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Transcription

To the 10th hee saith if the tyde be soe farr spent as it was when the
Exeter Merchant came to the lower chayne at Lymehouse) it is in such
cases more frequent for laden shipps to fasten to other shipps which they
find moored or rideing by a chayne and [?tXXt] thereon and there to ride till the next
tyde, then it is for them the tyde being soe spent to endeavour to lye at an Anchor
of their owne And further to this Interrogatorie hee cannot answere.

To the 11th hee saith hee beleeveth if the damage Interrogate
were done through the want of judgment or through the carelessnesse and
default of the Master and Company of the Exeter Merchant hee the sayd Master
and his Company ought to beare their severall proportions thereof, and saith
hee beleeveth the Custome to bee soe that they by whose neglect
a damage comes ought to beare the damages, And saith hee this deponent
is none of the Company of the Exeter Merchant and therefore not lyable
to any part thereof by what meanes soe ever it came And further to
this Interrogatorie hee cannot answere/

To the 12th hee answereth negatively./

To the 13th hee saith hee hath bin on board the shipp Exeter Merchant since
the damage by him predeposed was repayred, and thereby knoweth the same
is repaired, and hath heard and beleeveth the same was repayred at the
charge of the Master and Owners of her, and saith hee sawe noe money
paid for the sayd repayres And further cannot answere/

To the 14th hee saith hee knoweth there have bin other repayres done to the
Exeter Merchant besides the repair of the damage by him this rendent
predeposed of, but what the same amount unto, or whether they be
distinguished from the repaires of the damage predeposed of hee knoweth
not for that hee hath not seene nor is privie to the Accompts touching the
same And therefore cannot further answere/

To the last hee saith hee hath satisfied the contents thereof in his foregoing
deposition./

Repeated before Doctor Godolphin

Robert Dennis [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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The 28th 0f August 1655 [CENTRE HEADING]

Examined upon the sayd allegation./

5us

James Merrit of Lymehouse in the parish of Stepney and
County of Middlesex Waterman aged 48 yeares or thereabouts
a witnesse sworne and examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicit

To the first article of the sayd allegation hee saith hee hath knowne the arlate
Thomas Woodfin for about these twenty yeares last past during all which tyme
hee saith hee hath bin commonly reputed an able and well experienced seaman, and hee
knoweth that hee hath gone Commander of the Exeter Merchant divers voyages
and knoweth hee hath had the care of shipps as Master of them committed
to him for these five or six yeares last past, this hee deposeth having bin a
Waterman for these 27 yeares and for a great part thereof hath bin a neere neighbour
to the