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Carpenters for the stopping of her leakes … Carpenters for the stopping of her leakes which being done, this deponent<br />
the next day after videlicet; the thirtith of August commanded his sayd Lieutenant John Gough to goe againe<br />
aboard the shipp Interrogate to those of the ''Lyons'' Company which hee this deponent<br />
had left aboard her on the 29th day, and use his best endeavour to preserve<br />
the sayd shipp and her ladeing and this deponent on the 31th of the sayd moneth sent alsoe one Mr Foscu to<br />
assist the sayd Gough, and by the sayd Foscu sent order that they should fetch<br />
or make any port in England that they best could, and this deponent<br />
promised the sayd Foscu to stand in to shoare with him to helpe in case the<br />
shipp Interrogate should have sunck which the deponent accordingly did<br />
and this deponent alsoe ordered the sayd Gough soe soone as they should<br />
have made a port to go to the vice Admirall of the County and receive such further<br />
order touching the sayd shipp and goods as hee should give, by which meanes this deponent<br />
knoweth (hee being a little off at sea in the ''Lyon'' to observe what<br />
became of her, and observing that they fired noe pieces of Ordinance from<br />
the shipp Interrogate as this deponent alsoe commanded the in case they were<br />
in any necessitie that they gott safe to Bricksham Key in Tourbay And<br />
further to this article hee cannot of his certaine knowledge depose saving hee saith hee<br />
hath heard the sayd Gough saye that they afterwards gott the shipp<br />
Interrogete and her ladeing into Dartmouth with much difficulty and labour<br />
and further to this article hee cannot depose saving hee saith there was in her at the tyme<br />
Interrogate oyles, some seale skinnes whalebone, a smale quantity of Cider and some deske<br />
chests and a Copper to boyle oyle and that shee had also aboard her then<br />
eight peece of iron Ordinance./
To the 3rd, 4th and 5th interrogatories hee saith hee<br />
knoweth not the name of the Shipp Interrogate,nor<br />
who had bin master of her, all her company being carried away out<br />
of her, and as hee supposed the shipp which hee sawe receave her aboard<br />
before this deponent came at her, tooke away her men of her and<br />
what else they could take away, and hee saith by her ladeing hee beleeveth<br />
she came from Gravesend and hee saith shee is Flemish built, but hee beleeveth<br />
she belonges to Frenchmen<br />
for that she was taken to the West of the Lizard by which (????) the Flemmings<br />
used not to come, but did usually pass by Shottland and soe for Holland<br />
as alsoe for that there was Cider found aboard her which the Flemmish<br />
use not to carrie, And further saving his foregoeing deposition hee<br />
cannot depose saving hee saith there were noe bills of ladeing or any<br />
other writings found aboard her at her siezure aforesaid/<br />
To the 6th hee saith hee beleeveth she had bin in fight with some shipp<br />
or shipps before her siezure by the Company of the ''Lyon'',<br />
for that hee sawe she had receaved some shott under<br />
water and had receaved shott in her hull alsoe abaove water and for that<br />
a great part of her tackleing was cutt and shott apeeces, which hee<br />
beleeveth was done by the fower shipps which this deponent and company<br />
sawe with them before the ''Lyon'' came neeere her, and fled from her<br />
upon the ''Lyons'' neerer approach, hee whereof after a while tacked againe<br />
toward the ''Lyon'', and the ''Lyon'' leaving the vessell interrogate and<br />
standing with them, they being cleane tallowed shipps and sayling (?????)<br />
then the'' Lyon'' gott away. And further to this Interrogatorie hee cannot depose/
Repeated before Doctor Godolphin
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