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To the second Interrogatorie hee answareth … To the second Interrogatorie hee answareth negatively./
To the third hee answareth negatively and otherwise referring him<br />
=selfe to his foresaid deposition he cannot depose
To the fourth he saith hee was by and present when the said Captaine<br />
Ashley [?refused] that hee had taken the said producents shipp and when<br />
he promised to give him a meeting about the same as before he hath deposed<br />
being about 4 monethes since in the high way or streete before<br />
the gate of the dwelling house of the said Ashley in Hackney [?park], there being present his said<br />
precontest, And otherwise hee referring himself to his for[?said] depositions he saith<br />
he cannot depose
Thomas Wh[?it] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
The said Christopher Mal[?im]m To the Interrogatories./ [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith that hee never (to his knowledge)<br />
saw the said Captaine Ashley before such time as hee went with the<br />
producent, to his house, as before he hath deposed And saith that hee wisheth<br />
the victory in this cause to him that hath most right, And otherwise negatively
To the second hee answareth negatively, and otherwise then as hee hath<br />
deposed hee saith he knoweth not./
To the third hee answarth negatively./
To the 4th hee saith hee was present when the said Captaine Ashley<br />
did confesse that hee did take the producents shipp and when hee made a [?promise]<br />
to meete him about the same, which was about 4 monthes since, before the<br />
doore of the house of the said Ashley, there being also present att the same<br />
time his contest Thomas White, All which was spoaken promised, and uttered<br />
in the words which hee hath deposed to which hee referreth himself and further<br />
hee cannot depose./
Repeated with his precontest<br />
before doctor Clarke./
Christopher Malim [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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29. Julij 1651 pr[XX].
Touching the shipp}<br />
the ''ffortune''}
'''Rp. 1.'''
'''Joseph Nicholls''' of Weymouth in the County of dorset<br />
Marriner aged 22 yeares or thereabouts sworne before<br />
the Right worshipfull William Clarke doctor of the lawes one of {the]<br />
Judges of the high court of Admiraltie, and examined about<br />
the saving of the shipp the ''ffortune'' deposeth as followeth. That hee<br />
this deponent was one of the Company of the Shipp the ''Peragrine'', and<br />
in Company of the shipp the ''Dragon'' (both belonging to the Parliaments<br />
ffleete, and Men of Warr) when the said shipp the ''ffortune'' was taken surprized<br />
and seised, as she came out of Galloway in Ireland from the [XXXXXs] quarter<br />
And saith that att the time of the sisure thereof videlicet in or about the month of<br />
July 1650, the said Shipp the ''Peregrine'' (whereof John Wood was Master0<br />
did make the first shott att the ''ffortune'', and was imediately in<br />
[?with] the said shipp the ''dragon'' and saith that hee this<br />
deponent and divers of the said shipps company was almost as soone abord<br />
the shipp the ''ffortune'' as those of the Company belonging to the ''dragon'' and<br />
had equall plunder and share of the pillage which they found in the said ''ffortune'' All<br />
this he deposeth for that hee was an Actor and an Eyeqittnes to the<br />
premisses, and further hee cannot depose./
Joseph Nicke[XX] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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On the same day./[CENTRE HEADING]
'''John Wood''' of Radcliffe in the parish of Stepney in the<br />
County of Middlesex Marriner aged 30 yeares or thereabouts<br />
sworne as aforesaid and examined deposeth as followeth
Thatd and examined deposeth as followeth
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