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==HCA13/126==
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#redirect HCA 13/126
 
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//The 10:th day of July 1652//
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//Repeated before//
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//D:r ?Clerk one of//
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//the Judgesxr//
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//The personall answers of//
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//Thomas May made to the p:rmised//
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//posicons of an allegation given//
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//against him on the behalfe of//
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//?Savery as followeth//
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//To the first and second positions he answereth//
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//and beleiveth that hee this respondent had upon//
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//the day aclate (beinge the eighteenth day of//
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//December 1651) his lighter called the//
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//''Mayflower'' fast moored in the river of//
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//Thames neere lower Chalke wharfe about//
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//halfe a mile from Gravesend over a certayne//
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//racke that was there suncke in the said River//
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//for y:e weighing up of Ordinance and Iron//
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//out of the said Shippe or Rack which said//
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//lighter did (as hee beleiveth) lye neere two//
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//stones throwe from y:e Kentish side and soe//
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//farr from the Essex side that neere twenty//
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//Shipps on breast might in faire and good//
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//weather (as he beleeveth) have passed by//
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//without doinge or receivinge and damage//
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//and upon y:e Kentish side about foure Shipps//
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//might have passed on breast betweene y:e//
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//shoare and the said lighter the river beinge//
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//in that place (as he beleiveth) neere a mile//
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//in breadth and the bancks of y:e river in and//
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//about that place are soe absolutely steepe that//
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//there is noe shelvinge nor wast ground as hee//
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//hath observed and beleeveth and this respondent//
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//did generally imploy seaven or eight men to//
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//worke on board the said lighter for the weighing//
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//of the said Ordnance and Iron and one//
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//man constantly to bee and lye on board her//
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//or soe neere on shoare that hee might bee//
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//within sight of the said lighter and looke to//
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//the same, and this respondent beleiveth the//
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//said lighter did ride in such a place over the//
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//said Racke where Shipps did and might//
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//usually passe unlesse they were of very great//
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//burthen and the water lowe and they in//
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//regard of the said Sunck vessell or racke//
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//they could not passe without very great//
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//danger as he beleiveth and he beleiveth that//
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//at the tyme of the said Shippe y:e ''Mary''//
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//runne against the said lighter there was not//
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//any person on board, but those employed by this//
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//respondent were gone on shoare to a house very//
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//neere the place where the said lighter did lye//
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//where they had their dyet and, a good distance//
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//before the said Shippe came neere to the said//
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//lighter some of the said persons employed upon y:e//
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//same did see the said Shippe and call to the//
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//company thereof as he beleiveth wishinge//
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//them to take heed of the said lighter as hee//
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//beleeveth, yet notwithstandinge the company//
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//of the same out of carlesnesse or wilfulnesse//
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//as he beleiveth did ranne against the said//
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//lighter & broake her from her Mooringes//
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//though there was roome for twenty Shipps//
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//as aforesaid to have gon on the one side//
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//& foure on the other all on breast//
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//without doinge or receivinge any damage//
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//as he beleeveth and did carry her away at//
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//least two or three miles as hee beleiveth by//
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//w:ch this repdent was very much damnified as//
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//he beleiveth and otherwise he doth not beleeive the//
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//said posicon to bee true in any parte//
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Latest revision as of 10:17, May 7, 2012

  1. redirect HCA 13/126