Uploaded image; transcribed on 16/05/2015
that they must bee laden away in cloade lighters before they can come at the course goods afaine to put into open lyters, for that hee knoweth that it is usuall when a parcell of fine goods [?come] if the shipps Company bee in hand with ladeing course goods into an open lighter to put the fine goods betweene decks, and finish the ladeing of the open lighter with course goods which arise next (the fine goods being soe removed) and hee knoweth the Company of the ''Smirna ffactor'' did soe before they had fully unladen their sayd shipp And further to this Interrogatorie hee cannot answere./ To the third Interrogatorie hee saith the goods in controversie were soe farr as this rendent could and did observe were outwardly well conditioned and free from damage by wett when they were delivered out of the shipp ''Smirna ffactor'' into the open lyter Interrogate and beleeveth they were soe And to the rest of the Interrogatories hee answereth negatively well knowing noe words to the effect Interrogate were spoken, nor any other words but what hee hath predeposed/ To the 4th Interrogatorie hee saith hee was intrusted by the sayd Mr Mills as a servant in the lighter where in the damage controverted happened and is the sayd Mills his servant for weekely wages soe longe as this rendent and the sayd Mills can agree, and saith hee is not concerned as hee beleeveth) in the damage in question nor shall or ought to suffer blame therein as hee beleeveth for that hee well knoweth the same happened by noe neglect or fault of him this respondent, but happened after this rendent and the sayd Purse were by the order of the sayd hughes his mate dismissed and appointed to come the next morning and after the sayd hughes his sayd mate had told this deponent that hee and the sayd shipp the ''Smirna ffactors'' company would take care of the sayd lighter till morning and further hee cannot answere/ To the 5th Interrogatorie hee saith hee this rendent and the sayd Purse were the lighter men intrusted by the sayd Mills with the open lighter Interrogate but saith they did not deserte the same without leave when the sayd hudsons Company went to lade fine goods into the cloase lyter, for as is predeposed the sayd hudsons mate first caused the sayd open lyter to bee loosened from the shipp side and vered her downe lower by the sayd shipp side towards the sterne to make roome for the cloase lyter and withall the sayd mate told this rendent that there should bee noe more goods laden aboard the open lighter till the next morning and told this deponent hee and his company would take care of her till next morning and willed this rendent and the sayd Purse to goe, and come againe the next morning early, and thereupon this rendent and the sayd Purse
[[File:IMG_0238_copy.JPG|thumbnail|800px|none|link=Special:TranscriptionInterface/IMG_0238_copy.JPG|[[:HCA 13/73|HCA 13/73]] f.312v: Right click on image for full size image in separate window
HCA 13/73 f.312v Annotate# QUERY3a1c4cb816cd2b781e7cf10a74c25cf5
[[Parent volume::HCA 13/73]] [[Folio::312]] [[Side::Recto]]
HCA 13/73 f.312v Annotate# QUERY8d5ba7c3d0c368609d6a1d57eb6fcfd5
[[Parent volume::HCA 13/73]] [[Folio::313]] [[Side::Recto]]
HCA 13/73 f.312v Annotate# QUERY5259d84871d0ec29eb40b2eb5e7d1dcc