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to this article hee cannot depose saving h … to this article hee cannot depose saving his precedent deposition and saving hee<br />
beleeveth the respective summes schedulate are due to the respective persons schedulate for<br />
their respective wages./
To the 7th hee saith hee referreth him selfe to the Registry of the court for<br />
probate of wills and graunting Administrations. And further cannot depose
To the 8th hee referreth him selfe to the Registry of this Court and further<br />
cannot depose/
To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true./
To the Interrogatories./ [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith hee expecteth to receave<br />
his wages after the rate of thirty foower shillings a moneth of the Executrix<br />
of the sayd Keeble the Master hee the sayd Keeble and his Mate in behalfe of<br />
the Owners hyring this deponent) or else of the Owners, which of them hath<br />
most right to pay the same and for the rest of the Interrogatorie hee hath satisfied the<br />
contents thereof in his foregoeing deposition soe farr as hee can./
To the 2 hee saith the reason of his this deponents deserting the service of<br />
the sayd shipp us for that hee, and the sayd Sandford, and others of her company<br />
were as aforesayd kept prisoner aboard the dunkirke man of warr, till such<br />
tyme as they gott shoare upon Parrole, by which meanes hee and<br />
they never came to a sight of the sayd shipp ''Elizabeth and dorothy'' whereby<br />
to goe againe aboard her and serve in her, and hath not receaved his<br />
wages but hopeth to recover it if the parties in this suite doe recover theirs, and<br />
to the rest of the Interrogatorie hee answereth negatively for<br />
that hee knoweth the master and all the sayd shipps company did doe their true endeavour to<br />
defend the sayd shipp and ladeing and that the Company did fight and not reduse to<br />
traverse the gunnes but traverse them and doe their utmost to defend the sayd shipp<br />
and saith the Interrogate henry Kenyon did not take downe the aunthient<br />
nor cry out for quarter till hee was commanded soe to doe by the sayd<br />
William Blunt the masters mate and Part Owner of the shipp./
To the last videlicet the 3d hee saith hee did not desert the sayd shipp nor soe much<br />
as knew shee was retaken by the English till after hee came into England<br />
upon his parrolle nor did any of the rest who were prisoners, and saith if<br />
hee had knowne where to have gone to her before her departure from England<br />
againe, hee would have returned into the service of her, and soe hee verily<br />
beleeveth would the sayd Sandforth and the rest who were prisoners have done./<br />
the marke of the sayd
'''I-I-I'''
John Worke [MARKE, RH SIDE]
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The same day [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined upon the sayd allegation<br />
'''Rp. 2us'''
'''James Massey''' of Ratcliff in the parish of Stepney and County<br />
of Middlesex mariner aged forty one yeeres or thereabouts a<br />
Wittnesse sworne and examined saith and deposeth as<br />
followeth videlicet./oseth as<br />
followeth videlicet./ +
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