Before the Most Noble and Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes, Het Huys Brandenburg, Frans de Clerck, master, Helleman Van Eykellenberg, of Schewlm, in the county of Mark, in the dominions of His Prussian Majesty, a natural-born subject of his said Majesty, a native of Schewlm aforesaid and a member of the Council of Commerce there, by patent from His Prussian Majesty and his said Majesty's consul of the Prussian nation for upwards of ten years past, especially appionted by his said Majesty to the states of Zealand, one of the United Provinces of Holland, resident at Flushing in Zealand and the true, lawful, and sole owner of fifteen sixteenth parts or shares of the said ship Het Huys Brandenburg and her cargo for and behalf of himself, as the true, lawful and sole owner and proprieter of fifteen sixteenth parts or shares thereof and for and on behalf of William Wenham, of Hastings, in the county of Sussex, merchant, a natural-born subject of our Sovereign Lord the Kings and now and for several years last past, resident at Hastings aforesaid, the true, lawful and sole owner and proprieter of the remaining sixteenth part of the said ship and her cargo, appellant, vs John Broom, commander of the private ship of war the Union, the Captor, respondent

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by Helleman Van Eykellenberg