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Transcription

To the third he knoweth not further to answeare than
he hath predeposed

To the fourth Interrogatory he answereth that the interrate
John Viber was Boatswaine of the interrate shipp in her
outwards bound voyage as farr as the Downs, and
that he was found embeazealing or stealing away some
of the Merchants goods and running away with the said
goods in the skiffe belonging to the said shipp
and that by some of the shipps Company (who
pursued him in the longe boate) he the sayd Viber was
brought back, and by the producent Captaine Totty
his order putt into chaynes, but that afterwards he
was released from the sayd chaynes by the entreaty of
the sayd shipps Company And further he knoweth
not to answeare./

To the fifth Interrogatory he answereth that the sayd fower men
servants were in the service of the Commonwealth under
the Comand of Major Sedgewick as this Rendent
hath heard by some of the interrate shipp the Edward
and John her Company, And further referring
himselfe to what he hath predeposed he knoweth not
to answeare/

To the sixth Interrogatory he answereth that the shipp
interrate her tackle and cables were (in this Rendents
iudgement) sufficient and that he the Rendent did
not know nor hath heard that the producent hath received
primage and average for the voyage interrate
And further he cannot answeare/

John Norman [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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On the two and twentith day of August 1656

Rp. 12

John Elliott of the parish of Stepney in the
County of Middlesex Mariner, aged about 4[X GUTTER]
yeares a wittnes sworne and examined deposeth
as followeth/

To the seaventh article of the sayd allegation he deposeth
and saith that the producent Captaine Totty and One of the
Owners of the arlate shipp the Edward and John did on
or about the 26th or 27th dayes of June last past [?meet GUTTER]
with him this deponent and one Captaine Thomas [?Bennett GUTTER]
upon the old Exchange London, and desired them this deponent
and the sayd Bennett to take the paines and goe with [?him GUTTER
the sayd Totty and the Owner aboard the sayd shipp
the Edward and John, and that accordingly he this deponent
and the sayd Bennett did goe along with them unto
or neare Greenwich in the River of Thames where the
sayd shipp then lay at Anchor; and that they being
all come aboard the sayd shipp the sayd Captaine
Totty calld his Mate up, and asked him if they ( [?meaning GUTTER]
him the said Mate and the rest of the said shipps
Company) would unlade the goods and that the same
Mate answeared that the Cooper could tell what they
to doe and that afterwards the sayd Captaine Totty called
up the Cooper and asked him if they would unlade the
said