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it is the very same shipp, which by the na … it is the very same shipp, which by the name of the ''ffortune<br />
of the Sea'' belonged to the arlate Philip Richaut and Compamy<br />
and which his this deponents sayd brother bought for them<br />
(as he hath predeposed) And further he cannot depose
To the last he saith his foregoeing deposition is true.
To the Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first Interrogatory he answereth, that he commeth to bee<br />
a wittnes by the meanes of Mr Philip Richaut, And<br />
that he is certaine of the identity of the vessell notwithstanding<br />
the diversity of the names interrate for that (as he hath<br />
predeposed) he went over in her as a passenger when she<br />
was and belonged unto the said Philip Richaut and Company<br />
and for that he hath very lately (since her being arrested)<br />
seene her And to the rest of the Interrogatory he answereth<br />
negatively.
To the second Interrogatory he knoweth not to answeare./
To the third Interrogatory he answereth that the aforenamed Abraham<br />
A Vanderhoven this Rendents brother did buy the said shipp<br />
at Ostend for the interrogated Philipp Richaut and Company<br />
And he saith that he knoweth not to answeare to the rest<br />
of the sayd Interrogatory.
Repeated before Doctor Godolphin./
John baptista Vander Boene [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 19th of March 1654. [CENTRE HEADING]
Touching a shott of a greate gunn}<br />
from the shipp the ''hope'' of hamborough}<br />
(Peter hammonson Backer master) as shee}<br />
was lying in the River of Thames.}
'''Rowe dt.'''
'''Peter Simonson''' of hamborough Mariner<br />
Boatswaine of the said shipp the ''hope''<br />
aged 30 yeares or thereabouts sworne in<br />
Court (as in the acts thereof) the 16th instant<br />
saith and deposeth by vertue of his oath.
That on Satturday the third of this instant March old stile,<br />
Mr Jacob Vanderla[?XX] and two or three other friends of the said master<br />
of the said shipp being on board the said shipp then lying neere the<br />
Armitage in the River of Thames, and being about to retourne and<br />
goe ashore, the master, Peter harmanson Barker, called his Gunner<br />
hance Bartles to make a gunn readie and willed him to see<br />
that all things were cleare, which order this deponent being present<br />
heard soe given to the said Gunner, and the said Gunner went accordingly<br />
to worke to make a Gunn readie betwixt deecks, in which space the<br />
master and his said friends were at breakefast in the masters<br />
cabbin And while they were soe at breakefast and before the master<br />
called or gave any order to the Gunner to fire; the said Gunn,<br />
whether fired by the Gunner of his owne accord or by accident hee<br />
knowethord or by accident hee<br />
knoweth +
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