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this deponent saith, That hee had not any further occasion or
opportunity to take notice of any further or other spoyle[XX GUTTER]
or imbeazelement by the said seizors made or committed upon
the said shipps lading or any part. More to this Interrogatorie
hee saith not/

To the last Interrogatorie hee saith, That this deponent cannot depose
to the matters in theis Interrogatorie questioned, for that hee was soe
sett on land as aforesaid, and thereby was parted from the said
shipp and her said Master Masters Mate and boy, soe that
he this examinate could not take any further notice of them
saving that the said seizors brought the said shipp along the Coast to the
Northward, and pretended while this deponent was under
restraint as aforesaid, that they would bring the same to Gottenburgh./

the marke of
Salomon [MARKE] Valumsson./ [MARKE, RH SIDE]

Repeated before doctor Godolphin

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The 30th day of March 1658./

Rp. 2.us

Peter Pantel of the free Citie of dantsick
Mariner aged 24. yeares or therabouts a Wittnesse
produced sworne and examined as his precontsts
saith and deposeth as followeth to witt

To the first Interrogatorie this examinate saith, That hee well knoweth
the shipp the Charity interrate (whereof one Paul Backman
was master) being of the burthen of about forty lasts or fowerscore
Tunns, in and on board which shipp this deponent served as an ordinary
or common Mariner from the first time of her being bought at Berghen
= Norway for the accompt of John Shorter her then and now Owner
which was about five weekes before Christmas last, (the time
hee otherwise remembreth not) untill the time of her Late seizure
More to this Interrogatorie hee saith not/:

To the second Interrogatorie this examinate saith, That this deponent was at
Berghen=Norway aforesaid at such time as one Mr William [?servant GUTTER]
or Agent to or for John Shorter in the Interrogatorie mentioned at the
said place or Port of Berghen did for the accompt of the said John
Shorter there in open markett buy the said shipp the Charity of
one Jans hanson a publique Officer of that Port or place
of Berghen thereunto authorized , and commonly imployed uponsuch
sales, and this deponent both by and according to the credible information
of the sayd Master and of the said Mr Williams who soe bought
the said shipp, and by whom this deponent immediately after the buying
thereof was entertained to serve in and on board the same, is fully
convinced in conscience and doth most assuredly beleeve that the
sayd John Shorter (who then was and still is generally reputed to
be an Englishman and a Subject of this Commonwealth of England
(was