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Contents of this article, saying hee heard … Contents of this article, saying hee heard the said Mr. duck and other<br />
Merchants at Saint Lucar severall times say and declare, that severall of the<br />
said goods brought in the said shipp to Saint Lucar, would there come to a very<br />
badd markett, and that they would have yeilded a farr greater benefitt if<br />
they had come to and been according to order sold and disposed of at Santa Cruz
To the 8th hee saith hee knoweth nothing thereof/:-
To the 9th hee saith hee referreth himselfe to the proceedings of this Court And<br />
further cannot depose:-
To the last hee saith, his foregoeing deposition is true:-/
To the Interrogatories/ [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first Interrogatories hee saith hee cometh to be a witness in this cause<br />
at the request of the producent James Cowse who desyred this rendent to<br />
testifie the truth of his knowledge therein and saith hee hath noe share or interest<br />
in this cause neither will it bee any benefit to him this rendent that hee knoweth of<br />
if the saud Cowse prevaile therein nor preiudice to this rendent if hee bee overthrowne<br />
therein, and saith hee would give the victory in this cause to them to whome of right<br />
it belongeth if it were in his power, and saith hee is noe waies of kinn or alliance<br />
to the producent nor servant to him otherwise then as hee went in the sayd shipp Masters<br />
mate the voyage in question, and hath receaved nothing nor expecteth ought for his<br />
testimony in this cause And further hee cannot answere/
Ro the second hee saith hee well knoweth the shipp Interrogated and went both Pilott and Masters mate of the sayd shipp<br />
the voyage in question and was put in soe to doe by the said Keene the Interrogant<br />
who undertooke to pay him this rendent his wages for the sayd voyage but refused<br />
to pay the same till this deponent by suite of lawe in Spaine receovered the same<br />
of him and then hee the sayd Keene seeing it was adiudged against hin soe to doe, did<br />
order one Watts a Merchant at Saint Lucars to pay this respondent his<br />
wages adiudged which the sayd Watts accordingly did./
To the 3 Interrogatorie hee saith hee referreth him selfe to his foregoeing deposition<br />
to the allegation in this cause given wherein hee hath at full answered the effect of<br />
this Interrogatorie saving hee saith hee beleeveth if the sayd shipp had not put<br />
in at Saint Lucar as shee did shee and her ladeing had perished the sayd shipp being as is<br />
predeposed forsaken of all her company but this respondent and the Interrogant and a<br />
little boy, both which were uselesse to this respondent in conducting the sayd shipp safe<br />
to Saint Lucar, the master being sick and the boy being able to yeild bery little helpe<br />
toward the sayd shipps preservation. And further hee cannot answere
To the 4th hee saith that the sayd shipp Interrogate was very much damnified in<br />
the storme Interrogate and lost her mayne mast and paart of her mizen mast and her Boltspritt<br />
and a great paart of her rigging and her mayne topp sayle and her midshipp [?XXXX] soe that shee could<br />
not have gone from Saint Lucars to the Canaries without being first repayred<br />
but saith as is predeposed that the foresayd Mr Richard<br />
duck did offer to supplye the sayd Keene with moneys necessarie to have repaired<br />
the sayd shipp if hee the sayd Keene would have accepted of it and caused her<br />
to be repayred and proceeded on his voiage to Santa Cruze soe that there was noe<br />
necessitie of the sayd shipps ladeing being put ashoare at Saint Lucar if the sayd<br />
Keene had bin willing to have proceeded on his voyage And hee saith that<br />
the sayd Keene not being willing to proceede on the voyage<br />
tog to proceede on the voyage<br />
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