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To the 11th hee saith hee sawe the sayd Cable and his shipp the ''dove'' arrested for the samages done to the ''Successe'' aforesayd And further referring him selfe to the Registry of this Court hee cannot depose To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true/ To the Interrogatories./ [CENTRE HEADING] To first Interrogatorie hee saith hee cometh to testifie in this cause at the request of de haze and Stock the producents and is promised nothing nor expecteth any thing for his testimony and saith hee is Owner only of one ferkin of butter and his cloathes and Instruments which were aboard the ''Successe'' when shee sunke And saith hee was Master of her and standing neere the mayne mast of the ''Successe'' when shee receaved her sayd hurt which soone afterwards caused her to sinke./ To the second hee saith the first tyme hee sawe the shipp the ''dove'' Interrogate was when shee came sayling towards the ''Successe'' and ranne upon her at the Nell and then sanke her in manner predeposed and saith hee sawe her afterwards divers tymes in the River of Newcastle while shee laye there mending her bowe, and divers tymes since in the River of Thames but how oft at either place hee knoweth not, and saith hee knoweth the Interrogant Cable and hath knowne him only since the damage in question done videlicet since this deponent spake first with him about the same at Newcastle in the moneth of August last And further cannot answere./ To the 3 Interrogatorie hee saith the Nell is a place which lyeth in the direct course for New Castle and most shipps thither bound passe over it and the same is as hee guesseth it about seaven or eight leagues in length more or lesse, and saith when the damage prede= posed of was done which was about 2 of the clock in the norning of the 8th of August last it was soe light that this deponent and company could well discerne the shipp the ''dove'' aforesayd a good while before shee came neere the vessell the ''Successe'' in soe much that this deponent had tyme to call up two of his men and a boy of his company that were a sleepe in their Cabins and they rose and came upon the deck to helpe to stay the ''Successe'' that if possible shee might have gone cleere of the ''dove'', before the ''dove'' ranne upon her And to the rest of the Interrogatorie hee answereth negatively. To the 4th and 5th Interrogatories hee saith hee was the first that espied the ''dove'' comming upon the ''Successe'' and cryed out to her company in manner predeposed And saith the same being about 2 a clock in the morning on the 8th of last August that the damage predeposed of was done the weather then [?was] darke but this deponent and his precontest Andrew Cristi and others of the Company did perfectly see the picture of an Angell in the head, and the picture of a dove in the sterne of the shipp which soe ranne upon the vessell ''Successe'' and sunke her, and saith the weather was something foggie but not then soe darke but it was possible to take notice of and know a shipp, it being soe neere as the ''dove'' then was And further saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot answere saving hee saith hee was one of those which did espie the Angell and the dove upon the shipp ''dove'' at the tyme of the samage in question, and this deponent declared to his Company and others of this deponents company who alsoe sawe the same did declare to this deponent, before they came to Newcastle that the shipp that did the damage had an Angell on her head and a dove in her sterne and this deponent did declare the same to his precontest Andrew Cristi, and John Rowe and James hales./ To the 6th Interrogatorie hee saith hee never endeavoured to make any of the Company of the ''dove'' drinke or tempte them with any money to make any confession to the effect Interrogated nor knoweth of any body else that soe did And otherwise saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot answere./ To the 7th Interrogatorie hee saith hee never taxed any other Master of a shipp with doeing the damage in question save the sayd Cable, neither did this rendent say at any tyme that hee knew not what shipp or vessell did the same And further hee cannot answere./ Repeated before doctor Clarke david adamson [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] Thus farr cleared with the Judges and Registers and made up the proctors accounts.
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