The voyage of the L'Annuntiata Buona Ventura

Silver, feathers, and various other merchandise from Algiers to Livorno. Storm and Jettison.

1 Cantara = 165 Rotoli

After the testimoniale was submitted the witnesses were examined upon interrogatories ostensibly provided by the merchants. It seems likely that these were simply pro forma questions put forward by their proctors, for just as the case was about to be concluded (a 'sentenza' had already been pronounced in June) it seems like their was an intervention which put the case back several stages. New interrogatories were produced as well as testimony from two Dutch passengers saying that they had both overheard the captain saying and seen with their own eyes, as seamen of long experience, that the ship was overladen when it left Algiers. This was denied by the witnesses in the new interrogatories. Despite these objections the procedure went ahead and a second sentence was produced in August.