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to the Barbados or other place where hee n … to the Barbados or other place where hee never was befor, observ[?ing GUTTER]<br />
what latitude hee is in, and keepeing a true Accompt of his course, And<br />
saith hee came to bee a wittnesse of the truth of his knowledge in this cause at the<br />
request of the producent to whome or the Interrogate Read or any other the Owners<br />
of the shipp Interrogate hee is noe way related And further hee cannot answere
To the 3 Interrogatorie hee saith hee was not in the voyage in question, nor can answere<br />
anything to the effect of this Interrogatorie/
To the 4th 5th and 6th Interrogatories for that hee was not in the voyage in question<br />
hee cannot answere thereto./
John Har[?ries] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 12th of July 1658./
Warner against Matson and how}
'''Rp'''
'''Captaine Thomas Taylor''' of Wapping Shipwright<br />
aged 56 yeares or thereabouts sworne in this<br />
cause and examined upon the Interrogatories ministred<br />
on the part and behalf of the said Matson and how.
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith hee knoweth well<br />
the shipp the ''Alexander'' interrogated and hath soe donne<br />
for theise five or six yeares last, and saith shee is of the<br />
burthen of three hundred tonnes or thereabouts, and will<br />
carry soe much in tonnage, which hee knoweth being a<br />
shipwright by trade, and having viewed and trimm[?e]d her./
To the second hee saith the said shipp the ''Alexander'' to be freighted is<br />
worth (the freighters victualling and manning) the summe<br />
of eightie five pounds per moneth for ordinary voyages,<br />
which hee knoweth for the reason aforesaid.
To the third hee saith that Virginia Hogsheads are generally of<br />
a farr greater bignes than other hogsheads, [XXX XXX] greater<br />
than some of them are as bigg as our butts, and<br />
saith that in the generalitie of them, three of them are<br />
or make a tonne in wine caske and other such like<br />
tonnage, which hee knoweth for the reasons aforesaid, and<br />
for that hee hath interest in shipping that use the trade of<br />
Virginia and hath often taken notice of the said Virginia<br />
hogsheads, [XXX] hee saith there is a shipp lately come home<br />
thence with Virginia hogsheads therein, two whereof<br />
as this deponent hath bin informed<br />
amount unto and doe containe a tonne in tonnage
Repeated before Collonel Cock./
Tho Taylor [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]el Cock./
Tho Taylor [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] +
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