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To the second Interrogatorie hee anwereth … To the second Interrogatorie hee anwereth that hee well knoweth the shipp the ''John and Elizabeth''<br />
Interrate and went in her the whole voyage in question and was then Cabbin boy to the Interro<br />
gant Edward Keene the Master of her who undertooke to pay this rendent<br />
all his wages due for the voyage in question and hath paid him all save seaventeene shillings which is yet to bee [?had]<br />
and unpaid./
To the 3 and 4th Interrogatories hee saith that by reason hee went the voyage in question and was<br />
on board hee well knoweth that in the passage of the shipp ''John and Elizabeth'' for the<br />
Canaries shee met with very rough and stormy weather in which storme a shipp<br />
(whereof this deponent hath heard one fflute was Commander) did<br />
fall fowle of the ''John and Elizabeth'' and brake downe part of her waste, and saith that<br />
by the violence of the sayd storme the ''John and Elizabeth'' lost her Boltspritt and<br />
topp mast and topp sayle and part of her mayne mast, and her company (all but the Master and his mate<br />
and this deponent) imediately after the sayd shipp fell fowle of her as aforesayd<br />
utterly forsooke her and came aboard the sayd fflutes shipp and sayled away [?thence]<br />
and left the ''John and Elizabeth'' and the Master and mate and this rendent to the mercie of the<br />
Sea and came noe more on board her by which meanes and by reason of the damage receaved as aforesayd the<br />
sayd Master and mate and this rendent drave up and downe a longe tyme at se, and at last with<br />
great difficulty recovered Saint Lucar, And saith hee beleeveth it was impossible<br />
for the sayd shipp ''John and Elizabeth'' after shee had receaved the damage aforesayd and<br />
was forsaken of the greatest part of her company as aforesayd to have gone to the<br />
Canaries without being repayred And further saving his foregoeing deposition hee<br />
cannot answere./
To the 5th hee cvannot answere knowing nothing of the contents thereof
To the 6th hee this rendent being but a youth is not able to Judge of the matters<br />
Interrogate as whether the port of Saint Lucar be a fitt place to repayre shipps in nor<br />
knoweth what prizes materialls are there sold at and further cannot answere/
To the 7th hee cannot answere./
To the 8th saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot answere./
To the 9th saving his foregoeing deposition to which hee referreth hee cannot<br />
further answere to this Interrogatorie./
To the 10th hee saiththe Interrogated Keene did endeavour at Saint Lucar to get new Mariners<br />
to have gone to the Canaries, but could not get any to goe thither, and this rendent<br />
heard one who came Boatswaine of the ''John and Elizabeth'' for England, and others of the sayd<br />
shipps company who were hyred at Saint Lucar say they would not serve in her the ''John''<br />
''and Elizabeth'' unlesse shee went for England or words to that effect And saith the<br />
Company which were hyred at Saint Lucar by the sayd Keene, and did come to England in<br />
the ''John and Elizabeth'' were men who had lost their shipp it being cast away [?neare]<br />
Saint Lucar, and refused to serve the sayd Keene to any place but to England And<br />
further hee cannot answere./
To the 11th Interrogatorie and schedule therein mentioned and read now unto him at this<br />
his examination hee saith hee knoweth none of the persons Interrogate and as to the<br />
truth of the schedule, hee referreth him selfe to his foregoeing deposition wherein hee<br />
declared his knowledge of soe much thereof as hee knoweth to be truth And further hee<br />
cannot answere saving hee saith hee beleeveth Edward Keene and the shipp<br />
''John and Elizabeth'' in the sayd schedule named, and Edward Keene and the shipp ''John'<br />
''and'' and the shipp ''John'<br />
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