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To the first, second, third fourth and fif … To the first, second, third fourth and fifth articles hee saith and deposeth that hee<br />
well knew the arlate Edward Waterman and Thomas Tailer whilest they lived<br />
and well knew the shipp the ''John'' arlate, and that the time articulate hee<br />
this deponent was master of her, and had the charge and command as master<br />
committed unto him by her owners, of which owners hee saith that John Southwood<br />
arlate was one, and that within the said time the said shipp wanted and stood<br />
in need of ordnance for her necessarie defence and safetie, and that the said<br />
John Southwood one of her owners, telling this deponent her master that hee<br />
the said Southwood had contracted for tenn peeces of iron ordnance for the said<br />
shipp, ordered him to fetch them from the key of the said Thomas Tailer<br />
where hee said they were ready, and thereupon this deponent went to the said<br />
key of the said Thomas Tailer in Wapping, and received the said tenn peeces of iron ordnance of the said mr<br />
Tailer and by his order in or about the month of ffebruary 1653 English stile<br />
and tooke an account of the weight thereof, comming as hee saith to eight thousand<br />
eightie eight hundred weight or thereabouts, and carried and caused them<br />
to be carrried aboard the said shipp then lying neere the said key within the Jurisdiction of this Court and that<br />
in the said shipp they were disposed and placed to and for her necessarie<br />
use and defence, and were bought and rovided to that purpose. And saith<br />
that as this deponent then understood, the said tenn guns were bought of the said<br />
Tailer, and that hee was to tha time owner of them, and as being such<br />
owner hee delivered them to this deponent for the use aforesaid, but since<br />
hee this deponent hath bin informed that the said mr waterman was owner<br />
of five of them. And further that there were then alsoe severall [?XXXX] carriages<br />
received from the said Tailer from his said key to that use and carried aboard the said<br />
shipp by order of the said Southwood, but how many carriages hee knoweth not,<br />
now after soe long time passed, And saith that both the said Southwood and this<br />
deponent have severall times since acknowledged the receipt of the said guns<br />
and carriages from the said Tailer who was commonly said to be owner<br />
thereof, and saith this deponent was the foresaid time commonly accounted<br />
master and the said Southwood part owner of the said shipp. And further<br />
hee cannot depose.
To the sixth hee saith that the said tenn iron guns or peeces of ordnance<br />
and the said carriages were used and imployed in and aboard the said shipp for her<br />
defence and that shee had noe other ordnance in her for all the time after<br />
that this deponent continued master of her, And further hee cannot depose.
To the seaventh hee saith that the said ordnance at the time of the said delivery<br />
were worth sixteene shillings per hundred for every hundred weight thereof<br />
and the said carriages worth fourtie shillings a peece one with another, and<br />
after that rate hee saith they might have bin sold to others, And further hee<br />
cannot depose.
To the eighth hee referreth himselfe to his foregoeing deposition and further deposeth<br />
not, saving the said Southwood hath since acknowledged the receipt of the said guns and<br />
carriages to the use of the said shipp, and that hee was indebted to the said Tailer therefore
To the nineth hee saith that the said Southwood or the said shipp ought to make satisfaction<br />
for the said ordnance and carriages and not this deponent, hee the said<br />
Southwood being as aforesaid a part owner of her, and the said goods being delivered<br />
by his order to the said shipps use, neither hath payment bin required of this<br />
deponent, hee not being liable thereto. And further hee cannot depose.
To the tenth hee saith the said Thomas Tailer is since deceased, And further<br />
hee cannot depose.
To the eleaventh hee saith the arlate humphrey Hooke whilest hee lived was a subiect of<br />
this Commonwealth.
To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true.
Toith his foregoeing deposition is true.
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