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Transcription

hee deposeth of his owne sight and knowledge And hee saith hee knoweth that
there were severall pypes of oyle laden aboard the shipp arlate the voyage
arlate for that hee helped to receave divers pipes thereof from aboard her
And saith that hee this deponent seeing severall of the sayd ffifteene chests of [?sugar]
removed from the place where they were stowed knoweth that there appe[?areth]
to bee much water and oyle under them which lay in the same place from [?whence]
they were removed after they were soe removed and when the shipp aforesayd
lay in the River of Thames And hee saith the sayd ffifteene chests of [?sugar]
were all stowed upon the ground tyre abaft the mast and that those sugars that
lay neerest the pumpe were most damnified And further to those articles hee
cannot depose/

To the 6th hee saith that hee being present at the opening of
the fifteene Chests of sugar controverted knoweth that the sugar[?s]
which remayned undamnified in any of them were those that lay in the
uppermost part of the chests and the Covers and upper parts of the chests
remayned drye and well conditioned And further hee cannot depose/

To the 7th hee saith that hee being Cooper as aforesayd and imployed as afore=
sayd knoweth that the sugars aforesayd were in that wett and damnified
condition aforesayd when hee soe viewed the stowage of them And
further hee cannot depose

To the 8th hee saith that hee being present at the opening of the sayd sugars therefore
knoweth that if they had not bin soe damnified as it appeareth they were they
would have produced upon sale more then they did and as hee beleeveth
at least fifty pounds more then they could yeild in such a damnified condition
as they were And further hee cannot depose/

To the 9th hee saith that hee this deponent did in the behalfe of the producent
Mr Bence require the arlate Joseph Careswell to come to view the d[?ennage]
of the sugars in question and told him they were at Chesters Key and knoweth [?XXX]
that the sayd Bence was at a weekes charges extraordinary after the delivery
of the sayd sugars out of the sayd shipp to keepe them to be viewed by the sayd
Careswell And further hee cannot depose./

To the 10th for that hee is not a seaman hee cannot depose thereto/

To the last hee saith his foregeoing deposition is true/

To the Interrogatories/

To the first Interrogatorie hee cometh to be examined by the request of
the producent Mr Bence to whome and the Interrogated Bushell hee is not related otherwise than
that hee is the sayd Bushells Cooper And saith hee first sawe the chests of sugars
in question aboard the Oporto Merchant in the River of Thames after her returne
from the voyage in question but the certayne day hee remembreth not And further saving
his foregoeing deposition hee cannot depose/

To the 2 Interrogatorie hee saith hee saw the sugars in question weighed but remembreth not the [?weight]
of them And saith he was not any of the shipps company And cannot further answere
to this Interrogatorie./

To the 3 Interrogatorie hee saith that hee was on board the Oporto Merchant while shee
lay in the River of Thames with the sugars in question aboard her and knoweth
they lett wett and that if they had bin better dennaged then they were they had not bin
soe damnified as they were and saith they were all stowed upon the ground tyre And
further being noe seaman hee cannot answere/

To the 4th Interrogatorie hee saith for that hee tasted the sugars in question damnified he [?can]
safely sweare that they were damnified both by oyle and water And further to this Interrogatorie
hee cannot answere/

To the last saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot answere/

Alex ffowler [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]