HCA 13/70 f.504r Annotate

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advised of the receipt of the sayd goods this hee knoweth for that hee
this deponent tooke a coppy of the letter sent to the sayd Cowse by the
sayd Proby and Watts, And further to these articles hee cannot depose/
saving hee saith hee well knoweth the sayd Probie and Watts and
saith they are Englishmen and Merchants of good repute in Saint
Lucar./

To the Crosse Interrogatories./ [CENTRE HEADING]

To the first Interrogatorie hee saith hee is noe way related to the sayd Keene
saving the sayd Keene made use of him as aforesayd to assiste him in
the disposall of some goods of his owne at Saint Lucar and in the endeavouring
to procure Mariners as aforesayd, and saith hee was forced by
a Compulsorie shewne him by an Officer of this Court to come and testifie in this cause And to the rest
of the Interrogatorie hee answereth negatively/

To the 2 hee saith the vessell Interrogate was repayred at Saint Lucar
and made fitt to proceed on a voyage and for that noe Mariners
could bee there procured to proceede to Palma the sayd Keene did
take there a freight for London and further hee cannot depose./

[?Hen: + Crikel [MARKE/SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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The same day [CENTRE HEADING]

Examined upon the sayd allegation/

6.

Charles Sadler of the parish of Saint Mary at hill London
Cittizen and Vintner of London aged 25 yeares or thereabouts
a witnes sworne and examined saith and deposeth as followeth

To the first article hee saith hee cannot depose for that hee knew not the John
and Elizabeth before her arrivall at Saint Lucar upon the voyage arlate/

To the 2: 3: 4th and 5th articles of the sayd allegation hee saith that hee this deponent
being in Spaine shortly after the arivall of the John and Elizabeth at Saint Lucar
did come to Saint Lucar and at his comming thither found the sayd vessell the John
and Elizabeth lying in the harbour there, and observed that shee
had bin very much hurt and damaged and had only a Jurie
mast standing which was put up at sea to bring her into any harbour that she
could most conveniently make to And hee saith that hee heard one Laarson
the Mate of the saud Vessell saye, and alsoe heard a common reporte to the same
effecte amongst other seamen and Mariners at Saint Lucar, that the sayd Vessell had
endured much stormie weather at sea before her comeing in thither and that
a shipp called the Supply whereof one ffluite as it was reported was master, had and
did fall fowle of her the John and Elizabeth and brake downe her masts and
her midshipp and did her other damage, and that her company (sall save her Master, and his said mate and a boy) seeing the same
and fearing shee would perish in the sea imediately upon the sayd damage receaved
forsaken