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The 3. day of January .1654/5:- [CENTRE HE … The 3. day of January .1654/5:- [CENTRE HEADING]
A busines of Assurance touching a Losse in}<br />
the ''hannah'' (whereof Thomas Tyman was Master)}
Examined upon Interrogatories on the behalfe of<br />
John Parker:-
'''Rp. jus/'''
'''Nicholas Moore''' of Limehouse in the parrish of<br />
Stepney and Countie of Middlesex Mariner aged 35<br />
yeares or thereabouts a Wittnes sworne before the Right Worshipfull [*]
[LH MARGIN]<br />
[*] William Clerke doctor of Lawes, one of the Judges of the}<br />
high Court of Admiraltie of England}
and examined<br />
saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet:-
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith, That hee this rendent hath well knowne<br />
the interrate John Parker for about five yeares last past, and saith<br />
that in the moneths of June, July August and September last past, the said<br />
John Parker being a Merchant of this Citie of London, was Owner and<br />
Proprietor of one fourth part of the shipp the ''hannah'' interrate (whereof<br />
the interrate Thomas Tyman was Master) and of one fourth part of her<br />
tackle apparrell, and furniture, and for and as such during all the time<br />
predeposed the said John Parker was generally reputed and taken. The<br />
premisses this deponent well knoweth, for that hee was and went<br />
Boateswaine of the said shipp the Voyage in Controversie, and heard<br />
both the Master and Companie thereof during all the said Voyage frequently<br />
acknowledge the proprietie predeposed, And saith, That this examinate<br />
having frequented with Mariners and Masters of shipps, and used the art<br />
of Navigation for twentie yeares last or thereabouts, to the best of<br />
his judgement doeth estimate the said fourth part of the said shipp ''hannah''<br />
with her furniture and provisions aboard her in the Voyage in Controversie<br />
to have been worth three hundred and fiftie pounds sterling or thereabouts.<br />
And further hee cannot depose./
To the second hee saith, That the said Vessell the ''hannah'' was within the<br />
time predeposed laden at Lisbone and ffaro in Portugall with Salt and<br />
some quantities of oyles to be brought to this Port of London, and saith That,<br />
upon the lading of the said salt and oyles, this rendent heard and observed<br />
both from the said Tyman the Master and the factors who laded the same<br />
That the interrate John Parker was Owner of one fourth of thes aid salt,<br />
and of a quantitie of the oyles, particularly of ten pipes of oyle being the last<br />
of the said shipps ladeing taken in at Pharo aforesaid, and that the<br />
said quarter part of salt, and some of the oyles in the said shipp, particularly the<br />
the (sic) ten pipes predeposed were laden and putt on board the said shipp for the<br />
accompt of the said John Parker, and saith that hee verily beleeveth that the<br />
said quarter part of salt consisting of about 100. moyes, and the said pipes<br />
of oyle were worth in all two hundred pounds sterling and upwards at or about such<br />
time as they were lost and perished in the sea in and aboard the said<br />
Vessell, which in her course for this Port of London with the said goods<br />
about the tenth of October last foundred and perished in the sea by<br />
stresse of weather about twenty five leagues from the Groyne in Biscay<br />
(thisrom the Groyne in Biscay<br />
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