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Transcription

The 8th of 9ber 1655/ [CENTRE HEADING]

Mabb against Greene}
ffrancklin Smith}

Examined upon an allegation bearing date the 2 of October
1655 made on behalfe of the sayd Greene./

'Smith. Greene [?XX]

George Coddington of London Chirugion aged 26 yeares or
thereabouts a wittnes sworne and examined saith and deposeth as
followeth videlicet./

To the first article hee saith that hee this deponent was Chirugion of and aboard
the arlate ffrigott the hector in the moneth of September 1654 and thereby
knoweth and well observed that about the 15th day of the sayd Moneth of
September 1654 the arlate henry Mabb being then Master of the hector
and a Collyer being comming up the River of Thames laden and neere the hector the sayd Mabb
would not suffer his company of the hector (though they desyred him to give
them leave and told him it was requisite for him to doe soe) to vere the hectors
Cable that the Collier might winde up being laden and passe cleere of the
hector, by which meanes a collier to whome the hector laye fastned with
a hawser seeing the sayd mabbs obstinacie and fearing that
it might occasions