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to this port of London, and he saith that the said bill of Lading mentioned that the said tenne baggs of Goats wooll conteyned two thousand sixe hundred and eight Rotuloes neat weight and that according to the estimation and accompt of Merchants in deducing or ballancing the Smyrna Accompt with English according to weight an hundred Rotuloes of Smyrna is reputed, accompted and taken for and to bee one hundred twenty and five pounds weight English, The which this deponent hath very well observed and experimentally knowne in many computations concerning many severall parcells of goods come from Smyrna to this port of London, And he further deposeth and saith that according to the said weight there was wanting of this deponents knowledge (who was present at the taking up and weighing od the said wools here at London) about two hundred and eighty pound weight, And that every pound of the said wooll was better worth then 16 [?XX GUTTER] And further he cannot depose./ To the last he saith his former deposition is true./ To the Interrogatoryes in the first place ministred. To the first Interrogatory he answereth that he commeth to be a wittnes in this cause by the order of Alderman Micoe this Rendents Master, and that he favoureth both oartyes alike as unto iustice and for his part he saith he would give the victory accordingly (that is) to that party that it shall appeare right is of his side. To the second Interrogatory he answereth that this Rendent first saw the wools interrate at their Landing at the Customehouse, And further he cannot answeare. To the third Interrogatory he answereth that the baggs wherein the woolls were, were at the time of their being putt ashoare at the Custome house, much torne and loose, of this Rendents knowledge being there present when they were Landed And further he cannot answeare./ To the Interrogatoryes in the 2d place/ To the first Interrogatory he answereth that he referreth himselfe to his former deposition made to the third and fourth articles of the allegation And further he cannot depose./ To the second and third Interrogatoryes he answereth that he was never at Smyrna, but he saith 'tis the use and custome here in England is that if package be broken and the losse therby considerable, then the Master of the shipp or vessell hath bin Lyable to make good the samage or want of weight, And he further answereth that the interrate and circumspect words The inside, quality and condition I knowe not, And further he cannot answeare To the fourth he cannot answeare./ To the fifth Interrogatory he answereth that he this Rendent did see the said Goats wooll weighed presently after the Landing therof at the Custome house, and he saith that none of the said woolls were diminished between their Landing and weighing and that he knoweth not whither they were dimninished after they were unladen out of the ''Cesar'' but if they were it was done when they were under the charge of the said [?ffudge GUTTER] having one man or more in the Lighter that brought them ashoare, And further he cannot answeare./ Repeated before Doctor Godolphin. =Wm: Cockcroft [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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