'''TNA''' PROB PROB 11/376/400 Will of John Cooke of Whitechapel London, Middlesex 26 June 1684
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The first of June 1657. Exámined upon the foresaid allegation. On the behalfe of the fore said Silvester} ánd others. touching the ''ffortune''.} '''Rp. 6.us''' '''John Cooke''' of the parish of White Chappell London Merchant, aged 36 yeeres or thereabouts sworne and exámined. To the eighth árticle of the said allegation (upon which alone hee is by direction of the producent exámined) hee saith and deposeth That in or about August last past hee this deponent received a letre from his correspondent liveing in Amsterdam and these dated, purporting (amongst other things) and adviseing that if there were any shipps on the coast of Guiney wherein this deponent or any friend of his had any interest, they should doe well to give them notice that there were two shipps designed from Amsterdam for those coasts, and that it was designed to take English there, and that they could there meete withall. And further that is the owners of the said two ships dwelt in Amsterdam and Zealand as the common report alsoe went, And otherwise hee cannot depose. John Cooke [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] ******************************* the tenth of June 1657. Touching the shipps} ''Victory'' and the ''Saint} John'':} '''Rp.''' '''Bertrand Dibarbone''' of London Merchant aged nine and twenty yeares or thereabouts sworne before the right Worshippfull John Godolphin doctor of Lawes - one of the Judges of the high Court of the Admiraltie of England saith and deposeth by vertue of his oath That hee this deponent in or about the end of the moneth of May last past received advise from Paris from his correspondents Messieurs John Jaques ffonne, Michael Carpentier and John Reynault Merchants there dwelling subiects of the king of ffrance, touching their lading by their factor Charles Trenchant certaine goods at Saint Malo's aboard two shipps the one named the ''Victory'' of Saint Malo John Gaultier Commander bound for the barr of Cadiz, ffaro, The Canaries, or New Spaine in the West India's, and the other named the ''Saint John'' of Saint Malo, ffrancis Tranchant Commander bound for the barr of Cadiz, ffaro, and the Canaries, And saith that they in the said leteres of advice signified and declared unto this deponent that the said shipps were both to retourne for England or ffrance and there to discharge. And further that touching the said goods hee in and the same letere of advice received two papers written in ffrench, the one beginning '''Extraict des Registres de L'Admiralte de ffrance a Paris etcetera''', and ending '''fait a paris le sixieme Juin Mil six cent cens cinquante six''', and underwritten, '''fforne pere et fils, Charpentier et Requault''' And the other paper conteyning a receipt of a passe from the king of ffrance, beginning ('''[XXXX] duc de Vando[X]om etcetera''' and undersigned by severall merchants. And that they desired that this deponent, by their said letere to declare and make knowne to this Court that the said goods mentioned in the said first paper were laden for their proper account and for the further manifestation thereof and of the rest of the contents of
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