HCA 13/63 f.26r Annotate

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Ad 3um rendet affirmative/.

Ad 4um rendet that he did never see the order interrogated nor
deoeth hee knowe in whose custody the same is or lately
was, Et alr referende se ad predepoita nescit

Ad 5um rendet that it is usaull for Masters and Marriners
to doe as is interrate but saith that it is not usuall nor
hath hee ever knowne any laden ship come to bee
haled ashore at dickshoare Et alr refer da se ad predepoita
nescit rendere.

Ad 6um rendet that this rendent and his precontest James
Merrit did see the shippe the Saint Jacob interrogated imediatly
after she had runne ashore att dickshoare and was abord
of her side thence, which hee saith was at the first
tyde pf Ebb after her comeing thither, and staid there till after the water
was fallen some 3 or 4. foote from the same. Et alr
refrendo se ad predepoita nescit rendere

signmum
Jacobi [MARKE] Symmes [MARKE, RH SIDE]

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die pred. [CENTRE HEADING]

Super allegationis pred examinatus./

3

Robertus Dennis de Lymehouse parochia de
Stepney Aquarius aetais 33. annorum aut
do circiter testis productus et iuratus.

Ad 1. 2. 3um et 4um arlos dicte allegationis deponit et dicit
that this deponent being a Water Man and useing
to plye at Dickshore arlate was there att such tyme as
the shippe the Saint Jacob arlate (whereof the arlate Hance
Claeson was said to be Master) at the tyme arlate as he remembreth
and saith hee did then and there see the said shippe
the Saint Jacob through the neglect and unskilfullnes of
her Company then on bord her runne ashoare at Cuckolds
Pointe arlate. And saith that hee veryly beleeveth the said ship
did then and thereby susteine damage and hurte Et
ulteris deponit that in case the said shippe did
afterwards susteyne any further damage at Dickshoare
arlate the same as hee saith hee is certaine did soe happen
unto her by reason of the neglect and unskillfullnes of
the said Saint Jacobs Company and not by deafult of the arlate
Mr Husset or his ship the {hillip arlate. The premisses
hee deposeth and knoweth to bee true because hee this deponent
was as aforesaid present at dickshore and sawe the said
ship the Saint Jacob soe runne ashore at Cuckolds Point and
afterwards come ashore on the Northshore at dickshore aforesaid
Et alr nescit deponere saveing that it is and hath been accompted
as

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Cuckold's Point

Samuel Scott, A Morning with a View of Cuckold's Point, c.1750-60

- "...the picture includes a view of Cuckold's Point, situated at a sharp bend in the river on the south bank of the Thames, close by the church of St Mary's, Rotherhithe. The wholesale reconfiguration of the Thames riverfront and the lack of comparative visual material of the period, mean that the identification of the present view as the picture sold by Scott in 1765 is not entirely secure. However, the cool grey light in the picture does indicate that this is a morning scene. In addition Scott has included, towards the right, just by the stairs leading to the river, a large post surmounted by a pair of horns. The post marked the site of Horn Fair, established in the Middle Ages, according to local folklore, by King John (1167?-1216) to compensate a local miller whose wife he had seduced. Horns were, of course, the traditional symbol of a cuckold...."[1]
  1. Jump up [Text by Martin Postle (2001) accompanying image on Tate Britain website http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/scott-a-morning-with-a-view-of-cuckolds-point-n05450/text-summary]