, more elaborate, as used in
1798, may be found in Christopher Robinson's _Admiralty Reports_, I.
381-389, and in Marriott, _Formulare Instrumentorum_ (London, 1802),
pp. 130-148. Since in civil-law procedure witnesses were not examined
orally in open court, but all testimony was obtained in the form of
written depositions, it was advisable in prize proceedings, in order
that examinations might be thorough and searching, to employ standard
sets of questions, ready-made. Anthony Stokes (1735-1799), from whose
book the present specimen is taken, was an English or Welsh lawyer,
practised law in Antigua and St. Christopher 1763-1769, and was
chief-justice of Georgia, 1769-1776, 1779-1782, then retired to
England as a loyalist. His book contains many specimens of documents
used in proceedings before the vice-admiralty courts in the colonies.]

_Antigua._ _Interrogatories_ administered to
witnesses _in preparatorio_, touching
In the Court of Vice and concerning the seisure and taking
Admiralty. of a certain Schooner, named
_Princess of Orange_, alias _Flying
Fish_, whereof Casparus Wyneburgh
was Master, by the private
Schooner of War _Mary_, whereof Edward Richards
is Commander.

1. Where was you born, and where do you now live, and how long have
you lived there, and where have you lived for seven years last past?
are you subject to the Crown of Great Britain, or of what Prince or
State are you a subject?

2. When, where, and by whom was the schooner and lading, goods and
merchandises, concerning which you are now examined, taken and seised,
and into what place or port were the same carried? whether was there
any resistance made, or any guns fired against the said schooner, or
persons who seised and took the same, and what and how many, and by
whom?

3. Whether was you present at the time of the taking or seizing the
schooner and her lading, goods and merchandises, concerning which you
are now examined, or how and when was you first made acquainted
thereof? whether was the said schooner and goods taken by a man of
war, or a private man of war, and to whom did such man of war, or
private man of war belong? had they any commissions to act as such,
and from and by whom, and by what particular vessel, or by whom was or
were the said schooner seized and taken? to what kingdom, country,