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same letter order this deponent to deliver … same letter order this deponent to deliver to the foresaid Mathew<br />
Smith which hee accordingly did And saith that the letter nowe shewed him and mentioned in the sayd 5th article is the very same letter hee soe delivered to the sayd Smith And for that hee this deponent knoweth that the sayd Smith stayed with<br />
his sayd shipp the ''Prosperous'' at Teneriff as longe as hee this deponent and<br />
Captaine Russell Commander of the ''Katherine ffrigott'' and other shipps which<br />
arrived at Teneriff at the same tyme with the ''Prosperous'' and receaved their<br />
ladeing did staye, which was the space of forty five dayes and better, and<br />
in all that tyme had noe ladeing brought to bee laden on board him from his<br />
sayd freighters Page Ingram Body and Kendall or their factors and by reason of the sayd letter hee is well<br />
assured that it was not through any default of the sayd Mathew Smith that<br />
the sayd shipp ''Prosperous'' was not then laden And further to this article hee cannot<br />
depose./
To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true./
To the Interrogatories./ [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith hee cometh to testifie in this cause being<br />
required soe to doe by the producent Mathew Smith and saith hee was at the Canaries<br />
the voyage in question in the Shipp the ''Richard'' and saith there came hense from there<br />
full laden all save twelve pipes of Canary which one of his freighters who<br />
came home with him in the sayd would not suffer him to staye to take<br />
in, and receaved noe letter from his freighters to the effort Interrogate<br />
And saith hee hath receaved part of his freight and the the rest is not yet due and<br />
therefore not receaved, And further hee cannot answere./
To the second hee saith hee arrived at an Anchor in the Roade of Aratava at the<br />
Island of Teneriff in the 13th day of October 1655 old style and the Interrogate<br />
Smith arrived there the same tyme And further to this Interrogatorie hee cannot<br />
answere./
To the 3: 4th and 5th Interrogatories hee saith hee did not see the Interrogate<br />
Ingram and Stephens or either of them signe the generall letter predeposed of<br />
in his deposition to the second and third articles of the allegation, and remembreth not<br />
certainely who first receaved the same letter, it being a generall letter which<br />
concerned all the Masters of English shipps then lying in the Roade of Oratava<br />
at Teneriff aforesayd, but well knoweth that in the same was then Communicated to<br />
this deponent and the sayd Smith and others all togeather and hee this deponent read<br />
the originall over, and afterwards severall coppies were made thereof, whereof<br />
the coppy annexed to the allegation aforesayd and shewed to him at this his Examination<br />
was one, and hee this deponent helped to compare the same with the sayd originall, but<br />
remembreth not whether in the compareing he read the originall or the coppy nor<br />
who else did, but well knoweth as aforesayd that by coppy by him predeposed of is<br />
a true coppy and is subscribed by him this deponent And further to these<br />
Interrogatories hee cannot answere saving hee saith hee hath heard that the sayd<br />
Smith had order from Mr Stevens and Mr Arthur Ingram two of his freighters<br />
ffactors resideing at Teneriff to retourne home againe from thense but when hee<br />
receaved such order hee this deponent knoweth notd such order hee this deponent knoweth not +
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