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The same day [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined up … The same day [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined upon the said Interrogatories./
'''6us./'''
'''Francis Laurenson''' of Stockholme in<br />
Sweden mariner aged 19 yeares or thereabouts<br />
sworne and examined saith as followeth videlicet.
To the first Interrogatorie he saith hee well knoweth the shipp the ''Hawke''<br />
interrate, whereof this deponent was Boateswaine, and saith shee belonged<br />
to the Port of Stockholme, and to the Swedish salt Companie there resideing<br />
by whose order shee was first built, and since lately altered and repaired<br />
at Westerwick in Sweden, as this deponent hath there credibly heard<br />
and verily beleeveth And otherwise cannot depose:/
To the second hee saith hee cannot otherwise depose, then as hee hath<br />
predeposed, and saw no moneys payd for the said shipp or any part thereof
To the third hee saith hee beleeveth the Master interrate is a Hollander<br />
borne, and saith that hee is now a Burger and Shipp master of Stockholme, and<br />
that hee this deponent was borne in Holland, but hath lived ever since his<br />
infancie at Stockholme in Sweden, and that hee and the said master are Subjects<br />
of the Queene of Sweden, and the rest of the said shipps Companie are Swedes<br />
except three Hollanders and two dane. And further cannot depose:-/
To the 4.th hee saith hee beleeveth that the said Swedish Salt Companie the<br />
reputed Owner of the shipp aforesaid doe live at Stockholme in Sweden, And<br />
further cannot depose:-/
To the 5.th hee saith the said shipp is laden with Iron Copper and bulletts<br />
which were laden at Stockholme about 8. weekes since to be transported to<br />
Hamburgh, and there to be delivered, this deponent having helped to lade the<br />
same, and being hired by the said Master expressely to saile with him to Hamburgh<br />
And otherwise hee cannot depose:-/
To the 6:th hee saith hee knoweth nothing at all thereof:/
To the 7.th hee saith he never was in ffrance, but hath bin at Amsterdam in<br />
a Swedish shipp about 9. yeares since, And otherwise hee cannot depose:-
To the 8:th hee saith hee was hired by the said Master upon a voyage<br />
from Stockholme to Hamburgh as aforesaid, and from thence to returne to<br />
Stockholme where the voyage was to end, where this deponent according to<br />
agreement was to receive 18. rixdollers from the said Master for the whole Voyage,<br />
upon his returne thither. And further deposeth not.
To the 9:th hee saith there were no Holland, but onely two Swedish Colors<br />
aboard the said shipp, which hee saith was taken upon the open seas neere the<br />
Riff of Jutland by Captaine Welsh Commander of an English private man<br />
of warr, but this deponent knoweth not of any Commission hee had. And<br />
further cannot depose:-/
[?frans ?XXXX] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
Repeated before Doctor Clarke and<br />
Doctor Godolphin:-/Clarke and<br />
Doctor Godolphin:-/ +
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