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ánd sinking, amounted in his estimation to … ánd sinking, amounted in his estimation to one thousand livers Tournois,<br />
and the same could not as hee beleeveth be defrayed with lesse expense<br />
and charge, And otherwise hee cannot depose
To the eighth hee saith that upon and by reason of the said disaster that<br />
the said shipps company threatened to quit and leave her,<br />
and would have left her, had not the said Eleazer la Marchaut<br />
her master by and upon a new composition given them a monthes<br />
wages or thereabouts more than they were by their first agreement<br />
to have, whereunto hee was constrained that hee might keepe them, and the same was<br />
occasioned by the said disaster,<br />
All which hee knoweth for the reason<br />
aforesaid.
To the nineth Interrogatory hee saith the said Eleazar le Marchaut<br />
upon the premisses desiring to have an alteration made, went to<br />
a Notary in [?Narmontier], who upon relation of the passages, drew<br />
it up, and and then the foresaid monsieur Gazeau (who was to<br />
have laded the said goods) being acquainted therewith, and as it seemed<br />
disswading the said Notary from giveing the same, the said Notary<br />
refused the deliverie thereof to the said le Marchaut requiring<br />
the same, telling him that hee durst not dliver it, in regard of<br />
the said monsieur Gazeau, or to that effect, which hee knoweth going<br />
with the said le Marchaut to the said Notary (as alsoe did his<br />
precontest Jaques durand) and taking notice of the premisses.
Repeated before Collonel Cock.
Wakters [?Brassen] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The fourteenth of ffebruary 1656. [CENTRE HEADING]
Eleazar le Marchunt Master of the}<br />
shipp the ''ffortune'' of Garnasey}<br />
Against Andrew kirby, Budd. Smith}
Exámined upon the Libell.
'''Rp. .j.'''
'''William Brower''' borne in holstenland<br />
in Germania, late Masters mate and now<br />
master of the said shipp the ''ffortune'', aged<br />
27 yeares or thereabouts sworne and<br />
exámined.
To the first article of the said libell hee saith and deposeth<br />
that hee well knoweth the shipp the ''ffortune'' of Garnasey and<br />
hath soe donne for theise five monethes last, and for the same<br />
space hath alsoe well knowne the producent Eleazar le Marchaut<br />
who for all the said time (till about a fortnight since that hee<br />
put this deponent master of the said shipp nowe bound for ffrance)<br />
hath bin master of her and had the charge and command of her as master<br />
and for such was commonly accounted and reputed, which hee knoweth<br />
for that hee this deponent was the said space masters mate of her
To the second hee saith, That in the moneth of November last past the<br />
said shipp the ''fortune'' being under the government and Conduct of the said<br />
Eleazar le Marchaut in the river of Nantes arlate, the arlate Andrew<br />
kirby did by his factor and correspondent resideing at Nantes aforesaid<br />
by name Martin Lony or Luny as this examinate now remembreth his name as this examinate now remembreth his name +
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