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after the sayd dammage soe happened did no … after the sayd dammage soe happened did not helpe or assiste the sayd<br />
shipps Company or any of the passengers in saving any of their goods<br />
nor was anywaies sorrowfull or troubled at the sayd disaaster soe farr<br />
as he this deponent could or did see or observe by him And further saving<br />
his foregoeing deposition he cannot depose./
To the 8th he cannot depose./
To the 9th he saith he referreth him selfe to the Registry of this Court<br />
and further cannot depose./
To the 10th he saith the articulate Waring was and is an English man and a subject<br />
of this Commonwealth and as hee knoweth subject to the authority of<br />
this Court And further he cannot depose./
To the last he saith his foregoeing deposition is true./
To the Interrogatories./ [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first he saith he hath knowed the Interrogate James Warren<br />
for these twelve or fourteen yeares last past and hath knowed him<br />
imployed to take care and charge of piloting shipps betwixt London and<br />
the downes and beleeveth he is an able pylott, if hee list to take care,<br />
but saith he knoweth that in the voyage aforesayd he was very<br />
negligent and carelesse and exceeding obstinate when he was advised by<br />
as aforesayd for his good, And further saving his foregoeing deposition<br />
he cannot answere
To the 2 hee saith he knoweth the sayd Warren did as he believeth pilott<br />
the shipp Interrogate safe to Gravesend, for that he sawe her safe there<br />
and the sayd Warren in her as Pylott, and saith after he had this rendent did<br />
bin a while on shipp board at Gravesend he went on shoare againe and came not on board<br />
to continue till she came to the hope whether the sayd Warren brought her safe<br />
And further to this Interrogatie he cannot answer./
To the third Interrogatorie he saith he knoweth not certainely what number<br />
of men the sayd Wilkinson had of this shipps company on board at the sayd shipps departure from<br />
the hope, but saith he knoweth that eighteen men is a sufficient number<br />
to sayle a shipp of the burthen of the shipp the ''Exchange'' any voyage whatsoever,<br />
and beleeveth there was men sufficient on board to have sayled the sayd shipp into<br />
the downes if the sayd Waring had bin careful in performing his duties<br />
thereabout And further he cannot answere knowing nothing of the rest of the<br />
matter interrogate./
To the 4th he saith he knoweth that other shipps (some of which were<br />
of bigger burthen by a hundred tonne then the ''Exchange'' was) did at the same<br />
tyme that the ''Exchange'' went downe to the redd sands Interrogate goe<br />
thither also and there stayed also that night as the ''Exchange'' did and next<br />
morneing by the care of their Pylotts in carrying<br />
less sayle than the ''Exchange'' did and better observeing the shapeing of their<br />
course then the sayd Warren did, did passe safely over the flatts or sands, as<br />
the sayd Warren might also have done if he had not botnr over much<br />
sayle and shaped his course right, as the other shipps did And further to this<br />
Interrogatoriefurther to this<br />
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