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foregoing deposition hee cannot now partic … foregoing deposition hee cannot now particularly answere/
To the 2 hee saith that hee that is an able mariner though hee<br />
have not made a voyage to either the Canaries or Barbados [and GUTTER]<br />
easily by helpe of his instruments and platts or sea Cards and<br />
other helpes bearing knowledge of the latitude of the place sayle [a GUTTER]<br />
shipp thither, and saith hee is noe way related to the sayd Jones or<br />
Read or any of the Owners of the shipp Interrogate otherwise than<br />
that hee went in her the voyage in question in the qualities before<br />
mentioned And further hee cannot answere./
To the 3 Interrogatorie hee saith the sayd shipp was from three and twentith<br />
to the twenty nynth day of April 1657 passing from Garacheeco to Santa<br />
Cruce in the Island of Palma and saith Garacheeco and Santa Cruce lye<br />
opposite one to an other and about eighteene leagues distant, And<br />
saith that through the ignorance of the foresayd Gyles bayley who<br />
was pylott and mate of the shipp and told the sayd Jones that<br />
hee the sayd Bayley had bin formerly at Santa Cruce and could carrie her<br />
thither safe and well, there were three or fower dayes spent more<br />
then needed in the passage thither the sayd bayley sayling round a good part of the Island<br />
of Palma which hee needed not to have done, and the sayd Jones<br />
seeing and observing his ignoarance, thereupon tooke the ordering of the<br />
shipps course him selfe and soe brought her safe into the roade of<br />
Santa Cruce And further saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot<br />
answere/
To the 4th Interrogatorie hee saith there were in all seaventy eight pipes<br />
of wyne laden aboard the sayd shipp at Palma, whereof one had<br />
noe marke at all, and the rest were marked [?some] of them with<br />
the one of the markes Interrogate and the rest with the other, which<br />
markes were as in the Margent and saith this deponent being a dutch<br />
man did in respect of the difference betwixt England and Spaine act<br />
as master on shoare in the Canaries and did signe bills for the sayd<br />
seaventy eight pipes of wines as belonging to John Aveeles of Amsterdam<br />
and saith the bill of ladeing Interrogate, and the postscript to the same<br />
was and is signed with this deponents owne hand writing And further<br />
to this Interrogatorie hee cannot answere/
To the 5th Interrogatorie hee saith that the Interrogate da Monteoi[X]do did<br />
as hee told this deponent intende to have sent six pipes of<br />
wine more aboard the sayd ''Golden ffortune'', but for whose Account<br />
they should have bin hee this deponent knoweth not, And saith that there being a<br />
Spanish weighter aboard and hee one day seeing<br />
a servant of Mr Cowses that was aboard come upon the deck and perceive<br />
him by his habit to bee noe Mariner and conceiving him to bee an<br />
English man had thereupon discovered the shipp to be English but<br />
that Jones the Master gave him some gratuities and soe the said waiter<br />
byies and soe the said waiter<br />
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