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this deponent saith, That hee had not any … this deponent saith, That hee had not any further occasion or<br />
opportunity to take notice of any further or other spoyle[XX GUTTER]<br />
or imbeazelement by the said seizors made or committed upon<br />
the said shipps lading or any part. More to this Interrogatorie<br />
hee saith not/
To the last Interrogatorie hee saith, That this deponent cannot depose<br />
to the matters in theis Interrogatorie questioned, for that hee was soe<br />
sett on land as aforesaid, and thereby was parted from the said<br />
shipp and her said Master Masters Mate and boy, soe that<br />
he this examinate could not take any further notice of them<br />
saving that the said seizors brought the said shipp along the Coast to the<br />
Northward, and pretended while this deponent was under<br />
restraint as aforesaid, that they would bring the same to Gottenburgh./
the marke of<br />
Salomon [MARKE] Valumsson./ [MARKE, RH SIDE]
Repeated before doctor Godolphin
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The 30th day of March <u>1658./</u>
'''Rp. 2.us'''
'''Peter Pantel''' of the free Citie of dantsick<br />
Mariner aged 24. yeares or therabouts a Wittnesse<br />
produced sworne and examined as his precontsts<br />
saith and deposeth as followeth to witt
To the first Interrogatorie this examinate saith, That hee well knoweth<br />
the shipp the ''Charity'' interrate (whereof one Paul Backman<br />
was master) being of the burthen of about forty lasts or fowerscore<br />
Tunns, in and on board which shipp this deponent served as an ordinary<br />
or common Mariner from the first time of her being bought at Berghen<br />
= Norway for the accompt of John Shorter her then and now Owner<br />
which was about five weekes before Christmas last, (the time<br />
hee otherwise remembreth not) untill the time of her Late seizure<br />
More to this Interrogatorie hee saith not/:
To the second Interrogatorie this examinate saith, That this deponent was at<br />
Berghen=Norway aforesaid at such time as one Mr William [?servant GUTTER]<br />
or Agent to or for John Shorter in the Interrogatorie mentioned at the<br />
said place or Port of Berghen did for the accompt of the said John<br />
Shorter there in open markett buy the said shipp the ''Charity'' of<br />
one Jans hanson a publique Officer of that Port or place<br />
of Berghen thereunto authorized , and commonly imployed uponsuch<br />
sales, and this deponent both by and according to the credible information<br />
of the sayd Master and of the said Mr Williams who soe bought<br />
the said shipp, and by whom this deponent immediately after the buying<br />
thereof was entertained to serve in and on board the same, is fully<br />
convinced in conscience and doth most assuredly beleeve that the<br />
sayd John Shorter (who then was and still is generally reputed to<br />
be an Englishman and a Subject of this Commonwealth of England<br />
(wass Commonwealth of England<br />
(was +
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