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Eodem die [CENTRE HEADING]
Sup Allone pre … Eodem die [CENTRE HEADING]
Sup Allone pred Examinatus./.
'''Rp. (3us.'''
'''Eustathius Cooper''' de Insula Vertis in Comitatu<br />
Siuthampton Nauta, annos agens 25 aut eo circiter testis<br />
in hac [?cua] productus, et Juratus dicit et deponit [?prout]<br />
sequitur./.
Ad primum arlum nescit deponere./
Ad 2um et 3um arlum dicit that the arlate Captaine John Poines<br />
and Company with the ffrigot the ''Wakefeild'' did off of deepe at or about the month of Aprill or<br />
May 1659 rescue and retake, a ship laden with Rye from<br />
an Ostend man of warr, which was<br />
Carrying of her for Ostend as a Prize which hee knwoeth<br />
being then one of the said Captaine Poines his Company and<br />
assisting in the said rescue.
Ad 3um et 4um dicit, that after the said Rescue the said Captaine<br />
Poines this deponent and Company carried the said rescued<br />
vessell to Deepe Roade, where hee saith the said Poines<br />
tooke out a quantity of Rye (as hee confessed to this deponent<br />
and severall of his Company,) and disposed thereof,<br />
And saith that this deponent being then in the said ''Wakefeild<br />
ffrigott'', sawe a sloope copme from deepe to the side of<br />
the said rescued ship, empty, and after it<br />
had bin there about two houres hee sawe the same<br />
goe Loaden from the said rescued ship, to Deepe and<br />
hee verily beleeveth the said sloope was loaden with<br />
Rye, and from thence the said Captaine Poines and<br />
Companie carried the said rescued ship to the Downes<br />
where some of the said ffrigotts Company muttering, and<br />
seemming somewhat discontented that the said Captaine<br />
Poines should take out soe much rye and that they<br />
should have nothing, the said Poines told them in this<br />
deponents hearing, that hee had taken something for himselfe<br />
and that if they had any baggs they might<br />
goe onboard (meaning board the said rescued ship) and every one take<br />
a bushell of the said Rye, for a spending penny or<br />
to that Effect, And saith that presently after hee had<br />
soe said this deponent and some others went onshore to<br />
deale, to fill water, where this deponent stayed that day,<br />
and afterwards coming on board the said ffrigott hee sawe<br />
some Rye on board the said ffrigott in baggs which was<br />
not in her when hee soe went ashore, but saith that hee<br />
knoweth not how much they in all tooke out of the said rescued vessell<br />
nor the vallue thereof, And saith that hee hath heard severall<br />
of the said ffrigotts Company say that the said Captaine<br />
Poines that the said Captaine<br />
Poines +
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