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To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition. [PRESUMABLY "is true" HAS BEEN OMITTED IN ERROR]

To the Interrogatories [CENTRE HEADING]

To the 1 Interrogatorie hee saith hee came to testifie the truth of his knowledge
in this cause at request of Mr Bence the producent, to whome hee
is Cooper and hath noe other relation to him, and saith hee hath noe relation
to the Interrogated Mr Edward Bushell, and saith hee first sawe the chests of sugar
in the hold of the Oporto Merchant as shee lay in the River of Thames
in the moneth of december last, betwixt the eighteenth and three and twentith days
thereof, th etzme more certaynly hee doth not now remember, And saith the
said Chests of sugar were drye on the topp and wett at the bottome And further
saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot answere saving hee saith hee knoweth
that the dammage which happened to the sayd sugars happened before it
was unladen out of the sayd shipp, And beleeveth that it happened not
before the ladeing of the same aboard the shipp for that if the same had
bin damnified by wett before the ladeing it would have ranne out like
Molasses, or syropp, and the dammage would easily have appeared at
the ladeing and might easily have bin taken notice of by those who receaved
them aboard./

To the 2 Interrogatorie hee saith hee was not in the voyage in question, and soe not present
at the stowing nor sawe the spilling or running out of any oyle, nor sawe
the sugar weighed, and saith it is usuall for sugars to bee weighed by the
officers of the Custome house when they are landed and therefore beleeveth there
could noe losse or dammage happen to the sayd sugars after their unladeing
for that hee knoweth they were brought ashoare the same day they were
unladen and that one John the servant of Mr ffowler a Cooper (imployed to that
purpose) came with them in the lighter And further saving his foregoeing
deposition hee cannot answere/

To the 3th hee saith hee did see how the sugars in question laye, and knoweth
that they were stowed upon the ground tyre, and stood wett as aforesayd,
And to the rest of the Interrogatorie hee being noe Seaman nor skilled in Sea
affayres cannot answere thereto./

To the 4th Interrogatorie hee saith hee knoweth not that any one named Watson
came to view the shugars in question, not knowing the mans name whome the
sayd Careswell brought to Chesters Key as aforesayd, And saith that
hee this deponent knoweth that there was above twenty hundred weight of sugar
damnified, And further saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot answere/

To the last hee saith saving his foregeoing deposition to which hee
referreth hee cannot more particularly answere to this Interrogatorie./

Repeated before doctor Godolphin

Lewis Prydyth [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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The 18th of Mary 1658/

Cowse and Cowse against Read and Jones)
Suckley Smith)

Examined on an allegation on the behalfe of the sayd Read and Jones./

Rp. jus.

John Watson of Saint Catherine neere the Tower
of London Ciittizen and Merchantaylor of London
aged thirty fower yeares or thereabouts a wittnesse
sworne and examined saith as followeth videlicet

To