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or swore the same if hee should live and s … or swore the same if hee should live and should be thereto required or to the<br />
very same effect. And further deposeth that shee had bin maried to the<br />
said Josua Reeve for the space of 16 yeares together and upwards next<br />
before the death of him the said Josua, and thereby well knoweth that for<br />
15 yeeres together next before such his death hee was used and accustomed to<br />
goe to and againe betweene Amsterdam and London; and that for five yeares<br />
space and a halfe of the time aforesaid<br />
hee the said Josua lived in Amsterdam, whether this deponent<br />
beng his wife went severall times to him in that time,<br />
namely about thirteene yeares since hee went thether and<br />
dwellt there about foure yeares, and that hee came for England and lived<br />
here in London above two yeeres and a halfe, and then went and dwelt againe<br />
about a yeare and halfe at Amsterdam, And saith that hee said on his death<br />
bedd that the said shipp the ''Sampson'' was built there in that<br />
time of the said foure yeares of his first dwelling there. And otherwise shee<br />
cannot depose.
To the crosse Interrogatories in the fourth place<br />
ministred [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first shee saith that shee was never aboard the shipp the ''Sampson''<br />
aforesaid, but about a weeke before Michaelmas last was twelve moneth<br />
shee being with her said husband ashore at Blackwall, hee there pointed<br />
to a shipp lying in the River, and said to this deponent that that shipp was<br />
built in Amsterdam, or els said, that that is one of the shipps that belong<br />
to Amsterdam, but which of those two expressions hee used shee remembreth<br />
not as shee saith, nor doth shee remember that hee named the shipp hee<br />
soe pointed at.
To the second shee saith that the said Josua Reeve her late husband departed this life about<br />
eleaven dayes after Michaellmas last was a twelve moneth, and saith shee<br />
was frequently present with him in the time of his sicknesse and even<br />
at the time of his expiring and death.
To the third shee saith shee doth not knowe howe longe the said shipp<br />
''Sampson'' hath bin in the River of Thames.
To the fourth shee saith that it was about three or foure dayes before<br />
his death that hee the said Josua said and affirmed that the said shipp<br />
''Sampson'' was built at Amsterdam as aforesaid.
To the fifth shee saith shee did not see the said Josua leave any note<br />
touching the said shipp, nor knoweth of any that hee made or caused to<br />
be made, And otherwise shee cannot depose.
To the sixth shee can reade written hand, but cannot write as shee<br />
saith.
To the seaventh and eighth shee referreth herselfe to her foregoeing deposition<br />
and saith shee doth not knowe that ever shee sawe the shipp the<br />
''Sampson'' (in question) And otherwise saving as aforesaid shee cannot depose
To the nineth shee saith that for theise 6 yeares last shee hath lived in<br />
the parish of Saint Buttolphs Algate, first for 3 yeares in houndsditch and then three<br />
yeares or thereabouts on the Minories, where shee nowe dwelleth over against the<br />
fountaine taverne, and before shee came to live in hounsditch shee dwelt in<br />
Bishopsgateitch shee dwelt in<br />
Bishopsgate +
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