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To the 7th article of the said Allegation … To the 7th article of the said Allegation hee saith hee well knoweth the shipp or<br />
Vessell the ''dove'' arlate, whereof Walter Cable was Master, and saith the<br />
said Vessell upon or about the seaventh day of August last past, in the<br />
night in Companie with the ''William and James'' qwherein this deponent<br />
served, passed a place in the sea called the Well, but whether any dammage<br />
was done in the said passage to the shipp the ''Successe'' arlate this deponent knoweth<br />
not, having not, so farr as hee remembreth, ever seene the said shipp ''Successe''<br />
neither at that nor any other time or place. And further cannot depose./
To the 10th hee saith, hee this deponent never heard the said Cable acknowledge<br />
any such thing as in the said article is expressed, nor any thing to that or the<br />
like effect. And further cannot depose./
To the rest hee is not examined by direction of the producent./
To the Crosse Interrogatories:-/ [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith, hee cometh to be a Wittnesse in this Cause<br />
at the request of the Master of the said shipp ''Successe'', and saith hee hath<br />
had onely twelve pence of the producent for his charges in coming to bee<br />
examined in this Cause, and expecteth not, nor is promised any more by any<br />
person whatsoever, And otherwise negatively:-/
To the second hee saith hee first saw the shipp the ''dove'' arlate about 16, or<br />
17. yeares since, and sailed in her then to Norway, and hath seene her severall<br />
times since, but remembreth not the times or places, save as aforesaid, and<br />
knoweth the said Cable onely by sight, And otherwise saving his foregoeing<br />
deposition cannot depose otherwise then negatively./
To the third, hee saith, That the place the Well interrate from [?CroXX GUTTER]<br />
to the Spurne is about 18. leagues over in this deponents Judgmwment and by<br />
common estimation, and saith the night wherein the said shipp ''dove'' passed<br />
that place or tract of Sea, was, as hee remembreth, a starr light night, And<br />
further cannot depose./
To the 4th hee saith hee hath not so deposed./
To the 5th hee saith, That hee this deponent hath often observed that the<br />
said shipp ''dove'' hath borne in her head the resemblance of an Angell<br />
and in her sterne the resemblance of a dove, And otherwise negatively<br />
saving his foregoeing deposition./
To the 6th hee saith hee hath not so deposed./
To the 7th negatively.
To the 8th hee saith hee cannot write or reade, and otherwise negatively<br />
saving his foregoeing deposition, and saving that hee tooke notice of and well<br />
remembreth the time interrate being then in the said shipp the ''William and''<br />
''James'' going for New Castle in Companie with the said shipp or Vessell the<br />
''Dove''./
Repeated before Doctor Clerke:-/
'''R''' [MARKE, RH SIDE]
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The same day Examined upon the said Allegation:/ [CENTRE HEADING]
'''Rp. 5us'''
'''Thomas Riggs''' of Wicklesham in the Countie of<br />
Suffolke Mariner aged 38. yeares or thereabouts<br />
(ad 38. yeares or thereabouts<br />
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