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and that upon the breaking out of the sayd … and that upon the breaking out of the sayd warres he came<br />
for England his native Countrey, and happened to be here<br />
att London att such tyme as the three sylver shipps the<br />
''Sampson'' Otto George Master, the ''Salvador'' Christian Cloppenburgh<br />
master, and the ''Saint George'' John Martins dorpe master happened<br />
upon their voyage from Cadiz with their respective<br />
ladings of money plate and other goods to be seized by<br />
the shipps of this Commonwealth and brought into England<br />
which was and happened about two yeares agoe. And saith<br />
that soone after the sayd seizure, and in the moneth of<br />
November one thousand six hundred fifty two he had<br />
occasion to repair agayne into holland for the selling, and<br />
disposing of an house, and garden and some other things<br />
which he had att Roterdam aforesayd. And saith by vertue<br />
of his Oath that within the sayd moneth of November and<br />
within some little tyme after, he was att Rotterdam, Leyden<br />
delph and the Hague, and that in those places and elswhere<br />
in holland It was att that tyme commonly and generally<br />
talked of and reported, that the States of the united Provinces<br />
and their subiects had an exceeding great losse by reason<br />
of the seizure of the sayd shipps by the English and there<br />
was of this deponents sight and observation a generall<br />
and great lamenting in those places for the sayd losse.<br />
And he further more particularly saith That in or about<br />
the twentyeth day of November one thousand six hundred<br />
fifty two aforesayd new stile he went in Company of<br />
certayne dutchmen subjects of the sayd States travailing<br />
with them in the skute from delph to the Hague, and<br />
that they the sayd dutch amongst other matters fell into discourse<br />
about the takeing of the sayd three shipps by the English<br />
which had the plate and sylber in them, meaning and<br />
speaking of the sayd shipps ''Sampson'' ''Salvador'' and ''Saint Grorge''<br />
above mentioned, And in that discourse one of the sayd dutch<br />
men who was one of the Lords of delph and a Bewinthebber<br />
of the dutch East India Company did then and there in<br />
the presence and hearing of him this deponent confidently<br />
affirmes deponent confidently<br />
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