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Transcription

merchandizes mentioned in the sayd two schedules, and the parties in this
suite and the shipp or vessell and goods therein mentioned to be seized by
the shipps of this Commonwealth are one and the same persons shipp and goods and
not divers, and also verily beleeveth the contents of the sayd two schedules
to be true And further hee cannot depose/

To the 5th and 6th articles of the sayd allegation hee saith hee cannot of
his certayne knowledge depose not being aboard the vessell the
hare of Middleborough at her seizure but saith hee knoweth that the
same was brought into dover with some wines aboard her as seized
by a ffrigott of this Commonwealth And further hee cannot depose/

To the 7th and the third schedule therein mentioned hee saith for the reasons aforesayd, hee beleeveth the sayd hubert
Gosling the tyme arlate could write written hand and hee this deponent
and his precontest ffrancis Beyer and also William Tatnill Tho: Browne
and John Price were present and sawe the sayd hubert Gosling write his
name in manner as now it appeareth on the topp of the sayd third schedule
And further saving his foregeoing deposition hee cannot depose/

To the 8th hee saith saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot depose/

To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true/

To the Interrogatories/ [CENTRE HEADING]

To the 1 hee saith it concerneth him not being none of the Company of
the vessell Interrogated./

To the 2 hee saith hee knoweth only the Interrogate Vander hemel and that
only by Correspondence And further to this Interrogatorie he cannot answere/

To the 3 hee cannot answere knowing nothing touching the contents thereof
other than what hee hath predeposed./

To the 4th and 5th hee cannot answere./

To the 6th hee saith hee never sawe Vander hemel, nor Courteines only hee
was a Correspondent to Vanderhemel as aforesayd And further cannot
answere./

To the 7th hee cannot answere knowing nothing touching the contents thereof/

To the 8th hee answereth negatively to every part thereof/

To the 9th hee saith hee was not present at the tyme Interrogated And therefore
cannot answere to this Interrogatorie otherwise than in his foregoeing deposition/

To the 10th and 11th hee saith hee neither knoweth beleeveth or is [?convinced]d in
conscience that the vessell or wines clayemed or any part of them doe belong
to any fflandrian or Spaniard or other subiect of the King of Spaine nor
knoweth of any Ensurance made of the sayd vessell and wynes./

Repeated before doctor Godolphin

Tho. [?De] La[?v]all [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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The 5th day of March 1657 English style

Blake against Page}
Suckley Smith}

Examined on an allegation on the behalfe of the sayd Page

[XXXX ?dt.]

3us

John Smith of London Merchant aged twenty foure yeares
or thereabouts a wittnesse sworne and examined saith
and deposeth as followeth videlicet

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