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all in a miserable condition in a strange … all in a miserable condition in a strange place, destitute of friends or<br />
moneys for their necessarie relief, and there this deponent was examined<br />
but by what aithority hee knoweth not. All and singular the premisses hee<br />
knoweth and deposeth by sadd experience. And further cannot depose/
To the 9th hee saith, his foregoeing deposition is true./
To the Crosse Interrogatories:/:-
To the first hee saith, hee cometh of his owne accord to declare the<br />
trueth of his knowledge in this Cause, and that hee hath an eighth part or share in<br />
the said shipp ''Saint Peter'', and expecteth by decree of this Court to have restitution<br />
thereof and reparation for his losses sustained by the Plunder aforesaid and<br />
freight due for the wynes and goods laden aboard the same, And otherwise<br />
negatively, saving that the Wittnesses produced and examined, or to be examined<br />
in this Cause, were and are persons belonging to the said shipp, and are to have<br />
satisfaction for their necessarie charges in attending their Examination<br />
about the same. And further cannot depose./
To the second hee saith, hee cannot speake nor doeth hee well understand<br />
the french tongue, and saith hee hath been severall Voiages and at severall<br />
places and ports in ffrance, but how maine (sic) tymes, or how long hee hath<br />
continued at those places at one time, hee now remembreth not, for that<br />
his journal booke is taken away by the seizors/
To the third hee saith, That there were this deponent and other dutch<br />
Mariners aboard the said shipp ''Saint Peter'' at the time of her said seizure, and<br />
chase interrate, and that there then was one french Mariner aboard the same<br />
who this deponent had entertained at Bourdeaux in the place of another<br />
dutchman who had deserted the said shipps service, And saith that the said<br />
shipp was at the time of the first Chase interrate in her direct Course<br />
so farr as the wind and weather then served for Pontereaux the place of her<br />
then intended discharge, And further or otherwise (saving his foregoeing deposition)<br />
hee cannot depose./.
To the fourth Interrogatorie hee saith, That his said said (sic) shipp was towed to the<br />
Rocks interrate by two french shallops, and frenchmen therein, and by no<br />
others, And to the rest of the said Interrogatories negatively, referring himselfe to<br />
his precedent deposition./:-
To the 5th hee referreth himself to his foregoeing deposition. And otherwise<br />
negatively to every part thereof/
To the 6th hee saith, Thaty in case the said shipp ''Saint Peter'' and lading had<br />
safely arrived at Pontereux, the Pylott interrate was by this deponent<br />
intended to be left there, and saith this examinate hath often times heard that<br />
Merchants and factors in ffrance have provided and procured Pilots to<br />
conduct the shipps they had laden from place to place, And saith That hee<br />
this examinate was not present at the accord betweene the ffreighters and<br />
Pylott interrate, And therefore cannot further depose./
To the 7th hee saith, That to the best of this rendents remembrance, the shotts<br />
from the great gunns interrate were made when the said shipp ''Saint Peter'' was<br />
fastned to the rocks interrate, And otherwise saving his foregoing deposition<br />
hee cannot depose/:-eposition<br />
hee cannot depose/:- +
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