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Transcription

To the second article of the sayd allegation hee saith that upon or about
the first of May 1655 the sayd Vessell returned from Zant and Cadiz
arlate laden with Currance and Verina Tobaccoe and being come into
the River of Thames neere Lymehouse the sayd Woodfin and Company
(the tyde of ffloud being spent that they could not carrie their sayd vessell any higher
up the River) endeavoured to bring her to the lower chayne at Lymehouse there till
lowe water, the sayd Woodfin caused a hawser to be fastned to
the Cable or the boltsprit (but which of them hee remembreth not) of the ffrancis and Mary arlate (as shipp who lay fastned to the
sayd chayne) the premisses hee deposeth being Quarter Master of, and aboard the Exeter Merchant when they soe happened And hee saith hee hath observed during all the tyme
that hee hath bin a seaman, (which hath bin for these twenty sixe or twenty
eight yeares last past) it hath bin a usuall Custome that any shipps
comming into the River of Thames laden may and doe ususally for better preservation
of them and their ladeing fasten to and upon an other shipp there either moored,
or rideing by the chayne, for the space of one tyde, And further saving
his subsequent deposition hee cannot depose/

To the third article of the sayd allegation hee saith that the sayd Woodfin
having caused a hawser to be fastned either to the boltspritt or
Cable of the ffrancis and Mary did cause his shipps company to heave the shipp
Exeter Merchant up to the Midshipp of the ffrancis and Mary
entending to fasten an other hawser to some other part of the sayd
shipp ffrancis and Mary, but the arlate Smith the Master of her would
not suffer the sayd Woodfin and Company soe to doe, but in a violent
and willfull manner contrary to the usuall custome in such cases frequent
and observed upon the River of Thames did cause the sayd hauser which was
fastned as aforesayd either to the Cable or boltspritt of his shipp the ffrancis
and Mary after it had bin soe fastned a quarter of an hower and better to be cutt by one of his shipps company, and thereby turned
the Exeter Merchant with all her ladeing on drifte to the hazard of the losse
of her and it, and danger of other shipps and their goods who laye neere thereunto
The premisses hee deposeth for the reasons aforesayd being an eye witnes And further saving his subsequent deposition hee cannot depose/

To the 4th article of the sayd allegation hee saith that the Exeter Merchant
her hawser being soe wilfully cutt by meanes of the sayd Smith and his
Company and shee turned a drifte, and the tyde of ebb then running stronge,
the sayd Woodfin and Company presently vered their Cable and let fall an Anchor
to stay their shipp the Exeter Merchant, and used their utmost diligence to prevent
her from receiving any damage and from damnifying any other shipps neere
her, which notwithstanding the force of the tyde was such that it carried her
fowle of the Boltspritt of the Pilgrim arlate, who ridd a sterne of her, and
by that meanes the Quarter of the Exeter Marchant was broken downe
by the Boltspritt of the Pilgrim, and the aunchient staffe of the Exeter Marchant
broken and lost, and shee, and the Pilgrim and a Collier that lay on board the Pilgrim
was by force of the tyde runne on ground the premisses hee deposeth for the reasons aforesayd And further hee cannot depose/