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Transcription

and saith hee was Carpenter of the ffreeman the tyme Interrate and saith it
was in the forenoone of the say and about three quarters fludd and better as he
remembreth when the Mary fell fowle of the ffreeman in manner predeposed and
hee saith one Appleby a quarter Master of her was at the helme of the
ffreeman when the Mary came fowle of her as aforesayd And further
hee cannot answere/

To the 2 hee saith hee is not as yet paid his wages for the voyage Interrate
but may receive the same when hee please all but thirty shillings which hee
beleeveth will be stopped out of the same when hee receaveth his wages, the like summe having
bin stopped out of the wages of others of the shipps Company. and saith the same
was stopped out of othes wage, and will be stopped out of his wages hee demandeth
his wages, for tobaccoe which is missing and appeareth by the boatswaines booke
was laded aboard the ffreeman And further hee cannot answere otherwise than
negatively haveing never heard of any such resolution or declaration as is
interrogate./

To the third hee saith this deponents contests Edward King and Robert holding
and others of the Company of the ffreeman did call out to the company
of the Mary in manner predeposed and saith the Mary was t a good
distance off but were to the leewards soe that they might easily heare what
was sayd unto them, but what answere they made hee knoweth not but well
knowing that they shaped their course with the Mary in manner predeposed,
although they had tyme sufficient to have stopped her and putt her astayes And further
hee cannot answere saveing hee saith the Mary by her soe running against the
ffreeman did receave damage and had her mayne mast broken by the board
with the bolspritt of the ffreeman but the value of the damage hee knoweth not/

Repeated before doctor Godolphin.

The marke of RO Robert Osborne [MARKE, RH SIDE]

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The same day [CENTRE HEADING]

Examined upon the sayd allegation./

d: Smith

7us.

Edward King of Lymehouse in the parish of Stepney and County
of Middlesex Mariner Boatswaine of the ffreeman aged 33
yeares or thereabouts a witnesse sworne and examined
saith as followeth videlicet./

To the first second and third articles of the sayd allegation hee saith that the shipp the
Mary was comming up the River of Thames with the benefitt of the tyde of ffludd
and the ffreeman goeing downe towards Gravesend with a smale gale of wind, and
saith that a little before the damage in controversie happened to the arlate shipp
the Mary the Company of the ffreeman (seeing the Mary make toward them
with the benefitt of fludd) called out to the Company of the Mary and desyred
them to keepe a loose and to put their shipp astayes and hee this deponent alsoe waved to them with his hatt and spake to them to [?XX XXX] and told them that if
they did not doe soe the shipp Mary would runne on board the ffreeman or else
put her a shoare or words to that effect which words hee verily beleeveth the
Company of the Mary very well heard and understood (they being then about three
score or fower score fathoms off) which notwithstanding theMaster and Company
of