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To the 1: 2: 3: 4th and 5th articles of the sayd allegation hee saith
that hee this deponent being a porter usually imployed by the Commissioners
for prize goods, well knoweth the sayd Commissioners had lying in a warehouse
at Ralphes Key certaine baggs of ginger to the quantitie of three hundred
baggs or thereabouts, which they sold off to severall persons whose names this
deponent knoweth not, And saith that at severall tymes severall persons did come
and by warrant demande, and receaved out of the sayd whole 300 baggs or thereabouts, (by
the deliverie of this deponent and his contests John Betton Edward Sherwin
and George Greenewood and other porters imployed to that purpose by the sayd
Commissioners) severall baggs of ginger, videlicet at one tyme 40 baggs, at
an other tyme an hundred baggs, and saith there were alsoe by this deponent
and his sayd contests and other porters imployed by the sayd Commissioners
two other parcells of ginger the one of one hundred baggs and the other
of sixty baggs weighed out of the sayd warehouse where the sayd
300 and odd baggs laye and from thence removed and sett by in an other warehouse next adioyning for two persons whose
names hee alsoe knoweth not who, as hee hath heard had
bought them of the sayd Commissioners, And further hee cannot depose
saving hee saith that the sayd severall parcells were
by this deponent and his sayd Contests and the other porters impartially
taken out of the whole according as the sacks lay without picking or chooseing out of any as every one came to require their parcell,
soe that whoseoever came first for their parcell could have bnor had noe more benefitt by
receiving the same first parcell then they have whose parcells are not yet fetched
away frm the sayd warehouse, And further hee cannot depose

To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true./

To the Interrogatories./ [CENTRE HEADING]

To the first hee saith hee cometh to testifie being soe required by
the Commissioners for prize goods, and saith hee hath noe share or interest in the
ginger Interrogated, nor is none of the warehouse keepers Interrogated, but sawe the
ginger in question divers tymes within the tyme Interrogate, in the warehouse
where it lay at Ralphes Key, by reason of his imployment as a porter in delivery
of goods sokd by the sayd Commissioners, but how often hee sawe it or was
in the sayd warehouse hee remembreth not./

To the 2 hee saith, that the whole parcell Interrogated conteyned about three hundred and odd
baggs of ginger, and that hee knoweth not that the same was ever allotted, nor
whose lott was first, if it were allotted, nor who by name bought any of the
ginger not being privie to the buying of any of it, and saith they to whome
this deponent and his Contests and other the sayd Commissioners porters delivered
the hundred and forty baggs of the sayd ginger in manner predeposed receaved the same without casting
any lotts (soe farr as this deponent knoweth) and left the rest in the sayd
warehouse for the other two who had bought the same, And further hee cannot
answere saving hee saith hee this deponent was present at the delivery of
all the baggs of ginger that was delivered out of the sayd three hundred and odd baggs

To the third hee cannot answere./

To the 4th Interrogatorie hee saith hee referreth to his foregoeing deposition
to the allegation and further cannot answere saveing hee saith noe ginger
was