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To the third he knoweth not further to ans … To the third he knoweth not further to answeare than<br />
he hath predeposed
To the fourth Interrogatory he answereth that the interrate<br />
John Viber was Boatswaine of the interrate shipp in her<br />
outwards bound voyage as farr as the Downs, and<br />
that he was found embeazealing or stealing away some<br />
of the Merchants goods and running away with the said<br />
goods in the skiffe belonging to the said shipp<br />
and that by some of the shipps Company (who<br />
pursued him in the longe boate) he the sayd Viber was<br />
brought back, and by the producent Captaine Totty<br />
his order putt into chaynes, but that afterwards he<br />
was released from the sayd chaynes by the entreaty of<br />
the sayd shipps Company And further he knoweth<br />
not to answeare./
To the fifth Interrogatory he answereth that the sayd fower men<br />
servants were in the service of the Commonwealth under<br />
the Comand of Major Sedgewick as this Rendent<br />
hath heard by some of the interrate shipp the ''Edward<br />
and John'' her Company, And further referring<br />
himselfe to what he hath predeposed he knoweth not<br />
to answeare/
To the sixth Interrogatory he answereth that the shipp<br />
interrate her tackle and cables were (in this Rendents<br />
iudgement) sufficient and that he the Rendent did<br />
not know nor hath heard that the producent hath received<br />
primage and average for the voyage interrate<br />
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<br />
County of Middlesex Mariner, aged about 4[X GUTTER]<br />
yeares a wittnes sworne and examined deposeth<br />
as followeth/
To the seaventh article of the sayd allegation he deposeth<br />
and saith that the producent Captaine Totty and One of the<br />
Owners of the arlate shipp the ''Edward and John'' did on<br />
or about the 26th or 27th dayes of June last past [?meet GUTTER]<br />
with him this deponent and one Captaine Thomas [?Bennett GUTTER]<br />
upon the old Exchange London, and desired them this deponent<br />
and the sayd Bennett to take the paines and goe with [?him GUTTER<br />
the sayd Totty and the Owner aboard the sayd shipp<br />
the ''Edward and John'', and that accordingly he this deponent<br />
and the sayd Bennett did goe along with them unto<br />
or neare Greenwich in the River of Thames where the<br />
sayd shipp then lay at Anchor; and that they being<br />
all come aboard the sayd shipp the sayd Captaine<br />
Totty calld his Mate up, and asked him if they ( [?meaning GUTTER]<br />
him the said Mate and the rest of the said shipps<br />
Company) would unlade the goods and that the same<br />
Mate answeared that the Cooper could tell what they<br />
to doe and that afterwards the sayd Captaine Totty called<br />
up the Cooper and asked him if they would unlade the<br />
said if they would unlade the<br />
said +
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