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To the 8th article hee saith that hee this deponent for these three moneths
last past hath by the appointment of the sayd Orton imployed the hoy
arlate and hath made as is predeposed 4 voyages in her for one of which
voyages the sayd Orton received eighteene shillings and allowed unto this
deponent sixe shilling sthereof And further hee cannot depose the money
for the other three voyages being as hee beleeveth not yet receaved of the Commonwealths officers for
whome the sayd voiages were undertaken and donne./

To the 9th article of the sayd allegation hee saith and deposeth
that hee well knoweth that upon thursday the third day of this instant
November one James Giles an officer belonging and imployed
by the Court of Admiralty to execute warrants did in the presence of this
deponent and on board the sayd hoye the Constant aforesayd, serve a warrant
upon the arlate Orton which warrant the sayd Gyles read in the presence and
hearing of this deponent, and hee this deponent well remembreth that the effect
of the sayd warrant was to arrest the sayd Orton and his fowerth part
of the sayd hoye And alsoe saith that the next day videlicet on ffriday the
4th of the sayd moneth the sayd Gyles came to this deponent and told him that hee had
from the sayd Orton a warrant procured by him out of the
Admiralty Court to release the sayd hoy from the Arrest predeposed
of, and read the same to this deponent but the particulers of the sayd Release
and the suggestions whereupon the same was grounded and procured hee
remembreth not, but for more certainety thereof referreth himselfe
to the Registry of the sayd High Court of Admiralty and to the sayd
Release procured out of the same, but saith hee well knoweth that the
sayd hoy the Content was not (at the tyme of the sayd release [?XXXXX]
on this deponent) in the service of this Commonwealth, nor [?pressed]
for any service thereof but was cleere from the same, and saith that
on the third day of November about an hower or two after the sayd
Orton was arrested in manner predeposed by the sayd Gyles, And
this deponent also saith that after the sayd hoye was soe [?cleered]
of the service of this Commonwealth and before the
release of the arrest aforesayd was served upon this deponent hee
was offered and could have had fower pounds sterling for freight to goe with the sayd hoye on a voyage
to Rochester but the sayd Orton having procured the sayd release

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sayd voyage to Rochester and ws forced to goe with his sayd hoy to the [?XXXX] [?XXX]
there to take in such goods as should be laded on board
after the service of this Commonealth And further to this article hee
cannot depose./

To the last article hee saith his foregoeing depositions are true/

To the Crosse Interrogatories

To the first Interrogatory hee saith hee cometh to be a witnesse in this
cause

Smith