HCA 13/72 f.243v Annotate

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manner aforesayd was the cause of the same And further hee cannot
depose./

To the 4th hee saith hee being boatswaine and aboard the voyage in question knoweth
that the arlate Blake did make all possible speede with the sayd shipp Industry
in her outward voyage after hee had receaved his ladeing and the arlate Mr Page
his order to depart from Gravesend, and whereas the sayd Page was to send letters
to the Canaries by the sayd shipp, and had a determination to have sent the arlate
Mr Pilgrim to goe over in the sayd shipp to the Canaries the sayd Blake when the
sayd shipp came into the downes sent this deponents precontest Thomas Anneley who was
his Mate ashoare to deale to see whether the sayd letters and the sayd Pilgrim [?were GUTTER]
come according to appointment and the sayd Anneley returneing and bringing word that
neither hee nor the sayd letters were come the sayd Blake not being willing to
neglect his tyme and misse the oportunitie of a fayre winde hee then had departed
without the sayd Pilgrim , and letters And further hee cannot depose./

To the Interrogatories repeated as aforesayd./ [CENTRE HEADING]

To the first hee saith hee cometh to be a wittnes at the request of Blake to
whome hee is neither of Kindred nor allyance And saith hee was Boatswaine
of the Industry the voyage in question and hath receaved all his wages withput
defalcation./

To the 2 hee saith hee knoweth not the Interrogated Alvarado and therefore
cannot answere./

To the 3 hee saith hee knoweth of noe pipe of wine staved the sayd voyage nor
was any allowance demanded of him (or any other of the shipps company for
any such thing that hee knoweth for hee receaved his whole wages for himselfe
and also the whole wages of George Clements a Quartermaster of the
sayd shipp who authorized him soe to doe And further hee cannot answere/

To the 4th hee saith hee cannot more fully answere then his foregoeing
deposition having lost all his papers touching the voyage in question

To the 5th hee saith hee heard noe such order given as is
Interrogated And therefore cannot answere this Interrogatorie./

To the 6th hee cannot answere knowing nothing touching
the contents thereof./

Beniamin Denning [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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