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Transcription

To the fifth hee cannot depose saving as aforesaid./:

To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true./:

To the Interrogatories in the first places./: [CENTRE HEADING]

To the first hee saith hee was sommoned to come and
Testify the truth in this busines, by the Comissioner
of the Admiralty, and saith hee doth not expect to
have any part or share of the Santa Maria or her Lading
or any satisfaccion for the same, in case the same be
Condemned, and to the rest negatively:/.

To the second hee saith that hee this Deponent was borne at
Newcastle Upon Tyne and saith that hee can understand
Dutch, and speaks it a little and saith for theise tenne
yeeres last hee hath lived in Wapping and the parish
of Stepney, saving such time as hee hath bin out at sea in the
Service of the Comonwealth, And saith that hee
Learned his Dutch by using the Dutch trade from
Newcastle aforesaid and such Conversing with Dutch
men at sea, and elsewhere, and further cannot depose./.

To the third hee saith hee is and has bin about twelve
monethes last past Comander of the ffairfax ffrigot in
the immediate service of thids Commonwealth in the Squadron under
the Command of Admirall Stokes, and otherwise answereth negatively.

To the fourth hee never knew nor saw the said shipp the Saint Mary before
the said [?time] of his seizure of her in the Bay of Gibraltar, and
otherwise referreth himselfe to his foregoeing deposition.

To the fifth hee saith hee to his knowledge never saw the said Mexia de
herera, hee being gonne ashore [atxx] Cadiz when the said shipp was
seized as aforesaid, and otherwise hee referreth himselfe to his deposition
aforegoing touching him.

To the 6th hee saith hee hath heard that the said shipp was set out
and carried a cargo of goods from Amsterdam, and saith it is probable
that the goods which were seized in her, were the proceed of the said
outwards cargo, but knows not to whom either the outward cargo or
goods seized doe belong otherwise than as aforesaid , and refers himselfe
to his foregoing deposition.

To the 7th hee referreth himselfe to his foregoing deposition, where hee hath
satisfied the same as farr as hee knoweth.

To the eighth hee saith that the quantities of the goods seized
hee doth not remember, but referrs himselfe therin to an account thereof
taken at Tolon by mr Aldworth agent there for the State, who received them
into his possession, which this deponent [xxxxxxxxx] will be [xxxxxxxxx] brought
into this Court and otherwise knoweth not.

To the 9th hee saith this deponent for his part hath not taken into custody
any of the said shipps goods unlesse some few Monaco's of
tobacco, which were so rotten that they at Tholon would not receive
them