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To the fifth hee cannot depose saving as a … To the fifth hee cannot depose saving as aforesaid./:
To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true./:
To the Interrogatories in the first places./: [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first hee saith hee was sommoned to come and<br />
Testify the truth in this busines, by the Comissioner<br />
of the Admiralty, and saith hee doth not expect to<br />
have any part or share of the ''Santa Maria'' or her Lading<br />
or any satisfaccion for the same, in case the same be<br />
Condemned, and to the rest negatively:/.
To the second hee saith that hee this Deponent was borne at<br />
Newcastle Upon Tyne and saith that hee can understand<br />
Dutch, and speaks it a little and saith for theise tenne<br />
yeeres last hee hath lived in Wapping and the parish<br />
of Stepney, saving such time as hee hath bin out at sea in the<br />
Service of the Comonwealth, And saith that hee<br />
Learned his Dutch by using the Dutch trade from<br />
Newcastle aforesaid and such Conversing with Dutch<br />
men at sea, and elsewhere, and further cannot depose./.
To the third hee saith hee is and has bin about twelve<br />
monethes last past Comander of the ffairfax ffrigot in<br />
the immediate service of thids Commonwealth in the Squadron under<br />
the Command of Admirall Stokes, and otherwise answereth negatively.
To the fourth hee never knew nor saw the said shipp the ''Saint Mary'' before<br />
the said [?time] of his seizure of her in the Bay of Gibraltar, and<br />
otherwise referreth himselfe to his foregoeing deposition.
To the fifth hee saith hee to his knowledge never saw the said Mexia de<br />
herera, hee being gonne ashore [atxx] Cadiz when the said shipp was<br />
seized as aforesaid, and otherwise hee referreth himselfe to his deposition<br />
aforegoing touching him.
To the 6th hee saith hee hath heard that the said shipp was set out<br />
and carried a cargo of goods from Amsterdam, and saith it is probable<br />
that the goods which were seized in her, were the proceed of the said<br />
outwards cargo, but knows not to whom either the outward cargo or<br />
goods seized doe belong otherwise than as aforesaid , and refers himselfe<br />
to his foregoing deposition.
To the 7th hee referreth himselfe to his foregoing deposition, where hee hath<br />
satisfied the same as farr as hee knoweth.
To the eighth hee saith that the quantities of the goods seized<br />
hee doth not remember, but referrs himselfe therin to an account thereof<br />
taken at Tolon by mr Aldworth agent there for the State, who received them<br />
into his possession, which this deponent [xxxxxxxxx] will be [xxxxxxxxx] brought<br />
into this Court and otherwise knoweth not.
To the 9th hee saith this deponent for his part hath not taken into custody<br />
any of the said shipps goods unlesse some few Monaco's of<br />
tobacco, which were so rotten that they at Tholon would not receive<br />
them Tholon would not receive<br />
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