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Transcription

To the third Interrogatorie hee saith hee this deponent and his Contests George
[?Putt] 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 about threescore or fowerscore fathoms distance from the ffreeman
when the ffreemans company soe called out to them and saith the Maryes
Company might if they had pleased easily have put their shipp a stayes
and saith when the shipp Mary came very neere the ffreeman, the ffreemans company
bidding them still keepe a loose, the Company of the Mary sayd they would
not make their shipp worke, whereby it appeared that they well heard what was
sayd to them at first when they were at further distance And further saving his
foregoeing deposition hee cannot depose./

Repeated before doctor Godolphin/

Edward king [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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The 26th day of September 1655/ [CENTRE HEADING]

George huntingdon and Company owners of}
the Shipp the William of Gainsburrow against}
the Shipp the Water hounde (whereof Nicholas
Constant is Master) and her tackle and furniture}
and against the sayd Nicholas Constant and company
coming in for their interest therein Cheeke Suckley}

Examined upon a libell given in on the part
and behalfe of the sayd George huntington
and Company./

1us

Thomas Reedman of Kingston upon Hull in the County of
Yorke Mariner aged forty nyne yeares or there
abouts a witnesse sworne and examined saith
and deposeth as followeth videlicet./

To the first article of the sayd libell hee saith tha in this present moneth of
September 1655 the arlate George huntington was and is Commonly accompted
to be the Master of the arlate shipp the William of Gainsburrowe and was soe of
this deponents knowledge before the tyme arlate, this hee the better knoweth for that
hee this deponent well knoweth the sayd George huntington and that hee was
Master of her about easter last and this deponent was then his pylott thereof And hee
saith the sayd huntington during the tyme arlate was and is commonly
accompted to be a part Owner of the sayd shipp And further to this article hee
cannot depose./

To the second article of the sayd libell hee saith that hee this deponent well
knoweth for that hee was at the same tyme pylott of and on board a shipp called
the Sarah of Gainsborrow lying at Tower Wharfe arlate that the sayd shipp
the William did on Tuesday the eighteenth of this instant September 1655
lye conveniently moored at Tower wharfe on the outside of two other shipps
then there lying moored whereof the sayd shipp the Sarah was one, and the sayd
shipp William laye in a convenient place where shipps use to lye moored And
hee saith hee hath used the sea as Pilott and Master of severall vessells for these
twenty yeares last and upwards and hath often in that tyme moored there with such
vessells as hee went in and thereby hath observed that it is not usuall for
shipps to lye there more then three a brest neither ought as hee beleeveth more
then three to lye a brest and saith the sayd shipp William was then the outermost
of three shipps there lyeing at the tyme arlate And further to this article hee
cannot depose/