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The first of June 1657.
Exámined upon the … The first of June 1657.
Exámined upon the foresaid allegation.
On the behalfe of the fore said Silvester}<br />
ánd others. touching the ''ffortune''.}
'''Rp. 6.us'''
'''John Cooke''' of the parish of White Chappell<br />
London Merchant, aged 36 yeeres or thereabouts<br />
sworne and exámined.
To the eighth árticle of the said allegation (upon which alone hee is by<br />
direction of the producent exámined) hee saith and deposeth That in or<br />
about August last past hee this deponent received a letre from his correspondent<br />
liveing in Amsterdam and these dated, purporting (amongst other things)<br />
and adviseing that if there were any shipps on the coast<br />
of Guiney wherein this deponent or any friend of his had any interest,<br />
they should doe well to give them notice that there were two<br />
shipps designed from Amsterdam for those coasts, and that it was<br />
designed to take English there, and that they could there<br />
meete withall. And further that is the owners of the said two ships<br />
dwelt in Amsterdam and Zealand as the common report alsoe went,<br />
And otherwise hee cannot depose.
John Cooke [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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the tenth of June 1657.<br />
Touching the shipps}<br />
''Victory'' and the ''Saint}<br />
John'':}
'''Rp.'''
'''Bertrand Dibarbone''' of London Merchant aged nine and<br />
twenty yeares or thereabouts sworne before the right Worshippfull<br />
John Godolphin doctor of Lawes - one of the Judges of the<br />
high Court of the Admiraltie of England saith and deposeth<br />
by vertue of his oath
That hee this deponent in or about the end of the moneth of May<br />
last past received advise from Paris from his correspondents Messieurs John Jaques<br />
ffonne, Michael Carpentier and John Reynault Merchants there dwelling<br />
subiects of the king of ffrance, touching their lading by their factor Charles Trenchant certaine<br />
goods at Saint Malo's aboard two shipps the one<br />
named the ''Victory'' of Saint Malo John Gaultier Commander bound for the barr of Cadiz, ffaro, The Canaries,<br />
or New Spaine in the West India's, and the other named the ''Saint John''<br />
of Saint Malo, ffrancis Tranchant Commander bound for the barr of Cadiz, ffaro, and the Canaries,<br />
And saith that they in the said leteres of advice signified and declared unto<br />
this deponent that the said shipps were both to retourne for England<br />
or ffrance and there to discharge. And further that touching the said goods hee in and<br />
the same letere of advice received two papers written in ffrench, the<br />
one beginning '''Extraict des Registres de L'Admiralte de ffrance a<br />
Paris etcetera''', and ending '''fait a paris le sixieme Juin Mil six cent cens<br />
cinquante six''', and underwritten, '''fforne pere et fils, Charpentier et Requault'''<br />
And the other paper conteyning a receipt of a passe from the king of ffrance, beginning<br />
('''[XXXX] duc de Vando[X]om etcetera''' and undersigned by severall merchants. And<br />
that they desired that this deponent, by their said letere to declare and make knowne<br />
to this Court that the said goods mentioned in the said first paper were laden for their proper account<br />
and for the further manifestation thereof and of the rest of the contents<br />
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