HCA 13/71 f.343v Annotate

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To the 8th hee cannot depose

To the 9th saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot depose

To the 10th hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true/

To the Interrogatories [CENTRE HEADING]

To the first hee saith hee was required by the producent to testifie the
truth in this cause who gave him then 12 d towards his charges and more hee
expecteth not nor is promised And to the rest of the Interrogatorie he answereth
negatively./

To the 2 saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot answere thereto

To the 3 hee cannot depose/

To the 4th hee cannot depose/

To the 5th hee cannot depose/

To the 6th hee saith hee cannot depose only hee knoweth it is usuall that
Masters of Shipps have primage and averidge allowed to them and their
Companyes but whether Tottey had any allowed him for the voyage in
question hee knoweth not./

Repeated before Colonel Cock/

Tho: Bennett [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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The same day./ [CENTRE HEADING]

Examined upon the sayd allegation/

Rp. 3

George Tanton of Ratcliff high way in the parish of
Stepney and County of Middlesex Mariner aged forty three
yeares or thereabouts a wittnesse sworne and examined saith
and deposeth as followeth videlicet./

To the first second third 4th 5th 6th and 7th articles of the sayd allegation
hee saith that upon Thursday next after Midsomer day last past or
thereabouts the arlate John Tottey came to this deponent and told him this deponent
that his shipp (meaning the Edward and John arlate) layd at or neere Greenwich [?hole GUTTER]
and that there had a lighter layne two or three dayes to take in goods which were
on board and belonging to his freighters, and that his shipps company would
not unlade and deliver the sayd goods into the sayd lighter and therefore desyred
this deponent and seaven others to come on board the sayd shipp and helpe to
unlade the sayd goods whereupon this deponent and one Richard Kenney and
[BLANK IN MANUSCRIPT] Richardson James Wallis [BLANK IN MANUSCRIPT] holsted and others to the [?number GUTTER]
of seaven beside this deponent went aboard the sayd shipp with the sayd Tottey [?to GUTTER]
unlade the sayd goods out of the sayd shipp into the sayd lighter, and the
sayd Tottey in order thereto spake to his shipps company to open the hatches
that the goods might bee delivered on board the sayd lighter but the sayd
shipps Company refused to open them and to worke about [?XX GUTTER]
the delivery of them, but the sayd Tottey notwithstanding caused his servant
to open the sayd hatches and this deponent and the sayd other seaven men thereupon
fell to worke and unladed divers goods from aboard the sayd shipp and
put them into the sayd lighter and the sayd Tottey perceiving that his
Shipps company would not helpe to worke and that hee had not a sufficient number