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The 28th day of July 1657/

The affidavit of Walter John Senser Master}
of the shipp the King David touching the}
propriety of the sayd shipp her tackle}
apparrell and furniture}

Rp.

7. Walter Senser Mariner Master of the sayd
8. shipp the King David sworne before the right
9. worshippfull John Godolphin doctor of lawes one
10. of the Judges of the high Court of Admiralty
11. of England saith and deposeth,

12. That the sayd Shipp the King David (whereof hee this deponent was
13. and is Master) now rideing at Anchor in the River of
14. Roade of
15. Yarmouth Thames was and is a new built shipp and of the burthen of two
16. hundred Tonnes or thereabouts and was lately videlicet in the yeare one thousand sixe hundred fifty five built at Surdam in
17. holland and that William Scapes of Yarmouth hath of
18. his this deponents knowledge lately bought the same shipp and all her
19. tackle apparrell and furniture and masts sayles sayleyards Roapes
20. Anchors Cables, Gunnes Gunpowder Artillery tackle apparrell
21. and furniture and Cockboate to the sayd shipp belonging, for the use
22. of himselfe and partners therein, all English men
23. and subiects of this Commonwealth who now are the true and lawfull
24. Owners and Proprietors of the sayd shipp and her tackle and furniture
25. above declared. This hee the better knoweth being imployed by the
26. sayd William Scapes to buy the same in behalfe of him the sayd
27. William Scapes and his Partners.

28. Repeated before doctor Godolphin./

29. Walter Sensoes SIGNATURE, RH SIDE

31. The 24th day of July 1657/

John Tawley and others in the schedule annexed}
to the allegation mentioned Mariners of the Shipp}
the Recovery of which Joshua Barlett is Master}
against the sayd shipp and Master Suckley ffrancklin}

Examined upon an allegation and the
schedule therein mentioned given in the
22th of July aforesayd on behalfe of
the sayd Tawley and Company./

Rp. jus

41. Zacharie Welch of London yeoman aged twenty sixe
42. yeares or thereabouts a wittnes sworne and examined
43. saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet./

44. To the first second and third articles of the sayd allegation and to
45. the schedule in the sayd first article mentioned hee saith that hee this
46. deponent was a trader in the way of merchandize at the Barbados in the yeare one
47. thousand sixe hundred fifty sixe and that while this deponent continued
48. there the sayd shipp the Recoverie being arrived at the Barbados and
49. there having there delivered her ladeing and taken in there a ladeing of
50. sugar, Cotton, ginger and Tobaccoe to returne therewith to London this
51. deponent understanding the sayd shipp was bound from Barbados for
52. London did in the moneth of November 1656 aforesayd and about the
53. fower and twentieth of that moneth imbarque him selfe as a passenger
54. togeather with some certayne Casket of sugar which hee had to bee thense
55. transported for London on board the sayd shipp, at which tyme
56. and from thense untill the sayd shipps arrivall at London
57. the arlate Joshua Bartlet was Master and Commander of the sayd shipp
58. and had the Command of her as Master And the arlate John Tawley and
Christopher