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To the 10th hee cannot depose/
To the 11t … To the 10th hee cannot depose/
To the 11th hee saith hee referreth him selfe to the Registry of this<br />
Court and further cannot depose
To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true./
To the Interrogatories./ [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith hee cometh to testifie in this cause at the<br />
request of the producent to whome hee is neither of Kindred nor allyance<br />
and saith hee hath noe share or interest in this cause nor will it bee either<br />
profitt or preiudice to him whichsoever of the parties litigant prevaile in this suite/
To the 2 Interrogatorie hee answereth negatively not being present the tyme Interrate./
To the 3 Interrogatorie hee saith hee was never at Porto Port but once, which was<br />
the voyage in question, but saith that at his being there hee did observe<br />
that it was a barred port and very dangerous in his Judgment to passe over the<br />
barr without a Pylott, and saith that hee did observe that after by the helpe<br />
of the Pylott brought from Lisbone the sayd shipp was brought soe neere<br />
Oport that she was under the Command of the Castle there, a pylott came off shoare,<br />
of his owne accord, without any shott made to him to that purpose, but (as<br />
the Pylott this deponent heard some of the seamen who understoodd the Portugall<br />
language saye) that the Pylott did saye that unlesse shipps came under<br />
Command of the Castle or that they very well know them a Pylott<br />
durst not bee soe bold as to adventure out to sea to them although shott<br />
were made for a Pylott to come, for that many tymes they are deceived<br />
by the Turkish vessells who put out false colours and if a pylott or any else<br />
come neere them they take them for slaves And<br />
saith that when the sayd Jeggles first arrived with his sayd shipp on the<br />
Portugall coast not knowing the name of the place neere which hee was the<br />
and seeing some fisherboates at sea hee made shott which is the oficiall signall for a pylott for them to come to<br />
him, but hee being farr distant at Sea (this deponent they rann right into<br />
harbour and came not to him./
To the 4th Interrogatorie hee saith hee is noe seaman nor hath any skill in<br />
navigation and never knew the sayd Jeggles before the voyage in question<br />
And further hee cannot answere./
To the 5th Interrogatorie hee saith that for the two first dayes after the arrivall<br />
of the sayd Jeggles upon the Coast of Portugall neere Oport the wether<br />
was fayre, and afterwards stormie and that the sayd Jeggles did beate<br />
upp and downe severall dayes but as hee at length confessed was ignorant<br />
of the place, and thereupon as is predeposed the sayd Cowse seeing the sayd<br />
Jeggles his unskillfullnes in knowledge of the place hee intended for, and<br />
the storminesse of the weather, did upon the sayd Jeggles his motion consescend<br />
to goe to Lisbone for a pylott And further saving his fooregoeing<br />
deposition hee cannot answere./
To the 6th Interrogatorie hee saith hee verily beleeveth and is perswaded in<br />
his conscience that by reason of the fayrenesse of the weather for the<br />
twosse of the weather for the<br />
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