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1. <margin value="Top left">Smyth XX/</margin>
2. The 29th day of March. The foresayd Stephen Sillon examined
3. upon the Crosse Interrogatories administred on the behalfe of Mr
4. Smith's Clyents saith as followeth. videlicet.
5. To the first Interrogatorie he saith that George Boys aforesayd did speake to him
6. to be a witnesse in this cause, but he cometh to testify the truth by the
7. order of this Court as he conceyveth And that he was masters mate
8. of the sayd shipp, and hath not receyved all his wages for the voyage
9. in question, saying that the sayd Boys hath attached forty pounds of
10. his wages in the Poultry Counter, pretending that he hath so done under
11. coloXr of dammage sustayned by goods, brought home in the sayd shipp
12. Susan and Anne. And otherwise he cannot depose.
13. To the second Interrogatory he saith he is sure that a good quantity of the sugars
14. were damnifyed and washt away in and by the sayd Hurricano. howbeit
15. he saith he doth beleive some of the sugars were dry and well conditioned
16. after the sayd Hurricano, but how much was wett and hurt, or how much did
17. continue dry ˹a˺fter the sayd tempest was over he cannX cannot particularly
18. declare. And he further saith that the sayd shipp was leaky after the sayd
19. Hurricano and before she struck upon the rockes as aforesayd, but not so=
20. much as she was after her such striking. And such striking he saith did
21. happen by the Scantines of the wind as aforesayd, and not by the unskill
22. fullnes of the Pilot, beleiving that as the wind then happened
23. to be the same would not have bene prevented by the ablest pilot. And
24. otherwise he cannot depose.
25. To the third Interrogatory he saith he doth not know that whether the sayd sugars
26. and goods were well conditioned or noe att the tyme of their lading
27. being they were brought aboard in caskes which he saw not opened
28. And saith that some of the sugars (but how much he cannot say) was hurt
29. and damnifyed att the tyme of their arrivall here, but to whom the sugars
30. so damnifyed did or doe belong he saith he knoweth not. And
31. further or otherwise cannot answer.
32. Stephen Sillon SIGNATURE, RH SIDE
33.
34. <header>
35. <series>HCA 13/71</series>
36. <folio>f.123v</folio>
37. <picture>P1130417</picture>
38. <summary>DEPOSITION: Robert Lunn examined upon the said Interries</summary>
39. <document-date>24/03/1655</document-date>
40. <status></status>
41. <first-transcriber>Colin Greenstreet, 05/09/12</first-transcriber>
42. </header>
43.
44. <document-start>
45. The same day, the foresayd Robert Lunn examined upon the
46. sayd Interrogatories saith
47. To the .1. Interrogatory he saith he comes to be a witnesse att the Instance of the
48. sayd George Boys. and saith he hath receaved one halfe of his wages for the
49. voyage in question, and that one and twenty pounds is still due to him
50. which the sayd Boys doth deteyne under pretence of dammage susteyned
51. by certaine sugars brought hereto in the sayd shipp. And otherwyse
52. he cannot depose.
53. To the second he saith that some of the sugars were wett and damnifyed in the sayd XXXX
54. and some as he beleiveth remained dry. And saith that the sayd shipp by
55. the said hurricano did become leaky: and by striking on the rockes because XXX
56. more leaky. and that she struck upon the rockes not by the unskillfullnes
57. of the Pilot but by a sudden Gust of wind that unexpectedly came against
58. the shipp whereby her former wind that was fair to have carryed her from
59. the Islands became scanting upon her. And he beleiveth that the sayd strike
60. could not have beene prevented as the wind then happened. And otherwise
61. he cannot answer./
62. To the third hee saith he knoweth not whether the goods interrate were well conditioned
63. the tyme of their lading nor not. nor can tell what quantity of them was
64. spoyled att their arrivall here, he being not present att their delivery And
65. otherwise cannot answer.
66. <margin value="Bottom RH corner of page">Robert R MARK OF ROBERT LUNN(E) Lunne
67. his marke</margin>

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