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Some men of warr, and particularly one Cap … Some men of warr, and particularly one Captain Locker and beleeveth the said<br />
Captain Stanton might in that time very well have sett to sea (in case there had<br />
not been some contest and difference between him and his shipps Companie)<br />
And further he cannot deposeth :/
To the 14th: hee refereth himself to his precedent deposition:/
To the 15th hee sayeth That hee this deponent being a Wine-Cooper by profession<br />
and particularly employed by the said Robert Rich to goe to the Isle of<br />
Wight for and about the mannagement and preservation of the wines seized?<br />
and brought up thither there in the shipps predeposed, well knoweth and ?tobe very<br />
exact notice, that there were in the said shipps about 600. tunnes of french<br />
wine, which the said Mr. Robert Rich did desire might be sould there at the<br />
Cowes, at some part of them were, and the rest to bee brought about to this<br />
Port of London, but the said Captains Stanton and Companie being refractory<br />
and unwilling, the said wines continued there undisposed of for sewall moneths<br />
and came not to this Port of London till about the moneth of July 1652<br />
in which time they were very much perished and leaked of this deponents<br />
sight and observation, who was (as being employed as aforesaid) necessitated<br />
to racke them aboard the shipp wherein they came being the ''Hoveling''<br />
And sayeth hee beleeveth and is in conscience convinced according to his<br />
predesposed declaration and imployment: both in generall as a Wine Cooper<br />
and in particular as to the Cause in Controversie, that the said Robert<br />
Rich and Consorts have really suffered and sustayned the dammage of<br />
1500 ''li'' sterling or thereabouts which they might have fairely and justly<br />
gained in rate the said wines had come to a convenient markett, as by the<br />
said Roberth Rich was desired The premisses hee declareth upon the grounds?<br />
predesposed, and further cannot depose:/
To the 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20th he deposeth not by direction of the producents
To the 21st: hee sayeth That hee this deponent well knoweth and saw and observed<br />
That the said Robert Rich did for all the time that this deponent was by him<br />
employed as aforesaid, carefully provide necessary victualls for the said<br />
Shipps Companie, but how much the same accounted unto this deponent: saith<br />
hee cannot declare not being privy to the particulars of the said expense:
To the 22nd hee sayeth, That hee beleeveth, That if the said Captain Stanton<br />
had within the time predeposed sett out to sea with the said shipp ''Elizabeth''<br />
hee might in all probability have mett with and taken some considerable<br />
Prizes. And further cannot depose.:/
To the rest hee is not examined by the direction of the producent
To the Crosse Interrogatories [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first hee answereth and saith, That hee knoweth nothing of<br />
or concerning the victualling interrate:
To the second hee saith, That the order given by the said Robert Rich<br />
by word of mouth as predeposed, was soe given to the said Captaine Stanton at<br />
Mr. Nailors house at the signe of the feathers in west Cowes in the Isle of Wight<br />
Where the said Robert Rich, Captain Stanton and the deposed lay and<br />
conversed together, And otherwise saving this foregoing<br />
deponent hee saith hee hee cannot depose:/deponent hee saith hee hee cannot depose:/ +
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