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and saith there were noe writings at all f … and saith there were noe writings at all found on board that this deponent<br />
knoweth of And further hee cannot answere/
To the 6th hee saith it did evidently appeare to this deponent and the Company of the ''Lyon''<br />
who were on board her as aforesayd that the sayd shipp had not longer<br />
before her being soe found, bin in fight with some other shipp or shipps<br />
for that when shee was found as aforesaid shee had many shott in her and her tackle was cutt to peeces and the<br />
shipp rifled upon the gunne deck, and chessts s[?taved] to peeces and nothing<br />
eft in them And further saving his foregeoing deposition hee cannot answere/
Repeated before doctor Godolphin/
John Gough [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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Ther same day [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined upon the said Interrogatories/
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'''Jacob Martin''' of Shadwell in the parish of Stepney and County<br />
of Middlesex Mariner aged 22 yeares or thereabouts a wittnes<br />
sworne and examines saith as followeth: videlicet/
To the first hee saith the shipp Interrogate was found driving upon the sea<br />
about thirty leagues to the Southwards from the lands end, with noe living<br />
Creature aboard her save a dogg, and ratts and other vermin, with her hold full<br />
of water up to the Gunne deck, and her yardes and tackle cut downe and broken<br />
and lying upon the deck, and the sayles carried away, And saith shee was soe<br />
founde driving by Captaine John Lambert Commander of the ''Lyon''<br />
( a shipp in service of this Commonwealth) and his Company as they came<br />
from the West Indies, And saith the said Captaine seeing her soe<br />
driving commanded this deponent and others of the Company of the ''Lyon''<br />
to goe on board her and doe their best endeavour to preserve her and her<br />
ladein, and according to the sayd Captaines Commands hee this deponent<br />
and his contest John Gough and others of the sayd ''Lyons'' Company to the number<br />
of about forty five persons went on board her, and with great hazard of their lives and labour<br />
at two pumpes continually goeing, and divers mens labour bayling water<br />
with bucketts out of her, and with the helpe of a spritsayle which they<br />
tooke out of the ''Lyon'' to make a foresayle for the shipp Interrgoate<br />
they brought her with much difficulty to Bricksheim Key within Torrbay, being the first<br />
Port they could make, the winde blowing high to the Southward soe that<br />
they could not bring her to dartmouth whether they were ordered by<br />
the sayd Captaine to carry her, And saith that after her arrivall<br />
at Bricksham Key her leakes were in some meaasure stopped and shee<br />
ordered by the Vice Admirall for devonshire or some<br />
other officer there having authoirity soe to doe to be carried to daratmouth<br />
but hee this deponent and others then on board her went not<br />
in her to dartmouth but were ordered by the sayd Vice Admirall or other<br />
officer aforesayd to goe to Portsmouth to their sayd shipp the ''Lyon'', and if<br />
shee were not there to goe to London, And further hee cannot answer<br />
for that hee went not to Portsmouth in her/
To the 2 hee saith there was in her when shee was soe found driveing a great<br />
quantitieund driveing a great<br />
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