HCA 13/70 f.498v Annotate
Volume | HCA 13/70 |
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Folio | 498 |
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receaved there was a but of oyle (saved at the first pumping
after the Pilgrims being runne on ground) which was alsoe saved in empty
casks in the shipp, and
saith there was care used to save as much oyle as might be and further hee
cannot answere./
To the 6th
Tho: Blackman [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 27th of August 1655 [CENTRE HEADING]
hatton and Company Owners of the Exeter Merchant}
(Tho: Woodfin Master) against the ffrancis and Mary and Tho:}
Smith the Master thereof and against Beake and Company coming}
coming (sic) in for their Interest Suckley ffrancklin}
Examined an allegation on behalfe of the sayd Hatton
and Company
see the 3 first wut in C.3./
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Robert Dennis of Lymehouse in the parish of
Stepney waterman aged about 39 yeares a
witnes sworne and examined saith and deposeth as followeth
To the first article of the sayd allegation hee saith hee hath well knowne the
arlate Thomas Woodfin for these twelve yeares last past and saith, during his
knowledgew of him hee hath bin comonly reputed an able seaman, and saith
hee hath bin commonly reputed Master of the Exeter Merchant arlate during eight yeares
of that tyme And further to this article hee cannot depose
To the second article of the said allegation hee saith hee knoweth well
the shipp the Exeter Merchant came laden
unto the Lower chayne at Lymehouse in or about the moneth of May last the
tyme more certainly hee doth not now remember and saith at her
commeing thither the arlate shipp the ffrancis and Mary laye fastned to the
sayd chayne with a Cable, and the sayd Woodfins company or some of them (hee not being aboard) desyred the
arlate Smith that they might (according as the usuall Custome is for shipps
that come laden in) fasten a hawser to the sayd shipp the ffrancis and
Mary and rest thereby for a tyde till they could come to fasten to the sayd
chayne but the sayd Smith told them the sayd Woodfins company hee had goods to come on board and that they should not make fast to his shipp refused to let them fasten thereto and threw off
the hawser they were about to fasten to her, which done the sayd Woodfin came
presently after from shoare in a wherry and went on board the ffrancis and
Mary this deponent seeing him soe doe and desyred (as this deponent hath heard) that the sayd Smith would (according as the usuall Custome is forladen shipps to doe) suffer him to fasten
a hawser to his the sayd Smiths cable and an other to his
boltspritt or some other parte of his shipp and to ride thereby till the tyde which was then neere upon high
water were abated that soe hee might fasten to the chayne when it was lowe
water