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The sixth of May 1657, old style.
Touchin … The sixth of May 1657, old style.
Touching the ''ffortune''.
'''Rp.'''
'''Bertrand Dibarbore''' of London Merchant aged nine and<br />
twenty yeares or thereabouts sworne before the right Worshippfull Charles<br />
George Cock Esquire - one of the Judges of the<br />
high Court of the Admiraltie of England, saith and deposeth<br />
by vertue of his oath.
That whereas on the 28th of March last 1657, hee this deponent upon<br />
and according to ádvise by him received from his Correspondents at Paris<br />
John James ff[XXXX] and others did make affidavit in this Court touching the shipp called the ''ffortune''<br />
(ffernando Gerardo Love Commander) and her lading bound from<br />
Cadiz for in Spaine for Cartagena in the west Indies, (as in and by<br />
the said Affidavit or deposition remaining in the Registrie of this Court<br />
whereunto hee referreth him selfe more at large is to be seene) Nowe hee further deposeth that hee hath<br />
lately received advise from his said correspondents from Paris, that the<br />
said shipp the ''ffortune'' before her proceeding on the said voyage was cast<br />
away in the Bay of Cadiz by stresse of weather and storme, and that<br />
the goods that were put aboard her for account of the said ffo[XXX] and<br />
others mentioned in the foresaid deposition were saved out of her, and both<br />
they and such other goods as were intended to bee loaded in her for the said voyage<br />
were upon her casting away, laded and put aboard a certaine vessell<br />
named the ''Marriage'', bound on the same voyage for the same accounts, and<br />
that they have alsoe sent him with the said advise a factorie a declaration<br />
at her lading in the Spanish tongue, which being translated into English<br />
is as followeth, Mr John Pantalin and ffernando<br />
Geraldo, who doe goe imbarqued in the good shipp called the<br />
''Marriage'' of the burthen of one hundred and thirty tonns<br />
or thereabouts at present being and riding at Anchor in the Bay<br />
of Cadiz to depart and goe with the first good weather (which God<br />
shall send us) to the Port of Cartigena in the Indies. doesay<br />
although I the said John Pantalin doe goe as captaine of the<br />
said shipp and that shee was bought in my name, yet I have<br />
not any part or share in her for shee [XXXXX] is and doth belong<br />
unto Monsieur Charpentier and Rennault, and John Baptista<br />
John James and ffrancis fforna, Inhabitants of the City of<br />
Paris, and the said shipp was bought by the said ffrancis<br />
fforno (who at present is in this said City) by order of the afore=<br />
named Merchants of Paris to goe and make the said Voyage<br />
And wee doe likewise declare that all the Lading of the said shipp<br />
(whith Consisteth in the Merchandizes hereafter specified, consigned<br />
in the first place to me ffernando Geraldo, and in the second<br />
to mee John Pantalin) is and doth properly belong, and appertaine<br />
(untoy belong, and appertaine<br />
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