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latter end of Aprill 1656 videlicet about the 25th day of that moneth
and saith that as hee rememberth the Sea ffortune is a dutch built shipp
but as to her burthen hee cannot depose saving hee beleveeth her to bee
about two hundred and forty tonns, and saith hee sawe pipe staves and hoopes
delivered and divers bales of goods (the contents or qualitie hee knoweth
not) to the foresayd don Christopher in the Port of Orotava aforesayd
and knoweth of none delivered to any other factor And further cannot
answere.

To the 4th hee saith hee well knoweth the Interrogate don Christopher
de Alvarado da Brachamonte and Symon da herera and hath bin
frequently in ther Companyes and beleveeth the sayd don Christopher
was and is the factor of the sayd ffernandez and saith the ladeing
Interrogate was delivered to the sayd don Christopher And further
cannot answere.

To the 5th hee saith hee was present upon the Sea ffortune departed
from the Canaries and was severall tymes on board her while shee
stayed there (which was about twenty and odd dayes) but how often or
upon what occasion hee or who was with him hee remembreth
not, and saith hee heard the sayd don Christopher and the master
speake and discourse togeather according as hee hath in his foregoeing
deposition declared to which hee doth and will referre him selfe
and cannot more particularly answere touching this discourse And
further cannot answere to this Interrogatorie/.

Repeated before doctor Godolphin/

[UNSIGNED]

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The 27th of November 1656/

Jesson against Jollyff}
and others}

Examined upon the allogation aforesayd

Smyth dt.

2.

John Prynn of Newington Butts in the County
of Surrey Mariner aged 27 yeares or thereabouts
a wittnesse sworne and examined saith and
deposeth the following videlicet./

To the first article of the sayd allegation hee saith that during the
whole voyage in question which began in November 1654 at which
tyme hee sett sayle from this port of London untill her arrival back
in this Port of London with which was in the moneth of June 1656
and
after her arrivall here untill shee had fully unladen her homeward
Cargo, and untill the moneth of August 1656 (in which moneth the
arlate shipp the Mary was sold) the arlate John Jesson was
Master of the sayd shipp Mary and had the care and charge of her during
the voyage in question and untill her say sayd Sale as master and did remayne and
abide