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'''A.10.'''
The eleventh day of April 165 … '''A.10.'''
The eleventh day of April 1656.
A Busines of Examination of witnesses}<br />
in a matter of Ensurance on the}<br />
behalfe of hugh Salisbury of}<br />
Portsmouth merchant and others}<br />
touching a losse in the ''Christopher''}<br />
of Portsmouth Daniel Bradley}<br />
Master}
Examined upon certayne Interrogatories on the behalfe<br />
of the sayd hugh Salisbury and others.
'''Rp. 1.'''
'''John Harris''' of Wapping in the County of Middlessex<br />
Mariner late Boatswayne of the sayd shipp the<br />
''Christopher'' aged twenty nine yeares or thereabouts<br />
a witnesse sworne before the right Worshipfull John<br />
Godolphin Doctor of Lawes one of the Judges of the high<br />
Court of Admiralty, and examined saith and deposeth<br />
as followeth. videlicet.
To the first Interrogatorie, This deponent saith he did welll know the interrogat<br />
shipp called the ''Christopher'' of Portsmouth whereof Daniel Bradley<br />
was master in this her last voyage, and he was in her att Leghorne, and<br />
att Saint Remo being a place or port neer to Genoa, from whence<br />
she was bound for this Port of London, in which voyage he this deponent<br />
was Boatswayne in and aboard her. And otherwise he ćannot depose.
To the second Interrogatorie he saith, he doth know hugh Salisbury interrogat<br />
being a merchant of Portsmouth, who with others there living to the<br />
number of three of four (whose persons he knowes though he att present<br />
remembreth not their names) are generally reputed as and for the<br />
lawfull Owners and Proprietors of the sayd shipp her tackle and<br />
furniture. And otherwise, not knowing their particular shares in the<br />
same, he saith he cannot depose.
To the third Interrogatorie This deponent saith That the sayd shipp departed from<br />
Saint Remo neere Genoa in the month of december 1655 last past upon<br />
her sayd designed voyage, and in the prosecution of her such voyage<br />
being upon her Course she mett with a man of warr being an<br />
enemy vessell by whom she and her lading were taken and ćarryed<br />
into Shashune in Spayne and there made prize, And the Company<br />
of the sayd Man of warr that so seized the ''Christopher'' sayd they had<br />
formerly belonged to Brest in ffrance.[#]
[#] And that the name of their<br />
ffrigot was the ''Saint ffrancis''<br />
and the Captaines name<br />
Hayes. And the sayd seizure<br />
happened about the<br />
fifteenth day of Janu=<br />
ary 1655 last past<br />
about ten or twelve<br />
leagues off Scilly<br />
John Harris [SIGNATURE, LH MARGIN]
And he saith that the sayd<br />
Salisbury and Company were then the lawfull Owners of the sayd<br />
shipp as hee verily beleiveth. And that the sayd shipp ''Christopher''<br />
by meanes of the sayd seizure by the sayd Enemy shipp was and is<br />
wholly lost to her sayd Owners. The premisses hee deposeth being<br />
as aforesayd Boatswayne of the ''Christopher'', and aboard her when<br />
shee was so surprized. And otherwise hee ćannot depose.
John Harris [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] depose.
John Harris [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] +
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