<br />
sworne as in the acts of Court, saith<br />
and deposeth as followeth.
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith and deposeth that the said shipp the ''Camell''<br />
belongeth to the port of Amsterdam, and that John Brouwers and<br />
Isaac hermans both dutchmen and marchants and Inhabitants of<br />
Amsterdam and subiects of the Lords the States of the United Netherlands<br />
were and are the sole owners both of the said shipp and of the<br />
lading that was aboard her at the time of her seizure in question. And<br />
otherwise negatively.
To the second Interrogatorie hee deposeth that the said lading was put<br />
aboard the said shipp at Amsterdam by her said owners, and was to be<br />
transported to the Canary Ilands, whether the said shipp was bound, and<br />
saith shee came out of the Texel on the said voyage on the third of<br />
October last new stile, and afterwards was by contrary winde put into<br />
the Ile of Wight, afterwards into Torbay and lastly into Plimouth<br />
whether shee came on the fourth of this instant new stile.
To the third hee saith that hee had two briefs or writings aboard<br />
which concerned the said shipp, and hee had alsoe two bills of lading which<br />
hee did not remember but had forgotten them when he was at Plimouth<br />
examined, being in greate perplexitie and distraction through his being<br />
detained with his said shipp and goods, when as other shipps that came in<br />
thither with him were dischardged, and saith there were alsoe<br />
aboard this deponents seabrief, and passe port and last-brief, and<br />
some other papers and letters of small importance the particulars whereof<br />
hee remembreth not, but referreth himselfe to the same, being in the hands<br />
of the officers of this Commonwealth who seised the same. And saith<br />
there were not any papers made away or throwne overboard, nor was<br />
there any Charter partie for the voyage, the shipp sailing in her owners<br />
service.
To the fourth hee saith that hee was ordered by his said owners and imployers<br />
to deliver the said lading at Teneriff in the port of Santa Cruse<br />
to Nicholas Motelier, a Wallon by Nation, and a Subiect<br />
(for ought hee knoweth to the contrary) of the king of Spaine, And<br />
otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the fifth hee saith the foresaid owners bought the said shipp at<br />
fflushing in or about Aprill 1653, and in May following shee being<br />
brought thence to Amsterdam this deponent was thereby then constituted<br />
master of her, and ever since this deponent hath continued master and<br />
the said John Brouwers and Isaac hermans sole owners of the said<br />
vessell to this present, And otherwise cannot depose, hee not<br />
being present at such her buying.
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