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Transcription

To the 37th he referreth himselfe to his foregoeinge
deposition and cannot otherwise anseare/

To the 38th negatively for his parte/

To the 39th he saith he is a seafaringe man And otherwise
negatively:/

Repeated before doctor Clerke and Godolphin.

M [MARKE, RH SIDE]

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The 12th of October 1653, [CENTRE HEADING]

Examined uppon the foresaid allegation:/

3

William Astell of the parish of Allhallowes
Barkinge London Chirurgeon aged 60 yeares
or thereabouts sworne and examined.

To the nineteenth arlate article of the said allegation he
saith and deposeth That on or about the One and Twentieth
day of January last past he this deponent was in Companie
of Cornelius Peterson, Trumpeter of the shipp the
Salvador arlate att the signe of the shipp in Woolwich, and
fallinge into discourse with him touchinge the said shipp the
Salvador and the shipps the Sampson and Saint George
arlate, he the said Trumpeter confessed and said that all
the said shipps belonged to holland, and that the shipp
the Salvador was this voyage bound for Amsterdam there
to discharge, and this discourse he saith happened in the
dutch language which this deponent (as he saith) cann verie
well speake and understand And otherwise he cannot
depose/

Uppon the rest he is not examined by direction of the
producent/

To the crosse Interrogatories/

To the 33th he saith That the said confession of the said
Trumpeter was made in an upper roome of the said howse
knowne by the signe of the shipp haveinge a Balcone before
it, towards the water side, and for the day and hower he saith it
was about two or three of the Clocke in the morning of
Satterday the 22th of January last they haveinge bin there
all the foregoeinge night, And that then and there were
present besides this deponent and the said Trumpeter
Abraham Johnson his precontest, and his Contest William
Pembridge together with one Mr [?Swaines] belonginge to the
Prize Office And otherwise saveinge his foregoeinge
deposition to which he referreth himselfe he cannot depose for
he was not in the voyage in question nor can saye ought thereof
more then by heresaye.

To the 36th he saith that if it were or had bin in his power he
would have longe since condemned the said shipps the
Sampson the Salvador and the Saint George with theire
ladinge for Prize because he beleeveth them to be hollands
shipps