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<document-start>
1. The 11th of May 1657.
2. <margin value="Left">Ewen against Prior aforesaid.}</margin>
3. Exámined upon the fore said libell.
4. <margin value="Left">Rp. 2</margin>
5. Anthony Deane of Greenwich Shipwright aged 25 yeeres or
6. thereabouts sworne and exámined.
7. To the first article hee saith hee well knowne (sic) the arlate wharfe and banccks
8. theise twenty yeeres last and well knoweth the producent Mary Ewen, who is
9. nowe imployer and commonly accounted owner of them, hat and hath soe bin ever
10. since her husbands death which happened betweene seaven and eighteene yeeres since, or
11. thereabouts.
12. To the second hee saith ............................... the arlate Richard Prior whoe
13. was and is a low waterman by common repute, but this deponent doth not know
14. him, and other wise cannot depose saving what followeth.
15. To the third article hee saith that for five yeares last or thereabouts this deponent
16. living at Greenwich neere the wharfe arlate hath frewuently seene lighters
17. imployed neare unto the wharfe and bancks libellate of the said Mary Ewen
18. in taking up ballast, and in working and taking up of such ballast the
19. persons imployed theren by digging have made diverse and sundrie greate
20. pits or holes, neere the shore and wharfe and bancks aforesaid, some of
21. which pits or holes were and are foure foote deep at the least, which hee knoweth
22. because hee this deponent hath measured severall of them, and dound them soe
23. deep, and that within eight rodds of the said wharfe and bancks. And saith
24. there are diverse and sundry hills raised betweene the said pitts or holes by
25. reason of such digging and taking up gravell or ballast, for that by meanes
26. of the said hills, it is dangerous for shipps, boates and other vessells to passe,
27. and come neere the said wharfe, but that any lighter or lighters of the said
28. Prior wrought or were imployed in taking up gravell there or not, hee saith hee
29. doth not know, saving that about three monethes sinse there being an arrest
30. laid upon a lighter there, the said Prior claimed the same, and as this deponent
31. hath heard bailed her, which lighter this deponent then sawe at worke in
32. taking up gravell in or about those holes neere the said wharfe and bancks.
33. To the fourth hee saith that by reason of the said digging or taking ip gravell
34. or ballast and making holes as aforesaid, the bancks of the said mris Ewen
35. her wharfe have broken and fallen or calved in and doe soe from time to
36. time, and would soone be quite spoiled and made uselesse, by reason of the
37. said taking up of ballast and making holes, if shee were not at the cost of
38. continual repaire thereof, as hee saith shee hath bin and is, having
39. daily (saving Sabbath and feaste dayes) three a foure men at worke in the said
40. repaire of those this deponents sight for two monethes together last, and
41. frequently before; and much boarding, timber and other materialls have
42. bin spent and imployed thereabout, and as the common report goeth, shee
43. the said Mary hath spent and laid out foure hundred pounds therein within
44. theise seaven yeares last, adn of this deponents knowledge shee spent
45. and hundred pounds thereabouts this last yeere, ................. most of which cost
46. and charge hath bin occasioned by reason of the said working of lighters and
47. taking up ballast as aforesaid neare the same, andmaking the said pitts
48. and holes, all which hee knoweth living neare the same and taking notice of
49. the premisses.
50. To the fifth hee cannot depose.
51. To the 6th hee refereth himselfe to the Registrie of the Court.
52. <margin value="Bottom right, under main body of text, as lead to next page">To</margin>
</document-end>

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