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[ADD DATA]To the 19th hee saith the said s … [ADD DATA]To the 19th hee saith the said shipp was to dischardge at Copenhagen aforesaid.
To the 20th hee cannot depose.
To the 21th hee answereth negatively.
To the 22th hee saith there was noe other master but the sayd lawson.
The marke of
'''HIS''' hance Johnson [MARKE, RH SIDE]
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The same day.
Examined upon the foresaid Interrogatories.
'''2'''
'''Laurence Albertson''' of Elsanore Mariner, aged 30 yeares<br />
or thereabouts, sworne and examined
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith that hee was shipped aboard the said shipp<br />
at Copenhaven about three dayes after Whitsuntide last to goe the voyage<br />
in question, and ever since hee hath served in her as one of her fore mast men<br />
and was aboard at the time of her seizure.
To the rest of the Interrogatories hee saith that the said shipp laden with meale,<br />
bread, beere, linnen cloth and other goods proper for the Island voyage, departed<br />
from Copenhagen on or about the 30th of June last bound for Island to lade<br />
fish for the service and accompt of the Island company of Copenhagen<br />
burghers of that towne and subiects of the kinge of denmarke, and<br />
accordingly went and tooke in her lading of Stockfish and about foure<br />
or five lasts of traine oile at Island in the moneth of August last,<br />
and retourned thence with the same for Copenhagen for<br />
the accompt of the aid Island company, and comming under Jutland<br />
in their homewards course the said shipp and goods in the moneth of October<br />
last were seized by the ''Catherin frigot'', and saith the said shipp was<br />
to dischardge at Copenhagen aforesaid, and saith that the owners of the<br />
said shipp as hee hath heard dwell in Copenhagen, one whereof named<br />
Nicholas hee well knoweth, And that the said owners were and are<br />
all accompted Burghers of Copenhaven and subiects of the said<br />
kinge of denmarke, and that this deponent is alsoe one of his subiects,<br />
as likewise the master of the said shipp Godman Lawson, and the<br />
sopra cargo hendrick johnson who went alonge and laded the said fish<br />
and ole., And saith the said takers have taken all the fish that was<br />
betwixt decks, and much of the shipps furniture, All which<br />
hee knoweth being one of the said shipps company and going the<br />
said voyage and seeing the said seizure soe made
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The 22th of November 1653:-
On the behalfe of James}<br />
[?Johnson] touching the}<br />
''Sarah''}
'''Rp.'''
'''James ffordham''' of London Mariner aged 40 yeares or<br />
thereabouts, master of the good shipp the ''Sarah'' of London<br />
'''Cobham Doves''' of Dover Mariner aged 44 yeares or<br />
thereabouts, and '''John Quin''' of Dover Mariner aged 36<br />
yeares or thereabouts, sworne before the right Worshipfull William<br />
Clarke and John Godolphin doctors of lawes and Charles<br />
George Cock Esquire Judges of the High Court of Admiraltie<br />
say and deposeth by vertue of their oathes as followeth.
And first the said James ffordham and Cobam doves doe say and depose<br />
that about 6 weekes since the said shipp the ''Sarah'' departed from Roane in ffrance laden<br />
with diverse goods for this port of London, and that after shee had bin<br />
about five dayes at sea comming off [?Binchington] shee was overtaken<br />
by a greate storme and stresse of weather which continued the space of<br />
five or sixe dayes, and the said shipp having gained Margaret Toade<br />
wasving gained Margaret Toade<br />
was +
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