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Doctor Zouch Judge.



The King retourne, whom God long preserve. Mr Potter Registrar.



The 21th of June 1660./

A Busines of Examination et cetera touching}
[GUTTER XXXX] aforesaid Henry}
[GUTTER XXXX]}

Examined upon the foresaid Allegation./:

Rp. 2dus

Alexander Kerr native of Greenock
in Scotland but living at Ayre in Scotland
Mariner aged about thirty yeeres sworne
and Examined/:

To the first article of the said Allegation hee saith that hee well
knoweth the ship the Hope arlate whereof Henry Hart
was Master and soe hath done for about five yeeres last during
all which space shee hath belonged to Glascoe in Scotland,
and saith that about the beginning os September last, hee this
Deponent was Imployed by the said Henry Hart the Master of
the said ship to helpe to unlade her, and after shee was unladen
namely in or about the moneth of September there was a lading of Butter and Herrings and Salmon
laden on board her, (which this Deponent helped to take in) And
saith that one Mr Kimmins and Mr Walkinshawe caused
the said lading to be put on board the said ship, And
the said Kimmins and Walkinshawe and Company were
then and there reputed and accounted to be the true and
Lawfull Owners and Proprietors of the said ship, and alsoe
of the said Lading of Butter, herrings and Salmon, and soe
this Deponent verily beleeveth they were, And saith they are Scotchmen and
Inhabitants of Glascoe, and subjects of the King of England
And they constituted the said Hart Master of the said ship, And
further deposeth that the said Lading of Butter Herrings and
Salmon was to be carried in the said ship to Bourdeaux in ffrance, and
there delivered to the ffactor of the said Kimmings Walkinshawe
and Company, and for their account, as this Deponent verily beleeveth
and the said ffactor was to relade the said ship with wines
which were to be brought in her to Glascoe, And further
deposeth not./:

To the 3d hee saith that after the said Lading of Butter herring
and Salmon was soe put on board the said ship shee set
saile with the same for Bourdeaux and in her Course
thither, in the moneth of October last (the day hee remembreth
not) the said ship abd Lading were met with and seized
upon the high sea, neere the Seemes upon the Coast of
France, by a ship called the Charles, whereof one Browne
was then Master and the said Browne and severall of his Company
declared in this Deponents Presence that Morgan Jones was their Captaine
and that hee was a Part Owner and setter forth of their Ship. or to that effect
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