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To the first, second, third fourth and fifth articles hee saith and deposeth that hee
well knew the arlate Edward Waterman and Thomas Tailer whilest they lived
and well knew the shipp the John arlate, and that the time articulate hee
this deponent was master of her, and had the charge and command as master
committed unto him by her owners, of which owners hee saith that John Southwood
arlate was one, and that within the said time the said shipp wanted and stood
in need of ordnance for her necessarie defence and safetie, and that the said
John Southwood one of her owners, telling this deponent her master that hee
the said Southwood had contracted for tenn peeces of iron ordnance for the said
shipp, ordered him to fetch them from the key of the said Thomas Tailer
where hee said they were ready, and thereupon this deponent went to the said
key of the said Thomas Tailer in Wapping, and received the said tenn peeces of iron ordnance of the said mr
Tailer and by his order in or about the month of ffebruary 1653 English stile
and tooke an account of the weight thereof, comming as hee saith to eight thousand
eightie eight hundred weight or thereabouts, and carried and caused them
to be carrried aboard the said shipp then lying neere the said key within the Jurisdiction of this Court and that
in the said shipp they were disposed and placed to and for her necessarie
use and defence, and were bought and rovided to that purpose. And saith
that as this deponent then understood, the said tenn guns were bought of the said
Tailer, and that hee was to tha time owner of them, and as being such
owner hee delivered them to this deponent for the use aforesaid, but since
hee this deponent hath bin informed that the said mr waterman was owner
of five of them. And further that there were then alsoe severall [?XXXX] carriages
received from the said Tailer from his said key to that use and carried aboard the said
shipp by order of the said Southwood, but how many carriages hee knoweth not,
now after soe long time passed, And saith that both the said Southwood and this
deponent have severall times since acknowledged the receipt of the said guns
and carriages from the said Tailer who was commonly said to be owner
thereof, and saith this deponent was the foresaid time commonly accounted
master and the said Southwood part owner of the said shipp. And further
hee cannot depose.

To the sixth hee saith that the said tenn iron guns or peeces of ordnance
and the said carriages were used and imployed in and aboard the said shipp for her
defence and that shee had noe other ordnance in her for all the time after
that this deponent continued master of her, And further hee cannot depose.

To the seaventh hee saith that the said ordnance at the time of the said delivery
were worth sixteene shillings per hundred for every hundred weight thereof
and the said carriages worth fourtie shillings a peece one with another, and
after that rate hee saith they might have bin sold to others, And further hee
cannot depose.

To the eighth hee referreth himselfe to his foregoeing deposition and further deposeth
not, saving the said Southwood hath since acknowledged the receipt of the said guns and
carriages to the use of the said shipp, and that hee was indebted to the said Tailer therefore

To the nineth hee saith that the said Southwood or the said shipp ought to make satisfaction
for the said ordnance and carriages and not this deponent, hee the said
Southwood being as aforesaid a part owner of her, and the said goods being delivered
by his order to the said shipps use, neither hath payment bin required of this
deponent, hee not being liable thereto. And further hee cannot depose.

To the tenth hee saith the said Thomas Tailer is since deceased, And further
hee cannot depose.

To the eleaventh

To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true.

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