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On the same day./
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'''Okey La … On the same day./
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'''Okey Larson''' of Larwick in Norway Skipper<br />
aged about 24 yeares, being sworne upon the<br />
holy Evangelists on this first day of August<br />
1657 Before the right worshippfull John Godolphin<br />
Doctor of Lawes One of the Judges of the high Court of<br />
Admiralty in the presense of Millicent Colequite<br />
Notary publique did by vertue of such oath depose<br />
as followeth videlicet
That he the deponent did and doth well know the shipp<br />
the ''Peter'' of Tunsbrey in Norway, he the deponent having bin<br />
Skipper of her these fower yeares last past, the sayd<br />
shipp being of the burthen of (about) 250 Tonnes, And that<br />
he having authority and power from Ambron Larson and<br />
hans halvorsen the Owners and Proprietors of the<br />
sayd shipp the ''Peter'' did make sale of her unto Peter Rich<br />
Edward Askew and Robert kilver of London for which<br />
in consideration of the summe of five hundred and fifty<br />
pounds lawfull English money to him this deponent payd<br />
and satisfyed by them and that in presence of the said<br />
bargaine of sale, he this deponent hath delivered possession<br />
of her unto them the said Peter Rich, Edward Askew and<br />
Robert kilner, and that they are accordingly at this presente<br />
in quiet possession of her, as they ought to bee, And by<br />
Vertue of the said oath he further deposeth that by reason that<br />
his brother Abraham Jacobson Larson was Skipper of the<br />
shipp the ''Saint John'' of Larwick, he very well knew her, and<br />
hath soe knowne her for about 8 or 9 nine (sic) yeares, and that<br />
he lying in the River of Thames with the aforenamed ship<br />
the ''Peter'', when his sayd brother lay then there with the<br />
sayd ship the ''Saint John'' he well knoweth that the said Abraham<br />
Jacobson Larson this deponents brother did according to the<br />
orders, directions and powers by him given in that behalfe<br />
from and by Ambioen Larson and hellweck Tag[ersone GUTTER]<br />
Widdow the Owners and Proprietors of her, make sale<br />
of her unto Peter Rich, Edward Askew and John Larson<br />
for and in consideration of the summe of sixe hundred pounds<br />
lawfull English money to him payd and satisfyed, and that<br />
therupon accordingly the sayd Abraham Jaconson Larson<br />
did putt them the sayd Rich, Askew and Larson<br />
into possession of her, and that they are at this instant [time GUTTER]<br />
in peaceable and quiet possession of her as they ought to bee<br />
The premisses he deposeth for that he was by and<br />
present and was an eye and earewittnes of all the passages<br />
transacted concerning the aforenamed Abraham Jacobson<br />
Larson and the sayd Peter Rich, Edward Askew and John Dyson
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