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shee yeelded, after the frigot had made tw … shee yeelded, after the frigot had made two shotts towards he. And<br />
further hee cannot depose as hee saith.
To the Interrogatories in the second place. [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith there was a good quantitie of<br />
moneys in peeces of eight aboard the said shipp at the time of the said<br />
seizure in the coffers of the Captaine, passengers and mariners, amounting<br />
together to the summe or number of tenn or twelve thousand peeces of eight<br />
as the same was commonly said and reckoned to be by the passengers and<br />
persons that were aboard and had the same in their keeping before the<br />
seizure, and that the said money was in the said coffers above decks,<br />
and that besides the same in the Captaines cabben and otherwise, there was other money in a chest which the<br />
Captaine had betweene decks, into which this deponent saw him now and then put<br />
a bagge of money, but the quantitie that was therein hee saith hee<br />
knoweth not, And further hee saith hee cannot depose, saving that<br />
for the said moneys above decks, hee saith hee saw<br />
severall of the coffers (therein the same was) opened and the moneys in them.
To the second hee saith hee was presently upon the seizure taken out<br />
of the ''Peahen'' into the frigot the ''Nightingale'' commannded by the<br />
said Captaine lightfoot, and that being soe in the<br />
''Nightingale'' this deponent was thirtie five dayes or thereabouts<br />
in company of the said vessell the ''Peahen'', and at the end of the said<br />
space comming neere the coast of Ireland they the said shipps lost each other in the night<br />
by fowle weather. And further deposeth not saving what followeth.
To the third hee saith hee saw the mariners of the ''Nightingale'' upon their<br />
entring the ''Peahen'' breake open severall namely<br />
six or eight or thereabouts of the said chests and take moneys thereout, before<br />
this deponent was turned out of her into the frigot, but the names<br />
of any of those mariners, or other person that tooke any of the<br />
said moneys jee saith hee knoweth not, nor knoweth to whose hands<br />
it came, hee being soe suddanily turned out, and not having seene<br />
the said vessell the ''Peahen'' since her being separated by night and<br />
storme from the ''Nightingale''. And further cannot answer.
To the last hee saith hee cannot answer thereto otherwise then as aforesaud
p?XXX Notary Publicus] Interpreter. [LH SIDE]
[?Xedro ?Mige] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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