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the Skipper commanded to come aboard the said Mootham, he the said<br />
Skipper tooke his papers and writings and went aboard the said Captaine<br />
and this deponent went alonge with him, and comming aboard hee<br />
delivered the said writings to the said Captaine in this deponents<br />
sight and presence, and saith tht the next dat (they being still aboard) one John Johnson one of the said Moothams company<br />
who spake very good dutch read a writing aboard in ffrench which<br />
hee said was the Charter Partia[?a] of the said shipp the ''ffortuna[?a]'',<br />
and declared the effect thereof in dutch to this deponent and the<br />
said Skipper, saying that it ws for holland, And otherwise<br />
hee cannot as hee saith depose.
To the Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first hee saith hee can write and reade dutch<br />
but doth not understand ffrench, and that hee hath bin two voyages<br />
in ffrance, videlicet this and the other about two yeares since in<br />
a shipp of horne the name whereof hee remembreth not;<br />
and otherwise hee cannot depose saving as aforesaid.
To the second hee answereth that hee was neither partia nor witnes<br />
to the making of the said Charter parti[?a], nor ever read the same<br />
hee understanding not ffrench as aforesaid, And otherwise hee<br />
cannot answer saving as aforesaid.
To the third hee referreth himselfe to his foregoeing deposition and otherwise<br />
hee cannot depose.
To the fourth hee saith the said shipp the ''ffortun[?a]'' was taken<br />
on the coast of ffrance, going for haver da Grace.
Repeated before doctor Clarke.
Jan [?Johnson] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 23th of August 1651.
The claime of Jacob Copy of}<br />
Amsterdam for the lading of}<br />
wheate and rie in the shipp the}<br />
''hope'' of Amsterdam}<br />
Suckley dt [XXXXXX]
'''1us'''
'''Martin Cornelison Coman''' of Amsterdam<br />
Marriner Skipper of the said shipp the<br />
''hope'' of Amsterdam aged 40 yeares or<br />
thereabouts, sworne and examined.
To the first article of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth<br />
that the wheate and rie arlate taken and seized by Captaine<br />
Johnson and nowe in controversie was laden and put aboard the<br />
shipp the ''hope'' arlate at Or[X]y in Bretany by<br />
a ffrench Merchant dwelling (as hee said) at<br />
Nantes, to be thence transported to haver da Grace and there to be<br />
delivered. which hee knoweth being Skipper of the said shipp<br />
and receiving the said graine aboard her. And otherwise hee cannot<br />
depose.
To the second article hee saith and deposeth that the said shipp the<br />
''hope'' was at Rochell in ffrance freighted of his this deponent by<br />
a ffrenchman (whose name hee nowe remembreth not, but<br />
referreth himselfe to the bill of lading for the same) to goe thence<br />
to A[?nney] aforesaid and there take in the said corne and transporte<br />
and deliver it at haver da Grace aforesaid for his the said<br />
laders accompt And otherwise hee cannot depose, saving hee<br />
knoweth one John [XXXXX] a dutchman living as a factor at<br />
Nantes, who had noe hand in the said lading, that this deponent knoweth<br />
of, but with his name is used therein.
Toof, but with his name is used therein.
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