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Transcription

all used and imployed about the sayd shipp Lyon and her boates to her
belonging but did not see them soe imployed nor remembreth the
particuler dayes of the delivery of them Gough hee helped to make them and
sawe the delivery and weighing of them And further cannot answere/

To the 4th hee saith hee hath heard that before the sayd Gough did furnish the
sayd Christmas with any Iron worke for the sayd shipp Lyon the Interrogate
Barnackle did furnish her with some Iron worke but with what quantitie
or what the sayd Barnackle was to have for it by the hundred hee knoweth
not nor hath heard And further cannot answere/

To 5th hee saith hee that worke done by the sayd Barnackle
for the shipp Lyon aforesayd was great boltes about the Keelsten and l[?ower]
partes of the sayd shipp which is bigger worke then the sayd Goughs was, and
were goes readier off of hand, and more of it may dispatched in a day then
could of that which the sayd Gough did And further cannot answere/

To the 6th hee saith that hee this deponent scored up the goodes predeposed as they
were weighed and delivered, and once a weeke gott a Scrivener to put the particulars
in writing according as they were scored hee this deponent not being able to
write And further hee cannot answere/

To the 7th hee saith the Iron worke in question was wrought in Rederiff
parish in a shopp whereof the sayd Christmas was reputed Owner and saith
Gough did not dwell there but had his residence at Shadwell in the
parish of Stepney And what the sayd shopp was worth for the tyme Interrogate
hee knoweth not and further cannot answere/

To the 8th hee saith hee answereth negatively saving hee saith that one
tyme there being two drought of Iron worke to weigh, the same was weighed, but
not carried out of the shopp, and the sayd Christmas coming in presently
after the same was weighed, began to finde fault and say the scales
were not even and that Gough and his servantes Cozened him the sayd
Christmas in the weight of things, whereupon hee this deponent replyed
and sayd thus or to thelike effect videlicet truly Master Christmas for my part I
scorne to Cozen you or any body in weight, and as for Gough hee is sick at
home, and soe the scales being tryed and it appearing that they were
not even hee this deponent not knowing what was to cause thereof upon serious view of them found that an eye
of a tackle hooke which used bee hanged upon one of the scales to make
them even was taken away, which was the cause that the scales were
not even and this deponent speakeing thereof and saying that was the
cause one George (his other name hee knoweth not) a labourer usually imployed by the sayd Christmas in his
yarde did acknowledge and confesse that hee had that day taken the scales out
into the yarde to weigh some things and that by that meanes the sayd eye of
the sayd tackle hooke was lost And saith that a ring being hung
on in place of the tackle hooke to make the scales even the sayd Iron worke
was againe weighed before ever it was taken out of the shopp, and the same
wanting about a pound weight in two draughts by reason of the want of the tackle hooke
the sayd Christmas had abatement for that pound weight And this
deponent doth by virtue of his oath affirme that the sayd eye of the tackle
hooke was upon the scales that day imediately before the scales were taken
into