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transported thence to Southhampton in her but what hee the sayd
Edwards was to pay for the freight of the sayd wyne hee knoweth
not And further hee cannot depose

To the 9th article hee saith hee cannot depose/

To the 10th saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot further depose

To the 11th hee saith for that hee was steward and on board the
whole voyage in question hee well knoweth that after the disparagement
cast upon the shipp Negro by the sayd Edwards at Saint Christopher in
manner predeposed the sayd shipp did sayle from Saint
Christophers to Jamaica and thence to New England and thence
to the Maderas and thence to Southhampton and thence to London anD brought home
divers goods part whereof shee unladed at Southampton and the
rest at London and came home to London a tight and stanch shipp, and
delivered her goods at Southampton and London well conditioned
And further saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot depose

To the Interrogatories/ [CENTRE HEADING]

To the first (the danger of periurie being declared unto him hee saith hee hath
bin a Seaman these five or sixe yeares in the nature of a Steward of shipps
and saith hee understandeth what a Carpenter and Gunner
are by their places obliged to doe in a shipp though hee bee not experienced
in either of their arts of sciences as to be able for the performeing of the practick part of them./

To the 2 Interrogatorie hee saith that there was at Kingslale in Ireland a pye
of about two shillings sixe pence price (which was sent as hee hath heard
on board by a bakers wife who baked bread for the shipp Negro to the
officers in generall of the sayd shipp) brought on board the sayd shipp, which
pye hee saith was found by John Gouldsborough the Cooke of the sayd shipp after it came aboard
and by him the sayd Cooke (as hee confessed to this deponent and others of the
sayd shipps company) put into this deponents stewards toome in the sayd shipp
which by vertue of his oath hee saith was done without his this deponents knowledge thereof And
that the same being enquired after by Samuell Bushell one of the
Company of the sayd shipp and brother to Captain Lockier the Commander
of the sayd shipp who pretended right therein hee this deponent
not knowing of the being thereof in his roome, did (as hee might safely in such case doe denye the same and
beleeveth that the same was afterwards found there and eaten by the
sayd Bushell and this deponent and some others of the Company of the sayd shipp
And to the rest of the Interrogatories hee answereth negatively

To the 3 hee answerith negatively

To the 4th Interrogatorie hee answereth that the Interrogate John Everett and
another person (whose name as hee remembereth was Benjamine Beare)
belonging alsoe to the shipp Negro did sell a small Anchor of about twenty
shillings price in New England (which (as they the sayd Everet and Beane
pretended they found in Jamaica though the generall reporte was
that they had stolne it) And to the rest of the Interrogatorie
answereth negatively saving hee knoweth not whether they were
acquitted for the same or noe

To the 5th Interrogatorie hee saith it concerneth him not to answere thereto for
that the asking of him upon the sayd Interrogatorie is by the Interrogatorie excepted against

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