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To the 15th hee saith, That this deponent … To the 15th hee saith, That this deponent being at Porta Port aforesaid<br />
on the moneths of ffebruary and March aforesaid or thereabouts<br />
(the particular and expressed daies arlate hee now remembreth not) the ham=<br />
burgher or fflemish Vessells predeposed could not in 3. or 4. weekes or<br />
thereabouts (as hee remembreth) passe the said barr notwithstanding shee<br />
drew lesse water then the ''John'', and was designed<br />
to passe the said barr, but could not, as this deponent<br />
saw and observed; whereby this deponent is assured that the said shipp the<br />
''John'' could not in that time passe the said barr without imminent<br />
and apparent hazard of the said shipp and ladeing. And further<br />
hee cannot depose/
To the 16th hee saith That the ''John'' and the hamburgher shipp<br />
arlate passed over the barr foresaid at one and the same time<br />
of this deponents sight and observation, and that the said hamburgher had fallen downe<br />
towards the said barr with intention to passe, some dayes before the<br />
said shipp ''John'' fell downe thither, And otherwise saving his fore<br />
going deposition hee saith hee cannot depose/
To the 17th hee saith, That the said shipp the ''John'' being fully laden<br />
at Porta Port aforesaid was one of the first shipps of that burthen that within<br />
the time predeposed did or could passe the said barr, And further cannot depose saving<br />
that within or about that time a small dutch man of warr, and some other small vessells<br />
did as hee beleeveth passe the said barr of Porta Port./
To the 18th hee referreth himselfe to his foregoeing deposition, And<br />
further hee cannot depose./.
To the rest of the articles hee is not examined by direction of the producents:-
To the Crosse Interrogatories./ [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first hee saith, hee saw the shipp the ''John'' interrate at Porto Port<br />
interrate when shee was fully laden, and readie to passe the barr of<br />
Porta Port. And otherwise (saving his foregoeing deposition) negatively, And<br />
further cannot depose/
To the second hee saith, the shipp in which this examinate served namely the<br />
''Porta Port Merchant'' was a shipp of the burthen of about 200. tunns, and saith shee<br />
was fully laden and readie to depart from Porta Port at such time as the<br />
shipp the ''John'' in Controversie passed the barr there, but stayed about 7. or 8<br />
daies after the ''Johns'' departure, and that because the Merchants who were to<br />
come from England in her were not then readie to depart, And otherwise<br />
saving his foregoeing deposition hee saith hee cannot depose./:-
To the third hee saith hee doeth not knowe neither did hee see or heare that<br />
any shipp of equall burthen or tonnage with the ''John'' interrate did come into the<br />
harbour of Porta Port interrate during the time the shipp ''John''<br />
interrate lay there in a readinesse to passe over the barr of Porto Port<br />
(Ander the barr of Porto Port<br />
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