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depose: saving hee hath heard, (and verily … depose: saving hee hath heard, (and verily beleeveth) the said<br />
ship with all the said goods aboard her, Were seized, by Enemies<br />
to this Comonwealth, by reason of which seizure all the said goods<br />
were and are utterly lost to the said Humphry, and Mathias Aldington<br />
saving that hee this deponent entred the<br />
said goods at the Custome house for Porto aforesaid to be<br />
transported in the said shipp: and sawe them Put into boates<br />
to be sent and put aboard the said shipp: the ''Vallentine'', and<br />
afterwards received a receipt for the same, were received aboard<br />
the said ship accordingly:/:
Repeated before doctor Godolphin: with his precontest:/:
Edward Colston [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 21th of January 1657.
Touching the ''Endeavour''}<br />
and ''Mary'' said to be destroied by the}<br />
danes or their [?mXXXXXes]}
'''Rp. 1.'''
'''Christofer Wallis''' of Plimouth in the County of<br />
devon Mariner, aged 36 yeares or thereabouts sworne<br />
as in the acts of Court and examined upon certaine<br />
Interrogatories saith as followeth.
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith hee well knew the vessell the ''Endeavour''<br />
interrogated (of which John Welch was Captaine) and a certaine<br />
shallop called the ''Mary'', whereof Nathaniel Stakely was commander,<br />
And saith the said vessell whereof the said Welch was Captaine, was of<br />
the burthen of fiftie tonnes or thereabouts, and had and carried eight greate<br />
gunns at the time of her losse hereafter mentioned, and that the said<br />
Shallop was of the burthen of eighteene tonnes or thereabouts and had<br />
foure gunns, and further that both the vessells were at the time of<br />
their surprizall hereafter mentioned very well and plentifully furnished with<br />
all manner of provisions, tackle, furniture and apparell for their<br />
voyage, and in<br />
particular the said greater vessell had two sutes of sailes, three anchors,<br />
three cables, and all other things necessarie, and soe had the lesser of<br />
the said vessells, saving that shee had but one sute of sailes. And saith<br />
the said two vessells with their provisions, tackle, apparell and<br />
furniture, were in his estimation worth a thousand pounds sterling, and<br />
soe much they stood their owners in upon their setting out, but hee<br />
cannot valew them apart, The premisses hee deposeth being masters<br />
mate of the said greater vessell, and sailing in her in company of the<br />
Shallop aforesaid.
To the second Interrogatorie hee saith that William Russell and Erasmus<br />
Bedlow of london both English men and subiects of this Common<br />
Wealth and well knowne to him this deponent were the owners of the said<br />
two vessells and fitted, furnished and sett them out on the voyage wherein<br />
they were lost (as hereafter is mentioned) namely to goe and saile<br />
into the River of Bremer in the parts beyond the seas. And saith they<br />
had a Commission of Marque from his highnes the lord Protector ofque from his highnes the lord Protector of +
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