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Transcription

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]