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To the 11th hee saith saving his foregoein … To the 11th hee saith saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot answere/
To the 12th hee saith hee being none of the company of the ''Owners Adventure''<br />
nor of ''Greyhound'' nor soe much as seeing them after hee lost their Company<br />
at Sea as aforesayd untill hee sawe them in the River of Thames cannot<br />
answere anything to this Interrogatorie/
To the 13th for the reasons aforesayd hee cannot answere/
To the 14th hee saith hee hath knowne the interrogate damerell for these<br />
eight yeares last past, and knoweth that in that tyme hee hath gone severall<br />
voyages to Greeneland and is in this depenents judgement<br />
an able sea man and experienced in the Greeneland fishing and soe<br />
commonly Accompted/
To the 15th hee saith it concerneth him not to answere thereto for that hee<br />
hath not deposed to the contents of the article Interrogate/
To the 16th hee saith hee experimentally knoweth that the Ice at<br />
Greeneland will bee sometymes cloased and a while after in some<br />
measure open againe, and those that goe thither must watch such oportunities<br />
of the opening thereof./
To the last hee saith that hee knoweth the Ice in some places was (after<br />
the tyme Interrate) better to passe through to harbour then it was then,<br />
or before, And further for the reasons aforesayd hee cannot answere./
Repeated in Court before both Judges/
Nicolas Perkins [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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To 28th of March 1657 [CENTRE HEADING]
On the behalfe of John James}<br />
fforno and others of Paris}<br />
touching the shipp ''ffortune''}<br />
and lading.}
'''Bertrand Dibarbore''' of London Merchant, aged nine<br />
and twenty yeeres or thereabouts sworne before the right<br />
worshipfull Giles Sweit doctor of lawes surrogate (Carefully<br />
appointed) of the judges of the high Court of the Admiraltie<br />
of england, saith and deposeth<br />
by vertue of his oath.
That hee hath receive advice from his correspondents John James<br />
fforno, Michael Charpentiez and John Reynault all Merchants and<br />
citizens of Paris in ffrance, and order and authoritie (from them) to intimate<br />
and declare to this Court for the very truth, (as hee doth hereby) that<br />
ffrancis fforno alias van Obstal, and Lewes Reynault (otherwise called<br />
Isaac Rutherson) both Marchants of the citie of Paris aforesaid, being<br />
at present at Cadiz in Spaine, had by letters dated at Cadiz the fourth<br />
of this instant (new stile) advised them the said John James fforno, Micheal<br />
Charpentier and John Reynault, that they the said ffrancis fforno alias<br />
van Obstal and Lewes Reynault (alias Rutharson) had at Cadiz<br />
laden for account and adventure of there the said John James fforno, Michael Charpentier<br />
and John Reynault, on board a shipp called the ''ffortune'' (ffernando<br />
Gerardo Loro a spaniard Commander) of the burthen of a hundred and tenn<br />
tonnesn of a hundred and tenn<br />
tonnes +
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