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this deponent then being Boateswaine of an … this deponent then being Boateswaine of and aboard the said shipp And<br />
further cannot depose
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The same day Examined upon the said Interrogatories:- [CENTRE HEADING]
'''2us./'''
'''Edmund Thorne''' of the parrish of Saint Buttolphs<br />
Billinsgate in London Mariner late Gunner of the same<br />
shipp the ''hannah'' aged 52. yeares or thereabouts a<br />
Wittnes sworne [?as] aforesaid, and examined<br />
saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet:
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith, That hee this examinate well knoweth the<br />
interrate John Parker a Merchant of London, and hath so knowne him for<br />
about 2. yeares last past, and saith that in the moneths of June July<br />
August and September last past the said John Parker was an Owner and<br />
Proprietor of one 4th part of the shipp the ''hannah'' interrate and of her tackle and<br />
furniture, and for and as such was commonly accompted reputed and<br />
taken. Which hee this examinate knoweth being as aforesaid Gunner of<br />
the said shipp during the Voyage wherein shee perished as hereafter followed<br />
and before her said Voyage, this examinate by direction of Thomas Tyman<br />
Master of the said Vessell received part of his wages from the said John Parker<br />
in the quality of Owner as aforesaid for her then intended designe; And<br />
saith That to the best of this deponents Judgement (who hath used Navigation<br />
for theise 26. or 27. yeares last past) the said 4th part of the said Vessell her tackle abd furniture<br />
within the time predeposed, was [?richly] and really worth three hundred<br />
and fiftie pounds sterling And further hee cannot depose./:-
To the 2d Interrogatorie hee saith, That in or about the moneths of August<br />
and September last past the said shipp the ''hannah'' tooke in her ladeing<br />
of Salt and some oyles at Lisbone and Pharo in Portugall, and that<br />
this examinate both at Lisbone and Pharo aforesayd understood from the<br />
factors of the said John Parker there residing, that hee the said John<br />
Parker was a principall Owner and Proprietor of the said ladeing of<br />
salt, and saith this deponent then and there observed about 15. or 16. butts of<br />
oyle (as hee now remembreth the number) which were last laden and receaved<br />
aboard the said shipp at Pharo, and were, (as his precontest the<br />
Boateswaine whose office it was to take notice of the same) then told this<br />
deponent and Companie who helped to stow the same) for the accompt of the<br />
said John Parker, And saith, That in this deponents Judgement and as hee<br />
is in Conscience convinced, the interest which the said John Parker had<br />
in the said lading of salt and oyles aforesaid did amount to two<br />
hundred pounds sterling at the least. hee further saith, That the<br />
said shipp and ladeing being in their Course from Pharo aforesaid towards<br />
London were upon or about the 10th day of October last, about<br />
(25day of October last, about<br />
(25 +
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