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The 29th day of March <u> … '''B:3:'''
The 29th day of March <u>.1658:</u>/
A businesse of Examination of Wittnesses (for the<br />
perpetuall memory of the matter) upon Interrogatories)<br />
ministred on the part and behalf of John)<br />
Shorter concerning a certaine shipp called the)<br />
''Charity'' and the goods by him laden on)<br />
board her./ ffrancklin.)
'''Rp. jus'''
'''Salomon Valmussen''' of Stockholme<br />
in Sweden Mariner aged three<br />
and twenty yeares or thereabouts<br />
sworne before the right Worshipfull<br />
John Godolphin doctor of Lawes<br />
one of the Judges of the high Court<br />
of Admiralty of England saith and<br />
deposeth as followeth, to witt
To the first of the said Interrogatories hee saith, That hee this deponent doeth<br />
well knowe the shipp the ''Charitie'' of London whereof Paul<br />
Backman interrate was Master, for that hee this examinate was<br />
in or about the middle of January last past at Berghen in Norway<br />
entertained by the said Master to serve in and aboard the said<br />
shipp as shipps Carpenter thereof in her late voiage from the said<br />
place of Berghen to this Port of London, which Voiage this<br />
examinate in the quality aforesaid accordingly performed, and served in the<br />
said shipp by the space of betweene seaven weekes and two monethes<br />
or thereabouts, and saith that to the best of his this rendents Judgment<br />
the said shipp ''Charity'' was and is of the burthen of fortie lasts<br />
or forescore tunns, or thereabouts, And further to this Interrogatorie<br />
hee saith not./
To the second Interrogatorie hee saith, That hee this examinate during<br />
such time as hee served in and onboard the said shipp in the<br />
quality aforesaid did constantly and credibly heare, and did and<br />
doeth verily beleeve, That John Shorter an Englishman and a<br />
Subject of this Commonwealth of England and for and as such<br />
commonly reputed and taken was and is the Lawfull Owner<br />
and Proprietor of the said shipp the ''Charity'', and of her tackle<br />
apparrell and furniture, and for and as such commonly accompted<br />
both by and amongst the said shipps Company in and during the said<br />
Voiage, and also in an at the said Port of Berghen in Norway<br />
where the said shipp was by the said John Shorter his Agent<br />
or ffactor at that place bought and provided for the use and accompt<br />
of him the said John Shorter about seaven weekes before the said<br />
shipp proceeded upon her said voiage from Berghen<br />
to this Port of London, upon which voiage the said shipp, as this examinate<br />
hath also constantly and credibly heard and verily beleeveth, was by the said<br />
John Shorter, his agent or ffactor at Berghen in the name and to<br />
the behoofe of him the said John Shorter sett out and fitted and<br />
furnished to sea at the proper Costs of him the said John Shorter<br />
More to this Interrogatorie hee saith hee cannot depose, saving, That<br />
about three weekes and a halfe since (the time hee otherwise<br />
remembreth not the said shipp was by or on the behalfe of the said<br />
John Shorter and at his owne Costs, (as this deponent hath alsoe credibly<br />
heard and verily beleeveth) fitted and furnished to sea upon<br />
a Voiage to be performed from this Port of London to the said<br />
(Portrt of London to the said<br />
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