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''Saint John Baptist'' and of her tackle a … ''Saint John Baptist'' and of her tackle and furniture and for such commonly<br />
accounted and reputed, and bought her of this State at the Prize office about<br />
three yeeres since, and constituted this deponent then master of her, who hath<br />
bin master of her ever since, and ever since sailed her under and in the immediate<br />
imployment of the said Mr Lucie, saving one voyage wherein shee was part<br />
freighted by other English to goe to hull, and saith hee this deponent was<br />
specally acquainted with such the said Mr Lucies buying her of this State, to<br />
which shee was adiudged prize being taken upon the hollanders in time of that<br />
warr with them.
To the second article hee saith that in or about ffebruary last the said luke<br />
Lucie caused the said shipp to be laden with salt at Rochell for Riga, whither<br />
shee went and carried the same, and there delivered it for his account, and<br />
there harman Backer who received the same reloaded the said shipp with<br />
clapwood and other timber and wood for the same account for this port, but<br />
hee gave this deponent order that hee should at sea (meeting with any<br />
Ostenders or dunkirkers) affirme that hee was bound for Rochell to deliver,<br />
and to this purpose gave this deponent a letter and bill of lading directed<br />
to ffrancis Clauson a merchant of Rochell, and mentioning the said goods to be<br />
for his the said harmans owne account, and this was soe donne to prevent<br />
seizure by the dunkirkers or Ostenders, and was donne by order of the<br />
said Mr Lucie, signified in a letter to the said harman Barker, and by him<br />
shewed to this deponent, but when this deponent should be come with the<br />
said shipp and goods to the downes, hee was ordered to run in for this<br />
port, as hee saith it was his purpose to have donne, being bound thether<br />
and to noe other place to deliver the said goods.
To the third hee saith that in his course comming betwixt Callice and dover the<br />
hee was about monday last was seavenight met with by the<br />
''dartmouth frigot'' in the immediat service of this Commonwealth, at which<br />
time the ''John Baptiste'' was six or seaven leagues past the course for Ostend and dunkirke,<br />
and was standing towards the coast of Callice because the winde was westerly<br />
and the tide of flood against her turning in for this river, running with<br />
the next tide of ebb to stand in for the same, and saith hee kept soe much the<br />
longer onwards on the ffrench coast, to avoide the surprize of any dunkerker<br />
or Ostender of his being bound for this port, and this hee saith was and<br />
is the very truth.
To the Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first second and third hee saith that the said mr Lucie having so bought<br />
the said shipp here about three yeeres since, put her out hence under the<br />
conduct of this deponent in ballast and five or six hogsheads of goods for<br />
Rochell, and it being in the time of the warrs with the Hollanders from<br />
when shee had bin taken, this deponent for the better freeing her from them<br />
sailed her to dunquirke, and there came to an anchor, having the oportunitie<br />
of a convoy thither, and soe having bin upon the king of Spaines ground,<br />
and thereby freed from the hollanders pretence unto her, had sailed her<br />
across for Rochell in ballast, and there received her lading of salt for the<br />
said mr Lucies account for this port, and that in her course hetherward<br />
shee was met with by a shipp of warr of this Commonwealth and<br />
brought in under pretence of prize, but being cleared by mr Lucie to<br />
whom both shipp and lading belonged, and the said salt being here by him<br />
received, shee was by him here let to freight for two<br />
parts<br />
to two English merchants and the third part hee freighted or kept<br />
to hist hee freighted or kept<br />
to his +
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