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<document-start>
1. To the sixteenth he deposeth that for such a voyage
2. the voyage in question the arlate John Upson was very
3. uncapable and insufficient, having never gone before a
4. Mate to the Southward And further he cannot depose
5. To the last he saith his former deposition is true/
6.
7. To the Interrogatories./ CENTRE HEADING
8. To the first Interrogatory he answereth that he comes voluntarily
9. to speak the truth, and saith that he must beare his
10. share of the charges of this suite, And to the rest negatively
11. To the 2d he answereth that by his being Mate during all the
12. voyage he well knoweth all the Mariners; to whom he
13. ˹saith˺ their wages are truly due for the sayd voyage, and therefore
14. he desires they showld prevayle in this suite.
15. To the third he answereth that upon the repayring of the
16. said shipp at Bristoll this Rendent Cabbin being with
17. others pulld downe, he lay ashore about 2 months space
18. but he sayth that all that time he belonged to the sayd
19. shipp And otherwise he knoweth not to answere./
20. To the fourth he answereth that this Rendent for his part and
21. the arlate Jenings came from Bristoll hither, and that
22. John Upson sen, as alsoe one PaXsley and harbottle and
23. one Nalke (and others, whom he cannot now
24. remember) did not come in her to this port of London
25. And further he cannot answere./
26. To the fifth he answereth that he is a Seaman by pr[ofession GUTTER]
27. having served an Apprentice=shipp unto it, and he
28. saith that a new shipp (if over=burdened with goods
29. ˹may˺ and will give way in her sides in a great and violent
30. storme, and if not well bound will in such a storme
31. prove leaky, And further he cannot answer./
32. To the sixth he answereth that he can write and read
33. written hand./
34. To the seaventh he referreth himselfe to his former
35. deposition And further he cannot answere./
36. To the eighth Interrogatory he answereth that the weather was
37. thick and misty when she arrivd at Aberdey, and that
38. the mistines of weather and mistake of land were
39. together the occasions of the sayd shipps missing this channell
40. and that had she not mist the channell, she had certainly
41. have made some good port in the West=Country, which was
42. the full intent of the sayd Croford and Company And
43. further he cannot answer./
44. To the ninth Interrogatory he answereth that the say after the
45. sayd shipp was arrived at Aberdee the sayd Croford gave
46. order to the shipps Company to weigh anchors, and he saith
47. that the Company had a mind to have gone for Milford
48. In regard that there they might have ˹bin˺ supplyed with
49. such occasions as they then wanted And further he
50. soth not answer, referring himselfe to his former deposition
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