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goods are in when they are stowed and this rendent being present at the stoweing of the
baggs of pepper predeposed of did take speciall notice that they were very wett in soe
much that the water might have been wrunge out of them and this deponent seeing
the ill condition they were in was unwilling to receave them on board and would
not have receaved them but that the lighter men refused to carry the sayd
baggs of pepper againe and soe in a manner constreyned the shipps company
to take them aboaard And further saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot answere
saving hee saith that it being the gutie of the Masters mate to tell the Master of such
things as is Interrogate hee this rendent did not speake to him thereof

To the 4th hee saith hee was not present at the bargaine makeing when the Interrate
haslegrace sold part of the pepper at Cadiz but hee this rendent helped to
slinge some of the same out of the hold, but knoweth not how many hundred weight there
was of it nor for how much or to whom it was sold./

To the 5th hee saith the pepper hee helped to slinge was in baggs and hee being
under decks sawe not the weight of it and further hee cannot answere

Repeated before doctor Clarke

Samuell M Symonds
his marke [MARKE, RH SIDE]

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The sayd John Tyle

To the first Interrogatorie hee saith hee as a Quartermaster in the Shipp
Interrogate the voyage Interrogate and was paid his full wages for his service
and is not indebted nor of kinne to the producent nor a servant to him otherwise
then as his place in shipp requireth

To the 2 and 3 Interrogatories hee saith it is not usuall for Masters of shipps to take
notice and Care them selves of the stowage of goods or what condition they are
in when stowed but the care thereof is usually committed to their Mates who doe
usually take notice what condition the goods are in when stowed And further to
these Interrogatories hee cannot depose for the reasons in his foregoeing
deposition expressed videlicet that hee came aboard at dover Roade after
the pepper in question was stowed/

To the 4th and 5th Interrogatories hee saith hee was not present at the bargaine makeing
when the Interrogated haslegra[?ce] sold the pepper predeposed of at Cadiz nor knoweth
how many hundred weight the pepper there sold weighed nor to whome the
same was sold nor what was paid for the same for that hee this deponent
was under decks in hold helpeing to sling the same out And further hee
cannot answere

REpeated before doctor Clarke

John [?XXXX] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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The 8th day of May 1655/ [CENTRE HEADING]

Arnold and Elias Beake and others Owners of the}
Saint John Baptist and the goods lately seized in}
the same by Captaine Robert Sedgewick}
Captaine John Le[?wret] and others against}
the sayd Captaine Sedgewick: Suckley: Budd}

Examined upon an allegation on the behalfe
of the sayd Arnold and Elias Beake and others

vide. B12/

2dus/

Thomas Smith of Rederith in the County
of Surrey Mariner aged twenty sixe
yeares or thereabouts a witnesse sworne and
examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet

To the first article hee saith hee was present when the arlate Mr Arnold
and Elias Beake and alsoe Mr John do[?lins] and Mr Thomas Greene four of
the reputed Owners of the shipp Saint John Baptist and her ladeing in question did
before