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of the said time [?or] of the voyage belonging to the said shipp who was named or called
Cornelius, which if there had this deponent being all the while
one of the company must as hee saith needs have knowne it,
nor was there in all that time any mariner of or in the
said shipp called Cornelius, for this deponent hath frequently
heard all the mariners of the said shipp called by their names
and well remembreth that hee never heard any of them called
or named Cornelius. And otherwise hee cannot depose.

To the 6th article hee saith and deposeth that the shipp
Mercurius whereof hance yonge was master and which hee this
deponent well knew, came to Cadiz in the yeare 1652 two monethes
after the Salvadors being and remayning there, which hee knoweth
being one of the Salvadors company and being there in her
and seeing the arivall of the Mercury there soe longe as aforesaid
after the comming thither of the Salvador, And otherwise
hee cannot depose.

Upon the seaventh hee is not examined by direction of the producent.

To the Interrogatories. [CENTRE HADING]

To the first hee saith hee is a lubecker borne and hath
dwelt there all his time, and that hee was Carpenter of
the Salvador for the time hee served in her as aforesaid, And
otherwise negatively, saving as aforesaid.

To the second hee saith hee is a shipwright by trade, and
that hee hath bin at Amsterdam about foure yeares since and
staid there about two monethes, and afterwards namely
about 2 yeares and a halfe since hee was there about 6
monethes, in the beginning of which time hee came to the
Salvador, and was never at hamborough, and that hee
never sawe the Salvador at Amsterdam but when hee came
to serve in her. And otherwise hee cannot answer.

To the third hee cannot depose.

To the fourth hee cannot depose.

To the 5th hee saith that the said shipp went from Amsterdam
in or about October 1651 and arived at Cadiz about three
weekes after, and there staid about three monethes and then
went to Barcelona with souldiers for the king of Spaine,
and about 5 or 6 monethes after shee retourned to Cadiz and
there attended the comming of the West India fleete, and
there staid till her lading and comming away for Ostend the
last voyage in which shee was taken. And otherwise saving as
aforesaid hee cannot depose.

To the 6th hee saith hee doubteth not but that it is lawfull
for a sailemaker to be owner of a shipp aswell as another
man if hee have wherewith to build or buy her. And otherwise
hee cannot answer.

To the 7th hee saith the said shipps company consisted of 36 men
and boyes or thereabouts and that hee well knewe the names of them
And otherwise hee referreth himselfe to his foregoeing deposition.

To the last hee cannot depose.

Repeated in Court./

The marke of the said
Castian [MARKE] ffran[?ch] [MARKE, RH SIDE]