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All which hee knoweth because hee was one of the company of the said shipp the ''John'' of Barkeshire the said voyage and came with the said oiles, ans saw such landing of them by Mr halley and disposall as aforesaid by him, and going alonge with what was as aforesaid sent by Mr halley to the sayd Howbart, Cox Tuck and Stock, hee being a Cooper therein imployed. And saith that at the time of such comming in and landing of the said oiles, the same one tonne with another was worth eighteene pounds sterling per tonne or betwixt eighteene and twenty pounds, which hee saith was then the market price of the like commoditie, and knoweth being a Cooper and acquainted with the valew of that commoditie. And saith that the seaven tonnes of oiles that were left and undisposed by Mr halley were of the worse sort of the said oiles for the most part of them, and were not answerable in goodnes to what was soe disposed of, And that they were left in a warehouse and subiect to the charge of warehouse hire, which hee alsoe knoweth because hee hooped and looked to them in point of Cooperage, and soe tooke notice of their qualities. And otherwise hee cannot depose To the Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING] John Otley [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] To the first hee saith hee well knoweth the producent Captaine Thomas and alsoe the defendant Edmund halley, and favoureth them alike, and otherwise negatively. To the second hee saith that hee saw and was at the making of the oiles interrogate, and saith that within the space of a week or thereabouts after the said landing, the foresaid oiles disposed of by Mr halley were sent away, and were removed and sent away by Mr halleys order, but for the moneth or day of the moneth hee remembreth them not, it being about two yeeres since as hee remembreth. And otherwise hee referreth himselfe to his foregoing deposition. To the third hee saith there were severall tonnes removed and disposed as aforesaid before any of the said oiles brought home were put into a warehouse, and then some were put into two warehouses, and after some of them againe sent away and disposed by Mr halley, And otherwise hee remembreth not saving as aforesaid. To the fourth hee saith hee sawe as aforesaid the oiles carried to houses (which were said to be the houses of the parties interrogate) but hee doth not know any of the said parties saving Mr Stock (or Scot) and otherwise hee cannot answer saving as aforesaid nor well remembreth the time. To the fifth hee saith that the said oiles that were left were of severall qualities some of the worser and some of the better sort, and this deponent pnce saw Captaine Thomas at the Stillyard gate speaking with Mr halley whilest the masters of the [?arlate] were there, but some of them were then discharged as aforesaid And otherwise hee cannot answer saving as aforesaid. To the 6 hee saith the interrogated Alexander Barfoote went Cooper the said voyage and this deponent his servant with him, and saith the oiles after [?loading] were at Mr halleys disposall, and otherwise hee cannot depose saving Mr Barfoote as Cooper was to looke to them to see to them being kept from leaking and the like, And otherwise saving as aforesaid hee cannot depose. John Otley [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] Repetit [?before] Doctor [?XXXXX]
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