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To the Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING]
… To the Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first hee saith hee conceiveth hee ought to have a share in<br />
the said shipp the ''Saint John Baptist'' and lading if they be adiudged prize, as<br />
hee was an officer as aforesaid. And saith hee can speake some<br />
dutch, Spanish, and latin, besides his mother tongue, which is English.<br />
And otherwise hee referreth himselfe to his foregoeing deposition.
To the second hee saith hee cometh required by the said major Sedgwick<br />
to speake the truth in this cause; and saith hee doth not desire<br />
nor would adjudge the said shipp and goods for prize, but according<br />
to right and iustice, and otherwise hee referreth himselfe to his<br />
foregoeing deposition. not being at the said counsell of warr.
Tio the third hee saith that both the ''black Raven'' and the ''Hope''<br />
were dutch built shipps, and as hee taketh it, they haled the<br />
''Saint John Baptist'' in dutch, and hee beleeveth the master and<br />
company of the ''John Baptist'' tooke the ''Black Raven'' and<br />
the rest of the fleete to be dutch, And otherwise hee cannot<br />
depose saving his foregoeing deposition to which hee referreth himselfe.
To the fourth hee saith the ''Saint John Baptist''<br />
was of the burthen of 140 tonnes or thereabouts. And that<br />
her goods were unladen at Boston in New-England, at least the most<br />
part thereof were there unladen, but this deponent bought most part of them.<br />
And otherwise hee cannot depose, saving as aforesaid.
To the fifth hee saith hee cannot answer thereto.
To the 6th hee saith that before the said seizure, the said ffleet<br />
tooke a small vessell of the burthen of 60 or 80 tonnes laden<br />
with salt, and had her in their company, when they tooke the<br />
''Saint John Baptist'', but after the seizure of the ''Saint John Baptist'',<br />
and asoone as they had opportunitie (for before they had not through<br />
the roughnesse of the weather) major Sedgewick or others of the<br />
said fleete examined the master and company of the said small vessell and<br />
finding them to be Swedes, dismissed them and their vessell, and put the ''Saint John''<br />
''Baptists'' men into her to be carried homewards. And saith they<br />
were about an hundred leagues to the westward of Scilly when<br />
they soe seized the ''Saint John Baptist''. And otherwise saving as<br />
aforesaid hee cannot answer.
Repeated before the three Judges in Court.
Augustin Lyndon [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]urt.
Augustin Lyndon [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] +
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