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Transcription

To the 3 and 4th interrogatories hee saith that hee hath heard and beleeveth that the
shipp interrogate did meete with a very violent storme at sea before hee putting in [?to]
Saint Lucar for that hee sawe when shee came in thither shee had as is predeposed
spent her masts and lost her tackle, and alsoe this deponent further saith that hee observed
at her arrivall there shee had only her master (who was sick) and his mate and [?a]
boy aboard her, all the rest of her company having as this deponent hath heard,
forsaken her and in come on board another vessell that fell fowle of her the sayd
John and Elizabeth at sea, soe that hee beleeveth it was impossible for her the John
and Elizabeth to proceed on her voyage to Santa Cruze until shee were furnished
with men instead of those that had forsaken her, and were alsoe repayred with
masts and tackling which shee wanted at her commeing in thither, And further
hee cannot answere./

To the 5th hee cannot depose/

To the 6th hee saith that for that hee this deponent is not a seaman hee cannot
judge whether Saint Lucar be a place fitt to repayre shipps in, but saith soe farr
as hee could and did observe all things materiall and fitt for such a work were there
sold at very deere rates And further hee cannot answere/

To the 7th hee saith hee knoweth not how many leagues distant Santa Cruze is from
Saint Lucar, and saith hee knoweth that while this deponent was at Saint Lucar some dutch men
whome the sayd Keene had hyred instead of his men which forsook him as aforesayd [?XXX]
sea did tell this deponent that they were willing to goe on the voyage to Santa Cruze
if the sayd Keene would goe thither, but whether any of the Company that came
in her to London were willing to have gone or would have gone in her to Santa
Cruze hee knoweth not nor hath heard And further cannot answere/

To the 8th saving his forgoing deposition hee cannot answere./

To the 9th hee saith as is predeposed that hee hath heard that a shipp did in a
storme at sea fall fowle of the John and Elizabeth and that all the John and Elizabeth
Company thereupon? forsooke her (save the master the mate and a boy) and were
aboard the sayd shipp which soe fell fowle of her, and came noe more
on board the John and Elizabeth, and saith hee hath heard one fflate? was Master
of the sayd shipp that soe fell fowle of the John and Elizabeth and further saving
his foregoeing deposition hee cannot answere./

To the 10th saving his foregoing deposition hee cannot answere

To the 11th hee saith hee knoweth the interrogate ffrancis Bedingfield
George Bland William Bland Peter Probie and Edward Walls and saith
are all merchants of good repute in Saint Lucar And saith hee beleeveth
John Keene and the shipp John and Elizabeth in this cause named and John [?Keene]
and the Catch John and Elizabeth in the Schedule interrogate named and [?XXX]
and the same man and shipp and not divers and further saving his forgoeing
deposition hee cannot answere/

Repeated before doctor Clarke and doctor Godolphin in Court/

The marke of the sayd (RH SIDE)
William WW Bottomly (RH SIDE)