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losse and dammage in the seizure of the sa … losse and dammage in the seizure of the said ship and hindering<br />
the Voyage, and detaining of the said ship to the summe or<br />
Vallue of Eleaven Hundred Pounds Sterling or thereabouts And<br />
further deposeth not./:
To the 10.th hee saith that hee this Deponent hath heard one Mr Perry<br />
a ffeather seller in this City say the foresaid ship called the<br />
''Charles'' belonged to him, and one Morgan Jones. and further<br />
hee deposeth not:/:
To the last hee saith that the foresaid James Bogle, John Walkinshaw<br />
ffrederick Hamilton, Robert Ray, Robert Anderson, Robert Kinins<br />
Hugh Benny, Thomas Knox, and John Cauldwall, are all Merchants<br />
of Glascoe, and all Scotchmen, and Subjects of the King of England<br />
Scotland ffrance and Ireland et cetera and for such they are well knowne, and accounted to bee,. This<br />
Deponent having knowne them all, ever since hee could remember<br />
being borne at Glascoe./:
To the Interrogatories./: [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first (it being done as required) hee saith hee is of the age<br />
of 22 yeeres, and is a Merchant by profession, and Liveth at Glascoe<br />
And saith hee is not of Kin to any of the foresaid Partyes, and<br />
expects to receive nothing for his Testimony herein./:
To the second hee saith hee never was in Holland but once and<br />
staid there only about seaven weekes. And saith the foresaid Hart<br />
is a Scotchman borne at ffalkirke as this Deponent hath bin Credibly<br />
Informed, and the Interrate Robert Thomson is an Englishman<br />
borne in Dorsetshire as this Deponent hath bin likewise Informed<br />
And saith that their wives liveth at Rotterdam, and there the said<br />
Hart and Thompson reside sometimes as this Deponent beleeveth, and<br />
hee hath heard that they are ffree Denizans of Rotterdam.<br />
And saith that both the said ship the ''Hope'', and the Interrate<br />
ship the ''Golden Cock'', belong to Glawscoe and the forenamed Persons<br />
are Owners f the ''hope'', but hee doth not knowe where or whom shee<br />
was bought, nor for what, nor where built, And saith that John<br />
Anderson senior John Anderson younger, Ninian Anderson and hee<br />
this Deponent are the true lawfull owners of the said ship ''Golden''<br />
''Cock'', and this Deponentand the said Ninian Anderson bought her at Rotterdam on the sixth of July last<br />
of on (sic) Peter De Hance, or one gaving some such name, and this Deponent<br />
with his owne hands then and there paid Eighteene hundred Guilders<br />
for the said ship, shee then lying at Rotterdam, and saith the said Ninian<br />
Anderson one Peter Pa[?e]s notary Publique and one Hugh Nesbit of Glascoe and<br />
some others were oresent, and sawe this Deponent pay the said money<br />
to the said Party of whom hee bought her, but this Deponent doth not<br />
knowe where shee was built, but beleeveth shee was built in Holland,<br />
and further cannot Answer./
To the 3rd hee saith that on or about the 20th of July last this Deponent sent<br />
the said ship ''Cock'' from Rotterdam to Glascoe, with a Lading of Iron<br />
Mader, Starch, fruits, Sugar, Deales and wine for account of John<br />
Anderson the elder and Ninian Anderson, and this Deponent and the greatest<br />
part of the the said Lading was sold upon trust at Glascoe and the rest for ready<br />
moneye and the rest for ready<br />
money +
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