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hee beleeveth it is not proper for him to … hee beleeveth it is not proper for him to testifie or answer<br />
anything for or against his owne<br />
reputation, And further to this Interrogatorie hee cannot answere
To the 6th hee saith hee is worth twenty pounds his debts paid and<br />
saith hee was required to testifie in this cause by the producent and<br />
hath receaved '''xx''' ''s'' for his losse of tyme in Coming from Portsmouth<br />
to London to be sworne and examined, and is not instructed by any one<br />
what to depose and expecteth nothing more than what hee hath as aforesayd receaved<br />
nor is promised anything more, And further to this Interrogatorie<br />
hee cannot answere./
To the 7th Interrogatorie hee answereth as before that the shipp<br />
the ''Prosperous'' was not lost for want of Ammunition but meerely<br />
by reason shee was over powered in number of men as aforesayd,<br />
and the noate in his Interrogatorie mentioned being now shewed<br />
unto him and read unto him, hee saith that the<br />
marke ''CR'' at the bottom thereof is his this deponents marke<br />
which hee usually maketh, and beleeveth the same was by him sett<br />
thereto as now it is, but with all saith<br />
that whereas it is expressed therein that there was but tenn or<br />
twelve shott at first aboard the ''Prosperous'' and that for want of powder and shott the Master and<br />
Company of the Shipp ''Prosperous'' were forsed to surrender her<br />
and her ladeing of Merchandizes to the man of warr, hee saith<br />
the same was not soe read to him then when hee signed the same,<br />
neither did hee before the Maior of Southampton affirme upon<br />
upon a bill any thing to that purpose but saith that Robert<br />
Richbell one of the parties in this suite did often tymes at his owne [?house] urge this<br />
deponent to saye soe while the same noate was<br />
drawing up at his house to bee prepared for this deponent to<br />
signe before the sayd Mayor, but this deponent constantly denyed<br />
that the sayd shipp ''Prosperous'' and goods in her was lost and surrendered<br />
for want to powder and shott, and saith this deponent knew not that<br />
it was soe expressed therein when hee signed the same before the<br />
sayd Major, And saith what ever is expressed in the sayd<br />
Noate contrary to this deponents deposition now made<br />
in this Court was put into the sayd noate without the knowledge<br />
and contrary to the intente of this deponent, and is utterly false<br />
and untrue, and saith by virtue of his oath that this deposition<br />
now made in this court is truth, And to the rest of the Interrogatorie<br />
hee cannot answere knowing nothing touching the noate annexed<br />
to the allegation aforesayd nor having deposed any thing touching<br />
the same./
Repeated before doctor Godolphin
the marke of the sayd<br />
Christopher '''C R''' Rogers./ [MARKE, RH SIDE]topher '''C R''' Rogers./ [MARKE, RH SIDE] +
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