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of eight to amount unto between seaven and … of eight to amount unto between seaven and eight thousand<br />
pieces of eight; besides he sayth there were severall Jewells, and<br />
pearles, which the said Captain found in the said Spanish ship, and<br />
which he shewed to this deponent and acknowledged that he had them<br />
from thence. And saith that the said account being soe made, the<br />
said Captain tooke the said six pigs of plate and put them in<br />
his Counting house within his Cabbin, and the said wrought plate, and<br />
pieces of eight, he the said Captain put into two of the said chests<br />
and put the said two chests into his Cabbin, and the said jewells being<br />
a ruby-hatband, and another of them a rosury of one hundred<br />
and fifty beads of gold laid upon precious wood, and linked together with a<br />
gold chaine, the said Rosarie amounting in value to fifty pounds sterling<br />
or thereabouts. And further he cannot depose, saving there were alsoe<br />
severall hundred of pieces of eight, besides the predeposed, that were<br />
in chests upon the Decks of the Spanish ship and were plundered<br />
away by the ''Nightingales'' mariners/
To the Interrogatories./ [CENTRE HEADING]
Ad, 1u. et 2u. rendet negative pro parte sua et alr nescit./
Ad 3u. nescit./
Ad 4u. negative pro parte sua. Et alr nescit./
Ad 5. negative./
Ad ultra refert se ad predeposita sua, ubi ei satisfecit./
John R[?oo] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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