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Transcription

Carpenters for the stopping of her leakes which being done, this deponent
the next day after videlicet; the thirtith of August commanded his sayd Lieutenant John Gough to goe againe
aboard the shipp Interrogate to those of the Lyons Company which hee this deponent
had left aboard her on the 29th day, and use his best endeavour to preserve
the sayd shipp and her ladeing and this deponent on the 31th of the sayd moneth sent alsoe one Mr Foscu to
assist the sayd Gough, and by the sayd Foscu sent order that they should fetch
or make any port in England that they best could, and this deponent
promised the sayd Foscu to stand in to shoare with him to helpe in case the
shipp Interrogate should have sunck which the deponent accordingly did
and this deponent alsoe ordered the sayd Gough soe soone as they should
have made a port to go to the vice Admirall of the County and receive such further
order touching the sayd shipp and goods as hee should give, by which meanes this deponent
knoweth (hee being a little off at sea in the Lyon to observe what
became of her, and observing that they fired noe pieces of Ordinance from
the shipp Interrogate as this deponent alsoe commanded the in case they were
in any necessitie that they gott safe to Bricksham Key in Tourbay And
further to this article hee cannot of his certaine knowledge depose saving hee saith hee
hath heard the sayd Gough saye that they afterwards gott the shipp
Interrogete and her ladeing into Dartmouth with much difficulty and labour
and further to this article hee cannot depose saving hee saith there was in her at the tyme
Interrogate oyles, some seale skinnes whalebone, a smale quantity of Cider and some deske
chests and a Copper to boyle oyle and that shee had also aboard her then
eight peece of iron Ordinance./

To the 3rd, 4th and 5th interrogatories hee saith hee
knoweth not the name of the Shipp Interrogate,nor
who had bin master of her, all her company being carried away out
of her, and as hee supposed the shipp which hee sawe receave her aboard
before this deponent came at her, tooke away her men of her and
what else they could take away, and hee saith by her ladeing hee beleeveth
she came from Gravesend and hee saith shee is Flemish built, but hee beleeveth
she belonges to Frenchmen
for that she was taken to the West of the Lizard by which (????) the Flemmings
used not to come, but did usually pass by Shottland and soe for Holland
as alsoe for that there was Cider found aboard her which the Flemmish
use not to carrie, And further saving his foregoeing deposition hee
cannot depose saving hee saith there were noe bills of ladeing or any
other writings found aboard her at her siezure aforesaid/
To the 6th hee saith hee beleeveth she had bin in fight with some shipp
or shipps before her siezure by the Company of the Lyon,
for that hee sawe she had receaved some shott under
water and had receaved shott in her hull alsoe abaove water and for that
a great part of her tackleing was cutt and shott apeeces, which hee
beleeveth was done by the fower shipps which this deponent and company
sawe with them before the Lyon came neeere her, and fled from her
upon the Lyons neerer approach, hee whereof after a while tacked againe
toward the Lyon, and the Lyon leaving the vessell interrogate and
standing with them, they being cleane tallowed shipps and sayling (?????)
then the Lyon gott away. And further to this Interrogatorie hee cannot depose/

Repeated before Doctor Godolphin

John Lambert [SIGNATURE RH SIDE]