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To the 5th hee saith, That by reason of th … To the 5th hee saith, That by reason of the said wilfulnes or<br />
neglect and the soe veering of the said lighter and breaking the<br />
hawsor and putting the said lighter with the wynes adrift, one of the said<br />
pipes of wyne was staved and utterly lost whereby the said Travers was<br />
and is in this deponents judgment and estimation really damnified to the valew<br />
of thirtie pounds at least of lawfull English money, a pipe of such<br />
wine being then really worth and usually sold amongst Merchants at that<br />
rate; The premisses hee knwingly deposeth, being an Eye wittnesse<br />
thereof and a Cooper by trade, and soe knowing the valewes of wynes
To the 6th hee saith, That the dammage aforesaid was wholely and<br />
solely occasioned by the meanes predeposed:-
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To the last hee saith, his foregoeing deposition is true:/
ffrancis Gythens [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The same day Examined upon the said Libell:-
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'''John Bonnett''' of Philpott Lane in London Cooper<br />
aged 28. yeares or thereabouts a Wittnesse sworne and<br />
examined saith as followeth videlicet
To the first and 2d hee saith, That in the moneth of January last past this<br />
deponent was aboard a Lighter whereof one Tailor was Master having<br />
severall pipes of spanish wines aboard her, which as this deponent then understood by<br />
his precontest and others then aboard were the proper goods of the arlate Mr Giles<br />
Travers, and saith the said Lighter with wines then lay well and<br />
sufficiently moored in a convenient place at Buttolphs wharfe where<br />
lighters usually lye to bee unladen, and that shee continued there in safety<br />
from about 10. of the Click in the night till about 5. or 6. of the<br />
Clock in the morning about which time the disaster hereafter deduced<br />
did happen, this deponent being then aboard her And futher saving his<br />
subsequent deposition hee cannot depose:-/
To the third hee saith, That hee this deponent at the time aforesaid being<br />
employed upon another lighter which then lay neere the said Tailors lighter<br />
with the said wine, there being then a fire aboard her where hee went<br />
to warme himselfe, and there continued till about five or 6. of the Clock<br />
in the morning, at or about which time another lighter belonging to one<br />
Mr Pomroy of the burthen of about 80. or 100. tonnes and lyeing a head the said Lighter wherein the spanish wynes<br />
were, and carelessly veering with a strong tide of Ebbe, this deponents<br />
precontest and abother Cooper from aboard the said Tailors Lighter did<br />
severall times and earnestly call and crye out to the said Pomroy or Company<br />
aboard his said Lighter to bee carefull in their Veering, for that if they<br />
were not but Veered upon the said Tailors lighter they would breake the<br />
halsor and very much endeanger or damnify the Lading of Spanish wines<br />
which shee had aboard her or words to the like effect, Which thiser or words to the like effect, Which this +
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