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to the Barbados or other place where hee never was befor, observ[?ing GUTTER]
what latitude hee is in, and keepeing a true Accompt of his course, And
saith hee came to bee a wittnesse of the truth of his knowledge in this cause at the
request of the producent to whome or the Interrogate Read or any other the Owners
of the shipp Interrogate hee is noe way related And further hee cannot answere

To the 3 Interrogatorie hee saith hee was not in the voyage in question, nor can answere
anything to the effect of this Interrogatorie/

To the 4th 5th and 6th Interrogatories for that hee was not in the voyage in question
hee cannot answere thereto./

John Har[?ries] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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The 12th of July 1658./

Warner against Matson and how}

Rp

Captaine Thomas Taylor of Wapping Shipwright
aged 56 yeares or thereabouts sworne in this
cause and examined upon the Interrogatories ministred
on the part and behalf of the said Matson and how.

To the first Interrogatorie hee saith hee knoweth well
the shipp the Alexander interrogated and hath soe donne
for theise five or six yeares last, and saith shee is of the
burthen of three hundred tonnes or thereabouts, and will
carry soe much in tonnage, which hee knoweth being a
shipwright by trade, and having viewed and trimm[?e]d her./

To the second hee saith the said shipp the Alexander to be freighted is
worth (the freighters victualling and manning) the summe
of eightie five pounds per moneth for ordinary voyages,
which hee knoweth for the reason aforesaid.

To the third hee saith that Virginia Hogsheads are generally of
a farr greater bignes than other hogsheads, [XXX XXX] greater
than some of them are as bigg as our butts, and
saith that in the generalitie of them, three of them are
or make a tonne in wine caske and other such like
tonnage, which hee knoweth for the reasons aforesaid, and
for that hee hath interest in shipping that use the trade of
Virginia and hath often taken notice of the said Virginia
hogsheads, [XXX] hee saith there is a shipp lately come home
thence with Virginia hogsheads therein, two whereof
as this deponent hath bin informed
amount unto and doe containe a tonne in tonnage

Repeated before Collonel Cock./

Tho Taylor [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]