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To the 2 Interrogatorie hee saith the ''Pr … To the 2 Interrogatorie hee saith the ''Prosperous'' carried from Southampton tenn or<br />
twelve great shott and that hee this deponent provided at ffoy about a dozen great<br />
shell morre, and further to this Interrogatorie saving his foregoeing deposition hee<br />
cannot answere./
To the 3 Interrogatorie hee saith that the ''Constant Warwick'' a man of warr belonging<br />
to this Comonwealth was about a league and a halfe and better to the Leewards of<br />
the ''Prosperous'' when shee was seized, And to the rest of the Interrogatorie<br />
hee answereth negatively well knowing as a foresayd that for the reasons before<br />
expressed though shee had had much more powder and amunition than shee had shee could<br />
not have continued fight longer than shee did nor have avoided being taken/
To the 4 Interrogatorie hee saith hee cannot answere not knowing what the<br />
Cargoe Interrogate was worth the tyme Interrogate, but beleeveth the same<br />
was then worth about five or six hundred pounds./
To the 5 Interrogatorie hee saith hee knoweth the Interrogate william<br />
Tompkins and Christopher Rogers and saith they both of them went in the sayd<br />
shipp, Tompkins as Pilott, and Rogers as Gunner of her the voyage in question,<br />
And saith hee hath knowne the sayd Tompkins for about three yeares last past<br />
and the sayd Rogers for about Tenn yeares last past and saith during their<br />
knowledge of them they have bin Accompted honest men And further to<br />
this Interrogatorie hee cannot answere/
To the sixth Interrogatorie hee saith hee is worth a hundred pounds his debts<br />
paid and saith hee cometh to testifie in this cause being soe required by<br />
the producents Mills and Richards and saith the presents beare his necessary<br />
charges coming to London, and attending to bee examined, and soe home againe,<br />
but what that will amount unto hee knoweth not, and saith hee hath receaved nothing<br />
nor expecteth any thing for his testimony nor is instructed what to<br />
testifie./
To the 7th Interrogatorie hee saith, that there were present when the sayd<br />
horne, Cornelius and Richbell did subscribe the noate predeposed and mentioned<br />
this deponent and the foresayd James Wheeler and an other person whose<br />
name hee knoweth not who was a drawer in the Taverne in Southampton<br />
where the same was subscribed and some others whose names hee remembreth not And further to this Interrogatorie saving<br />
his foregoeing deposition hee cannot answere otherwise than negatively/
George Garnham [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
Repeated before doctor Godolphin/
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The same day
Examined upon the sayd allegation./
'''Rp. 2us'''
'''Christopher Rogers''' of Portsmouth in hampshire<br />
Mariner Gunner of the shipp the ''Prosperous'' aged fiftie<br />
yeares or thereabouts a wittnes sworne and examined<br />
saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet./
To the first article of the sayd allegation hee saith that hee goeing gunner ofgation hee saith that hee goeing gunner of +
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