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25th Septembris 1666 [CENTRE HEADING]
Con … 25th Septembris 1666 [CENTRE HEADING]
Contra navam the ''Sampson'')<br />
of Stetin in Pomerania)
'''Joachimus Smit''' civitatis Stetis in Pomerania in XXXX<br />
Suecia Nauta, [?Navart] his dictos navis, annos natus 62 aut<br />
circiter testis in propario examinatus deponit ut sequitur, videlicet
That his said shipp was built at Stetin and is about 20 yeares old, and<br />
hath alwaies belonged to that port, and saith that hee this deponent hath bin<br />
master of her for two yeares, and that Godfrey [?Swelling?Xever] is owner of<br />
halfe the shipp, Peter May a quarter parte and [?hammot] [?Trosse] a widow a quarter<br />
part, and are all Inhabitants and natives of Stetin and Subiects of the king<br />
of Sweden, and that now Hollander, Dane or ffrench hath any share therein. And<br />
saith that in June last there was with his said shipp at Amsterdam whether hee<br />
had carried dantz Rie for dantzickers accounts) and was then freighted by a dane<br />
named hanse Crist to goe to Longsound in Norway to fetch a cargo of deales<br />
and Spanns for Amsterdam, which voyage the said hanse went him and<br />
bought the said goods, and (the said shipp returning therewith to Amsterdam)<br />
the said hanse there sold them upon his owne accompt and then this deponents<br />
said owner having sent for and ordered his returne home to Stetin, hee<br />
was returning in ballast, and comming in in such his returne to the [?fflie] at<br />
such time as the English set the ships there lying on fire) hee hardly escaping<br />
burning among them, was taken with his said shipp by the English fleet and<br />
sent to harwich where his shipp now lyeth. And saith his company were seaven<br />
man and a boy all Easterlings, videlicet his stiersman of Bremes, and a<br />
common man of Stralsund, and all the rest Stetinners. And that his<br />
mate fearing to be burned, forsooke him and fledd in his boate, and left him<br />
alone as this shipp when hee was taken, And that his papers were delivered<br />
upon [?XXXXX], and none made away.
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