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