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having lived severall yeeres at dunkirke a … having lived severall yeeres at dunkirke and as a merchant<br />
having had severall occasions with the said Marquis or Admirall aforesaid, hath severall<br />
times seene the said Colbrant write and subscribe Instruments and<br />
dispatches for the said Marquis, and thereby became well acquainted with<br />
his hand and firme, and having nowe perused his name<br />
subscribed to the said first schedule, hee verily beleeveth the same<br />
to be the proper hand and firme of the said Colbrant as<br />
Greffrier aforesaid, and thereby alsoe beleeveth the contents of<br />
the said first schedule to be true and to be soe had and donne as<br />
therein is contained, And verily beleeveth the seale set in the foote<br />
of the Instrument to bee the seale of the Admiraltie Court<br />
of dunquirke, and the said Instrument to bee a true copie of the<br />
originall thereof remayning in the said Court. And otherwise hee<br />
cannot depose.
To the fourth hee cannot depose.
To the Interrogatories in the 2d place [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first hee saith hee did not see the act or instrument predeposed<br />
sealed or signed, and saith it is seaven or eight yeares since this<br />
deponent was last at dunkirkes And otherwise hee cannot answer<br />
saving his foregoing deposition to which hee referreth himselfe
Repeated before doctor Godolphin.
Ab:t Gale [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE; NAME AT HEAD OF DEPOSITION IS "Robert Gale"]
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The third of december 1657.
Touching the Barke}<br />
the ''Magdalene'' Jacques}<br />
[GUTTER ?Ennet] Master}
'''Jaques Ennet''' of Cane in Normandy Mariner, master<br />
of the Barke the ''Magdalenn'' of Cann, aged 45 yeares<br />
or thereabouts, and '''ffrancis du Pont''' alsoe of Canne<br />
Mariner, one of the said Barkes company, aged 30 yeares or<br />
thereabouts and '''John Mirandat''' of Cane aforesaid<br />
Mariner another of the said Barkes company, aged<br />
20 yeeres or thereabouts sworne before the right worshippfull<br />
John Godolphin Doctor of lawes one of the<br />
Judges of the high Court of the Admiraltie, saith<br />
and deposeth by vertue of their oathes as followeth, videlicet
That the said barque the ''Magdalen'' having at<br />
Cane aforesaid received her lading of paper, linnen cloth and some<br />
other things for this port of London, and being in her course of<br />
proceeding from Cane for this port, and having touched at<br />
the Roade of haver du Grace for convoy, set saile from the<br />
said roade on wednesday last was a seavenight about eight of the<br />
clock in the morning, and about tenn of the clock the same day<br />
hee saith there arose a very furious storme with the winde at west<br />
south west which continued all that day and night following and<br />
tilly and night following and<br />
till +
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