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Transcription

To the 11th hee saith hee sawe the sayd Cable and his shipp
the dove arrested for the samages done to the Successe aforesayd And further
referring him selfe to the Registry of this Court hee cannot depose

To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true/

To the Interrogatories./ [CENTRE HEADING]

To first Interrogatorie hee saith hee cometh to testifie in this cause at the request of de haze
and Stock the producents and is promised nothing nor expecteh any thing for his testimony
and saith hee is Owner only of one ferkin of butter and his cloathes
and Instruments which were aboard the Successe when shee sunke And saith hee was Master
of her and standing neere the mayne mast of the Successe when shee receaved her
sayd hurt which soone afterwards caused her to sinke./

To the second hee saith the first tyme hee sawe the shipp the dove Interrogate was when
shee came sayling towards the Successe and ranne upon her at the Nell and
then sanke her in manner predeposed and saith hee sawe her afterwards divers tymes
in the River of Newcastle while shee laye there mending her bowe, and divers tymes since
in the River of Thames but how oft at either place hee knoweth not, and saith hee knoweth the
Interrogant Cable and hath knowne him only since the damage in question done videlicet since
this deponenty spake first with him about the same at Newcastle in the moneth of August
last And further cannot answere./

To the 3 Interrogatorie hee saith the Nell is a place which lyeth in the direct course for New
Castle and most shipps thither bound passe over it and the same is as hee guesseth it
about seaven or eight leagues in length more or lesse, and saith when the damage prede=
posed of was done which was about 2 of the clock in the norning of the 8th of August
last it was soe light that this deponent and company could well discerne the shipp the
dove aforesayd a good while before shee came neere the vessell the Successe in soe
much that this deponent had tyme to call up two of his men and a boy of his company
that were a sleepe in their Cabins and they rose and came upon the deck to helpe to stay
the Successe that if possible shee might have gone cleere of the dove, before the
dove ranne upon her And to the rest of the
Interrogatorie hee answereth negatively.

To the 4th and 5th Interrogatories hee saith

To the 6th Interrogatorie hee saith hee never endeavoured to make any of the Company of the
dove drinke or tempte them with any money to make any confession to the effect Interrogated
nor knoweth of any body else that soe did And otherwise saving his foregoeing deposition
hee cannot answere./

To the 7th Interrogatorie hee saith hee never taxed any other Master of a shipp with doeing
the damage in question save the sayd Cable, neither did this rendent say at any tyme
that hee knew not what shipp or vessell did the same And further hee cannot
answere./

Repeated before doctor Clarke

david adamson [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

Thus farr cleared with the Judges and Registers and made up the
proctors accounts.