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To the Interrogatories [CENTRE HEADING]
T … To the Interrogatories [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first (hee shath bin putt in mind of the danger of an oath) And [?hee GUTTER]<br />
saith and answereth) by vertue of his oath. that hee hath lived in England for [?five] yeares<br />
last past or thereabouts, and before hee was upon the voyage and imployment aforesaid) in<br />
the Barbadas, Spaine and Barbarie for two yeares or thereabouts<br />
last before that, And saith hee equally favoureth the parties litigant in the [XXXX] of the[?ire] cause<br />
, ffor hee saith that if [XX XXX GUTTER]<br />
beare any malice in testifying in this cause he might have inferred [XXXX] passages<br />
done unto himself by the said Middleton in the time of the said voyage, which hee now<br />
forbeareth to relate, And further cannot answare./
To the second hee answareth negatively to every [?particular] thereof
To the third hee answareth that hee conceiveth that hee is not bound<br />
to declare his Estate as hee is a wittnes in this cause, And that he hath not received [?any GUTTER]<br />
reward nor doth expect any proffitt or advantage about the same And otherwise<br />
he answareth negatively.
To the fourth hee answareth negatively to every particuler in the said Interrogatory<br />
mentioned.
To the fifth hee answareth negatively as aforesaid
To the 6th hee answareth that hee did goe or saile in the said shipp during<br />
the voyage in question, (as ffactor or Supra Cargo) of the said Cargazon<br />
in manner as before hee hath deposed, [?mentioned] in his depositions<br />
to which hee referreth himself and more hee cannot answare.
To the 7th hee saith that hee is a Merchant by profession and hath bin<br />
(before the voyage in question) in the Streights) but [?now] att Tituan before<br />
the last time in the said voyage otherwise answareth negatively./
To the 8th hee saith that in some parts of Spaine opposite to Tituan<br />
Tobaccoes are held Contrabanda goods and such as were prohibited<br />
in some Ports of Spaine, (without License from the Estanqui[?r]o of ff[aXXX GUTTER]<br />
of the King of Spaine, and that the[?re] were Tobaccoes (so prohinited) in the said<br />
shipp when she lay in the Roade of Tituan, And hee conceiveth that at that time<br />
the Levant or Easterly wind did blow, but not so hard or feirce, but (as [XXX GUTTER]<br />
said) hee might have kept the Roade or att least not have gone out of the Streights<br />
but that also the said Middleton might have stopt in Gibalthar (sic) Roade as other shipps<br />
in the like case have done, And so have returned to Tituan within<br />
two or 3 dayes at most, And hee saith that after the said Middleton with the said shipp<br />
went from the Road of Tituan hee returned thither againe fifteene<br />
dayes after or thereabouts as hee remembreth And more hee cannot answare./
To the 9th hee saith that hee remembreth moe [XXX GUTTER]<br />
men Interrogate by their names unlesse it were ffleetwood if hee were the [XXX GUTTER]<br />
Carpenter of the shipp And further saveing his foresaid depositions to which hee<br />
referreth himself hee cannot answare or depose./.
To the last hee answareth that the said shipp the ''Elizabeth and<br />
Mary'' was and remained in the service and imployment of the said Thomas<br />
Batt deceased twelve or thirteene monthes or thereabouts which was as [XXX GUTTER]<br />
this rendant was upon that imployment in the voyage interrogated and more hee [?saith GUTTER]<br />
hee cannot answare or depose./
Repeated before doctor Clarke./
Peter St[?oner GUTTER] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]eter St[?oner GUTTER] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] +
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