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The 19th of Aprill 1656.
Intimation touch … The 19th of Aprill 1656.
Intimation touching the}<br />
[''Invention''] of Newcastle}
'''Edward Bolle''' of London Merchant, aged 50 yeeres or<br />
thereabouts sworne before the right Worshipfull John Godolphin<br />
Doctor of lawes one of the Judges of the high Court<br />
of the Admiraltie, saith and deposeth.
'''Rp.'''
That hee this deponent lately received a letter of advice from<br />
William Blacket of Newcastle Merchant (this deponents correspondent<br />
dated at Newcastle the tenth of this present, signifying<br />
that Mr henry Ladd of Amsterdam Merchant had in<br />
Amsterdam bought a certain shipp a vessell formerly called the ''Saint Paul''<br />
of hamborough, for the<br />
account and to the use of him the said William Lad and company (whereof this deponent is one) English<br />
merchants. And that, they being nowe owners of her had<br />
named her, the ''Invention'' of Newcastle, and had put Mathew<br />
henderson to goe master of her, and willed this deponent to<br />
make entrie thereof in this Court; and for the further confirmation<br />
of such their propriette hee inclosed sent (sic) this deposition<br />
an Attestation made by the said Ladd and passed at Amsterdam before John Crosse Notary,<br />
this 17th of Aprill 1656 new stile, declaring the said buying<br />
and selling of the said shipp as aforesaid, which hee nowe showeth<br />
for the informaton of this Court./
Edward Bolle [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 21th of Aprill 1656./
Cooke and Jameson Johnston against the ''Tankervaile''}<br />
and Batson: Clements: Smith}
Examined upon the libell./
'''Rp. 3.'''
'''William Jeffery''' of Wapping in the parish of Stobenheath<br />
alias Stepney in the County of Middlesex Mariner Masters Cheife<br />
Mate of the shipp ''Tankervaile'' aged 31 yeares or thereabouts<br />
a wittnes sworne and examined saith and deposeth as followeth
To the first and second articles of the sayd libell hee saith and deposeth that hee<br />
well knoweth the shipp ''Tankervile'' (lately as this deponent hath heard named the ''Discovery'')<br />
and well knew her by the name of the ''Tankervile'' during all the voyage in question<br />
And saith that in and during the tyme arlate the arlate Robert Cooke was of this deponents<br />
sight and knowledge Master and Governour of the sayd shipp and soe commonly accompted<br />
and was (as hee hath heard) Master of her for severall voyages before the<br />
voyage in question, and was (as this deponent beleeveth) constituted Master of her<br />
for the voyage in question by the arlate Richard Batson who was during all<br />
the tyme arlate and is commonly reputed to bee lawfull Owner of the one halfe parte of the sayd shipp,<br />
and this deponent beleeveth him soe to have bin during all the tyme arlate and farr longer<br />
and for still to bee, And hee further saith that within the moneths and tyme arlate<br />
the sayd Robert Cooke did by order of the sayd Batson goe with the sayd shipp the<br />
voyage in question, which was from the Port of London to Gottenberge in Norway,<br />
and for the better performance of the sayd voyage hyred the arlate James Cooke<br />
at the rate of fifty five shillings per moneth to be one<br />
of his Mates, and the arlate Maynard Jameson at the rate of forty fowre shillings<br />
per moneth to bee boatswaine of her for the voyage in question, this hee the better knoweth<br />
forhis hee the better knoweth<br />
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