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To the 7th hee saith hee hath used sea voy … To the 7th hee saith hee hath used sea voyages sometymes as<br />
a Cooper and sometymes as a mariner these foreteene yeares past and hath in that tyme receaved his part of primage and Averidge for many voyages and knoweth that<br />
it is a thing constantly allowed to Master and Mariners over<br />
and above their wages, as an encouragement, and alsoe, to binde<br />
them to pay what dammages happens through their neglect, either<br />
by badd stowage, imbeselment, or want of pumpeing or the<br />
like, And saith hee this deponenet hath receaved noe share of primage and<br />
Averidge for the voyage in question, nor beleeveth that any of the<br />
rest of the shipps company have receaved any, And saith hee<br />
sawe one Syon Hill the sayd Tottyes Clarke demand<br />
primage and Averidge of the freighters for the sayd voyage, and [XXXXX GUTTER]<br />
some part thereof for the sayd Tottyes use, And further hee cannot<br />
depose./
To the 8th hee saith hee referreth himself to the Registrie of<br />
this Court and further cannot depose
To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true/
To the Interrogatories./
To the first Interrogatorie the danger of periurie being declared unto<br />
him as is required, hee saith hee was one of the ''Edward and John''<br />
her Company the voyage in question, and that Captaine Totty<br />
is by this suite sued for this rendents wages, as he is for<br />
others of the sayd shipps company./
To the 2 hee saith hee hath heard and beleeveth that Captaine Totty<br />
was sued in the Barbados for the horse Interrogate, and<br />
condemned to pay for him, and further saving his foregoing<br />
deposition hee cannot answere/
To the 3 hee saith soe farr as ever hee observed the boatswaine<br />
in all voyages had the sole Care and charge of taking in all<br />
goods and delivery of them out, and doth usually keepe a booke to that<br />
purpose, and saith after goods are laden and stowed if the shipps<br />
company bee entered into whole pay and not before they are all obliged to take<br />
what care they can of all goods on board<br />
the shipp And further hee cannot answere/
To the 4th hee saith hee did not see the Interrogate Viber imbezell<br />
any lead, deale bords, or pipe staves, or roapes, nor hath soe<br />
deposed And further cannot answere otherwise then before hee hath<br />
deposed./
To the 5th hee saith hee was not at the tryall Interrogate And therefore<br />
cannot answere to this Interrogatorie/
To the last hee saith saving his foregoing deposition wherein hee hath<br />
soe farr as hee can satisfied the contents of this Interrogatorie hee cannot<br />
answere otherwise than negatively for his part, and further cannot answere<br />
not knowing of any violence offered to any labourers by any of the sayd<br />
shipps company nor of any threatning speeches given them to the [?effect]t [?Interrogate/ GUTTER]
Repeated before Collonel Cock
John Watson [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]nel Cock
John Watson [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] +
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