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1. knoweth that the same is made lawfull soe to doe by an ancient
2. statute of this Realme of England made in the tymes of King henry the
3. seaventh or King henry the eight to which statute for more suretie hee
4. referreth himselfe And further to this article hee cannot depose/
5. To the 2 ˹3 and 4th˺ articles of the sayd allegation hee saith that of his certayne
6. knowledge there hath bin during all the tyme arlate and still is a
7. shelve or banke of ......... gravell in the River of Thames opposite
8. to the wharfe of the arlate Ewen: where hee this deponent and
9. the arlate Pryor and his servants and other Lightermen to the number
10. of at least forty ˹and more˺ have ..................... of this deponents sight and
11. knowledge have used to worke and take up ballast during all the
12. yeares and tyme arlate, and this deponent hath ........... many tymes
13. seene the sayd Pryor and his servants ....................... worke upon takeing up of
14. ballast upon the sayd shelve or banke, and hath alsoe seene the servants
15. of the arlate Mr Ewen the late husband of Mrs Ewen the party in this
16. cause (who alsoe kept lighters of his owne and imployed them in takeing
17. up ballast upon the same shelve or banke) worke and take up ballast
18. upon the sayd shelve or banke, ..........................................................
19. And hee this deponent hath observed that the sayd Pryor and his
20. servants have at such tymes wrought fayerly and orderly as other
21. lightermen use to doe without makeing hills or holes or pitts in
22. the River to the endangering of shipps or boates in their passage
23. but hath wrought orderly and cleered the river as others did for the
24. benefitt of Navigation, And this deponent hath ......................... sawe ˹and˺ ..... observed
25. that the sayd ..................................... Master Ewens his servants
26. did usually worke upon the sayd shelfe within about one hundred and
27. sixteene foote ˹off˺ of his the sayd ewens his wharfe, and made a channell
28. about fifty fower foote broad as this deponent and his contests upon
29. ......... Thomas Jones John Orton William Nodes Edward Ryder and
30. others upon survey and measuring the same doe finde ..... (the sayd
31. shelfe being usually bare at lowe water) .........................................
32. ............................................................ And this deponent and the
33. sayd Thomas Jones and others were present when the sayd Mrs Ewens did
34. cause the sayd Pryors ......... lighter ....... to bee carried on shoare to her
35. wharfe from the place where the sayd Pryors men were workeing and
36. takeing up ballast and this deponent and the sayd Jones and others then present
37. seeing the sayd Lighter violently carried away from the place where shee was
38. at worke, did take speciall notice of the place where she was at worke when
39. shee was soe carried away, and this deponent and the sayd Jones Orton Nodes Ryder
40. and others having since measured the same at lowe water, doe finde that the place
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