| First transcribed
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17 January 2015 +
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| First transcriber
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Colin Greenstreet +
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| Folio
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499 +
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| Parent volume
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HCA 13/70 +
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| Side
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Recto +
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| Status
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Uploaded image; transcribed on 17/01/2015 +
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| Transcription
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water and hee saith hee this deponent hath … water and hee saith hee this deponent hath observed for these twentye yeares<br />
last past hee having bin a waterman used the river of Thames soe longe and longer that it hath bin the custome that shipps who came into the<br />
River of Thames laden, may and doe usually fasten to any shipp lying<br />
in the sayd River either by a chayne or otherwise moored.<br />
for the space of one tyde and hee hath knowne divers shipps<br />
doe soe and this custome hee saith is well knowne to Mariners and such as<br />
use the River of Thames And further hee cannot depose saving his<br />
following deposition/
To the third and fowerth articles hee saith that after the sayd Woodfin<br />
was come on board the''ffrancis and Mary'' a hawser was fastned by<br />
some of the sayd Captaine Woodfins Company to the Cable of the<br />
''ffrancis and Mary'' and continued there fastned to the sayd Cable<br />
about a quarter of an hower in which tyme the sayd Woodfins company<br />
heaved their shipp to the ''ffrancis and mary'' and some of them went on<br />
board her intending (as this deponent beleeveth) to make gast<br />
an other hawser about the ''ffrancis and Maries'' Mizen Mast or<br />
some other part of her, but the sayd Captaine Smith seeing<br />
their intente tooke a hatchet and in a willfull and angrie manner cut the sayd ''Exeter Merchants''<br />
hawser which was soe fastned to the ''ffrancis and Maries'' Cable after<br />
it had bin soe fastned above a quarter of an hower, and contrary to the<br />
Custome predeposed of turned her the ''Exeter Merchant'' and her ladeing<br />
on [?derift], and while these things were thus acteing the tyde being<br />
turned and the tyde of ebb running stronge the sayd Woodfin with much<br />
hazard leaped from aboard the sayd ''ffrancis and Marie'' to his<br />
owne shipp and caused his company presently<br />
to dropp an Anchor and vere their cable and doe their utmost diligence<br />
to prevent any damage either to their owne shipp or any other that<br />
lay neere which notwithstanding the force of the Ebb carried<br />
the ''Exeter Merchant'' fowle of the arlate shipp the ''Pilgrim''<br />
(who laye asterne of her)<br />
with such force that thereby shee brake her and her owne quarter and her[?gallery] against<br />
the ''Pilgrims'' Boltspritt ans was forced on ground togeather with<br />
the ''Pilgrim'' and an other ship who lay by the ''Pilgrims'' side<br />
And hee saith hee this deponent the better knoweth the premisses for that<br />
hee was neere the ''Exeter Merchant'' in a wherrie of his owne till such tyme as the''Exeter''<br />
''Merchant'' was turned on drift, and then hee went on board the ''Pilgrim''<br />
)out of which hee was to have receaved goods into his wherrie) by which meanes<br />
hee came to knowe and see the oremisses predeposed touching the ''Exeter Merchants''<br />
falling fowle of the ''Pilgrim'', And saith had not hee this deponent made hastesaith had not hee this deponent made haste +
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