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To the 3 saving his foregoing deposition hee cannot more particularly
answere to this Interrogatorie/

To the 4th hee saith hee did not see the goods or hydes landed at
Southampton but sawe them there dryeing and heard ˹and beleeveth˺ that they came out
of the Southampton Merchant whereof Mr Edward Millbury was Master
And further to this Interrogatorie saving his foregoing deposition hee
cannot answere./

To the 5th hee saith hee remembreth the building of the shipp the
Southampton Merchant and saith shee was built as hee remembreth about
seaven or eight yeares since and therefore hee beleeveth what
dammage happened to her could not bee through age or rottennesse
shee being at her arrivall at Southampton with the sayd skinnes
but sixe yeare old or thereabout And further to this Interrogatorie hee
cannot answere./

Repeated before Doctor Godolphin/

Esaiah Gardner [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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The 28th day of January 1656/ [CENTRE HEADING]

Examined on the Interrogatories on the behalfe
of the sayd Mr Bulkley./

Rp. 3

Edward Millbury of Southampton Mariner
Master of the Southampton Merchant aged thirty
three yeares or thereabouts a wittnesse sworne
and examined saith and dep before the right
Worshipfull John Godolphin Doctor of Lawes one of
the Judges of the high Court of Admiralty of
England saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet./

To the first Interrogatorie hee saith hee well knew the Southampton
Merchant Interrogate ˹the tyme Interrogate˺ being Master of her ˹during˺ the voyage in question
and saith the sayd shipp was at New England in the moneth of Iuly
1654 and came from thense in August next following bound for dover
or London./

To the 2 Interrogatorie hee saith hee being Master of the sayd shipp as aforesayd
knoweth that whilst shee was at New England one Mr John Jolliff did
as Factor to the Interrogate William Bulkley cause to bee laden aboard
the sayd shipp two thousand West India hides for the sole and proper
Accompt of the sayd Bulkley and consiyned to bee deliuered to
him at Dover or London according to the sayd Bulkleys order which
hee should give at the tyme of the sayd shipps arriuall at either of
those places And saith the sayd hydes at the tyme of their ladeing
were in this deponents Judgement and soe farr as hee could
XXX good and Merchantable and free from any dammage by wett
And further hee canot answere saving hee saith hee deposeth the premisses
of certaine knowledge for that hee signed bills of ladeing for the sayd hydes, as Master/.

To the 3 Interrogatorie hee saith the sayd shipp departed from her last Port in
New England on the twentie fowerth day of August 1654 on the
voyage in question and was at such her departure of this deponents
certayne knowledge a strong and stanch shipp and in good condition to
performe

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