| Transcription
|
To the second hee saith hee doth not know … To the second hee saith hee doth not know the parties interrogated<br />
(being the producents) nor any of them, and otherwise hee cannot answer
To the third hee saith hee hath not knowne the said Peter Pollart<br />
(but only this voyage whereiin hee met him at Rochell. And<br />
other wise hee cannot answer saving as aforesaid.
To the fourth hee saith hee saw and was often in company with<br />
the said Peter in Rochell, and there made the said Charter partie<br />
with him, and that the said Peter did not come aboard the said<br />
shipp the ''Saw Mill'' with the said goods him selfe, but sent them<br />
aboard the wine in barkes and the bacon in a sloop, by persons<br />
that hee imployed therein, as is usuall in such cases, hee himselfe abiding<br />
at Rochell, and giving order for the said lading, after that the Charter<br />
partie was made and when the said wines and bacon were laden this<br />
deponent leaving his [?Mariners] neare Rochell, went himselfe<br />
to Rochell and gave the said Pollart an accompt of the receipt of the<br />
said wines and bacon, and there signed the said bills, and soe retourned<br />
to his shipp and set saile.
To the fifth hee saith that the said goods were bought up in the countrey as<br />
hee was informed, but hee was not present at the buying or paying for the<br />
same or any part thereof. And otherwise hee cannot answer.
To the sixth hee saith hee signed the said three bills of lading upon the<br />
very day (as hee beleeveth) of the date thereof, and that the same<br />
are reall and not colourable, and soe signed them at Rochell as<br />
aforesaid. And saith hee signed alsoe a colourable or fictitioys<br />
bill for the said goods as for account of John da Swart, to be<br />
delivered to him at Amsterdam, which hee saith was donne to avoide<br />
seizure by the Spaniards, fflandrians or other subiects of the king of<br />
Spaine, to which end hee brought the said colourable bill in the shipp,<br />
and the same amongst the other papers that were aboard came to<br />
the hands of the said Captaine Basket upon the seizure.
To the 7th negatively, referring himselfe to his foregoeing deposition.
To the 8th hee cannot answer.
To the 9th hee saith that the weather being soe fowle and darke<br />
as aforesaid; and that hee had overshot his port and knew not well<br />
where hee was with his shipp, hee at last discerned the land and<br />
towne of Ostend, and then knowing where hee was, hee presently<br />
stood off for fflushing, intending there to shelter as aforesaid till<br />
the winde and weather served to goe to Callice, but some English<br />
shipps that lay before Ostend seeing him soe stand off, the said<br />
shipp commanded by Captaine Basket stood after him, as it<br />
afterwards seemed, to take him; this deponent and<br />
company not thinking that hee soe intended, but meant alsoe to<br />
goe to fflushing, and that if they had thought hee would have staid<br />
th[?em], they could have run with ease [?from] and got into fflushing<br />
with their said shipp and goods, before hee could have fetcht them up,<br />
And saith this deponent and company nor any of them had not any thought<br />
or meaning of goeing into Ostend with their said shipp to deliver their<br />
goods there or otherwise.
To the 10th hee saith hee did not see the English co[?u]lours out upon<br />
the said English shipp, but assoone as shee shot a gun, the ''Saw Mill''<br />
struck saile.
To the 11th hee saith that the said shipp ''Saw Mill'' was bought of the<br />
interrogated B[?ondwin] van Bo[XXXX] of Ostend about 26 weekes before the<br />
saidbout 26 weekes before the<br />
said +
|
