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Transcription

Some men of warr, and particularly one Captain Locker and beleeveth the said
Captain Stanton might in that time very well have sett to sea (in case there had
not been some contest and difference between him and his shipps Companie)
And further he cannot deposeth :/

To the 14th: hee refereth himself to his precedent deposition:/

To the 15th hee sayeth That hee this deponent being a Wine-Cooper by profession
and particularly employed by the said Robert Rich to goe to the Isle of
Wight for and about the mannagement and preservation of the wines seized?
and brought up thither there in the shipps predeposed, well knoweth and ?tobe very
exact notice, that there were in the said shipps about 600. tunnes of french
wine, which the said Mr. Robert Rich did desire might be sould there at the
Cowes, at some part of them were, and the rest to bee brought about to this
Port of London, but the said Captains Stanton and Companie being refractory
and unwilling, the said wines continued there undisposed of for sewall moneths
and came not to this Port of London till about the moneth of July 1652
in which time they were very much perished and leaked of this deponents
sight and observation, who was (as being employed as aforesaid) necessitated
to racke them aboard the shipp wherein they came being the Hoveling
And sayeth hee beleeveth and is in conscience convinced according to his
predesposed declaration and imployment: both in generall as a Wine Cooper
and in particular as to the Cause in Controversie, that the said Robert
Rich and Consorts have really suffered and sustayned the dammage of
1500 li sterling or thereabouts which they might have fairely and justly
gained in rate the said wines had come to a convenient markett, as by the
said Roberth Rich was desired The premisses hee declareth upon the grounds?
predesposed, and further cannot depose:/

To the 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20th he deposeth not by direction of the producents

To the 21st: hee sayeth That hee this deponent well knoweth and saw and observed
That the said Robert Rich did for all the time that this deponent was by him
employed as aforesaid, carefully provide necessary victualls for the said
Shipps Companie, but how much the same accounted unto this deponent: saith
hee cannot declare not being privy to the particulars of the said expense:

To the 22nd hee sayeth, That hee beleeveth, That if the said Captain Stanton
had within the time predeposed sett out to sea with the said shipp Elizabeth
hee might in all probability have mett with and taken some considerable
Prizes. And further cannot depose.:/

To the rest hee is not examined by the direction of the producent

To the Crosse Interrogatories [CENTRE HEADING]

To the first hee answereth and saith, That hee knoweth nothing of
or concerning the victualling interrate:

To the second hee saith, That the order given by the said Robert Rich
by word of mouth as predeposed, was soe given to the said Captaine Stanton at
Mr. Nailors house at the signe of the feathers in west Cowes in the Isle of Wight
Where the said Robert Rich, Captain Stanton and the deposed lay and
conversed together, And otherwise saving this foregoing
deponent hee saith hee hee cannot depose:/