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To the last hee saith his foregoeing depos … To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition. [PRESUMABLY "is true" HAS BEEN OMITTED IN ERROR]
To the Interrogatories [CENTRE HEADING]
To the 1 Interrogatorie hee saith hee came to testifie the truth of his knowledge<br />
in this cause at request of Mr Bence the producent, to whome hee<br />
is Cooper and hath noe other relation to him, and saith hee hath noe relation<br />
to the Interrogated Mr Edward Bushell, and saith hee first sawe the chests of sugar<br />
in the hold of the ''Oporto Merchant'' as shee lay in the River of Thames<br />
in the moneth of december last, betwixt the eighteenth and three and twentith days<br />
thereof, the tyme more certaynly hee doth not now remember, And saith the<br />
said Chests of sugar were drye on the topp and wett at the bottome And further<br />
saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot answere saving hee saith hee knoweth<br />
that the dammage which happened to the sayd sugars happened before it<br />
was unladen out of the sayd shipp, And beleeveth that it happened not<br />
before the ladeing of the same aboard the shipp for that if the same had<br />
bin damnified by wett before the ladeing it would have ranne out like<br />
Molasses, or syropp, and the dammage would easily have appeared at<br />
the ladeing and might easily have bin taken notice of by those who receaved<br />
them aboard./
To the 2 Interrogatorie hee saith hee was not in the voyage in question, and soe not present<br />
at the stowing nor sawe the spilling or running out of any oyle, nor sawe<br />
the sugar weighed, and saith it is usuall for sugars to bee weighed by the<br />
officers of the Custome house when they are landed and therefore beleeveth there<br />
could noe losse or dammage happen to the sayd sugars after their unladeing<br />
for that hee knoweth they were brought ashoare the same day they were<br />
unladen and that one John the servant of Mr ffowler a Cooper (imployed to that<br />
purpose) came with them in the lighter And further saving his foregoeing<br />
deposition hee cannot answere/
To the 3th hee saith hee did see how the sugars in question laye, and knoweth<br />
that they were stowed upon the ground tyre, and stood wett as aforesayd,<br />
And to the rest of the Interrogatorie hee being noe Seaman nor skilled in Sea<br />
affayres cannot answere thereto./
To the 4th Interrogatorie hee saith hee knoweth not that any one named Watson<br />
came to view the shugars in question, not knowing the mans name whome the<br />
sayd Careswell brought to Chesters Key as aforesayd, And saith that<br />
hee this deponent knoweth that there was above twenty hundred weight of sugar<br />
damnified, And further saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot answere/
To the last hee saith saving his foregeoing deposition to which hee<br />
referreth hee cannot more particularly answere to this Interrogatorie./
Repeated before doctor Godolphin
Lewis Prydyth [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 18th of Mary 1658/
Cowse and Cowse against Read and Jones)<br />
Suckley Smith)
Examined on an allegation on the behalfe of the sayd Read and Jones./
'''Rp. jus.'''
'''John Watson''' of Saint Catherine neere the Tower<br />
of London Cittizen and Merchantaylor of London<br />
aged thirty fower yeares or thereabouts a wittnesse<br />
sworne and examined saith as followeth videlicet
To examined saith as followeth videlicet
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