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condemned the law and Justice of the Land … condemned the law and Justice of the Land will take pitty of and<br />
reward her husbands great paynes in this busines taken by him<br />
for the good and wealth of this Land which is his owne Country<br />
And otherwise she cannot depose
To the 12th. she saith in regard her husband was a prosequutor and<br />
imployed as a discoverer in this cause she conceyves that was the reason<br />
she was nor dormerly examined, because a woman may not be<br />
a witnes for her husband, but in regard the busines is for the<br />
good of the Land she is now examined, other reason she knoweth<br />
not nor can further answer to this Interrogatory, saving that she<br />
did not acquaint her sayd husband how much and how farr she could<br />
depose in this Cause till of late.
Magdalena '''M''' hendricks. [MARKE, RH SIDE]<br />
her marke.
Repeated with her precontest<br />
before Doctor Clarke.
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The fifteenth day of November <u>1654</u> [CENTRE HEADING]
The Lord Protector against the shipp}<br />
''Sampson'' Otto George Master and}<br />
the sylver and goods in the same.}
'''Magdalena Hendrickes''' the wife of Abraham<br />
Johnson living in the Minneries<br />
nere London wall saylemaker, aged thirtie two<br />
yeares or thereabouts sworne and examined<br />
upon certayne further Interrogatories ministred<br />
on the behalfe of Vincent Van Campen and others<br />
interessed in the shipps ''Sampson'' Otto George Master<br />
''Salvador'' Christian Cloppenburgh Master and ''Saint George''<br />
John Martins Dorp Master, and goods in the same by<br />
vertue of a speciall decree of Court in this behalfe<br />
made, saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet.
To the first Interrogatorie ministred by Mr ffrancklin on behalfe of his<br />
sayd Clients by vertue of the sayd speciall decree, This deponent saith<br />
she is the wife of Abraham Johnson interrogate, and hath a sufficient<br />
Certificat of her marriage with the sayd Johnson to shew under the<br />
hand of Prudentius Wilhelme minister of the holy gospell who did<br />
marry them together the 23 day of September in the yeare <u>1640.</u> And<br />
sayth her sayd husband as he hath told her was examined in this<br />
cause on the behalfe of the Commonwealth and she heard him, say<br />
so neere upon a yeare agoe. And further she saith she cannot<br />
depose/
To the second and third Interrogatories she saith, that the widdow of one<br />
Pembridge (who as she hath heard was examined as a witnesse in this<br />
cause of the sylver shipps,) about three monethes agoe being in<br />
discoursenethes agoe being in<br />
discourse +
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