HCA 13/71 f.512r Annotate

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The 15th of January 1656. [CENTRE HEADING]

Garet aforesaid for}
the don de dieu}

Examined upon the aforesaid allegation.

Rp. 3.

Phillip Crossing of Saint Malo's but borne at Exeter Merchant aged
29 yeeres or thereabouts sworne and examined.

To the first and second articles of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth that
hee well knoweth the shipp the don de dieu arlate whereof ffrancis
Gervais was and is Captaine whom hee alsoe well knoweth, and likewise
well knoweth the producents Peter and Stephen Garet and hath so donne
for theise two yeares last or thereabouts and saith the said shipp was and
is belonging to the port of Saint Malo's in the Realme of ffrance, and
was and is a new shipp, and was first begun to be built there about
two yeeres since, and was there built by one Vincent Aufrey Sieur de
Rossier a ffrench shipwright there dwelling well alsoe knowne to
this deponent, who built her there for his owne account, and when shee
was finished exposed her to sale, and this deponent with some friends of
his were in treatie with him to buy her of him and offered him money
for her, but not agreeing upon the summe, the said Peter and Stephen
Garet bought her of him, and paid as the deponent heard and beleveeth
betweene foure and five thousand livers for her hull,
and afterwards fitted her, and ever since they the said Peter and Stephen
Garet have bin and are the true and reall owners and sole proprietors
and were and are subiects of the king of ffrance and inhabitants of Saint
Malo's, where this deponent hath dwelt five or six yeares, and
sawe the keele of the said shipp laid in a place in Saint Malo's called the [?ffiet] and her building proceede
and there sawe her launched, And otherwise hee cannot depose.

To the Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING]

To the first and second hee saith hee did not see any of the money paid for the
said shipp, not was witnes to the bill of sale but heard the said Vincent
Aufrey acknowledge that hee had sold her to the said Peter and Stephen
Garatt, and saith that hee was not in the voyage nor knoweth ought
thereof, And otherwise hee cannot answere saving as aforesaid.

To the third hee conceiveth the said shipp to bee of the burthen of
betweene 70 and 80 tonnes, and otherwise hee cannot answer.

To the 4. 5. 6 and 7th hee cannot answer not being in the voyage nor
knowing ought thereof; saving as aforesaid.

To the eight negatively for his part and otherwise hee cannot answer.

Repeated before the two judges in Court.

Phillioe Crossing [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
1656