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Transcription

To the 5th article of the sayd allegation hee saith that the reparation of
the quarter of the Exeter Merchant and other things broken about her
by reason of her hawser being cutt as aforesayd, and the new mooreing of
her, did cost her Owners (as hee beleeveth) a very considerable summe
of money, but how much hee certainely knoweth not for that hee sawe not
the money paid but beleeveth it could not amount to lesse then thirty
pounds sterling And further hee cannot depose./

To the 6th hee saith hee referreth himselfe to the Registry of this Court
and further cannot depose./

To the 7th hee saith hee well knoweth that what damage is happened to the
Exeter Merchant and her goods, or to the Pilgrim and her goods, soe happened by the
wilfullnes and carelessenes of the arlate Thomas Smith and his Company,
and by their cutting loose of the Exeter Merchants hawser as aforesayd and
turning her on drifte, And hee saith hee is well assured that if the sayd Smith
had not caused some of his Company to cut the sayd hawser the damage
predeposed of had not happened, And further hee cannot depose./

To 8th hee saith hee referreth himselfe to the Registry of this Court and
further cannot depose./

To last hee saith his foregoeing deposition us true./

To the Crosse Interrogatories./

d: ffrancklin/

To the first Interrogatorie hee saith hee was Quartermaster of the Exeter Merchant
at the tyme Interrogate./

To the second and third Interrogatories hee saith hee was present and aboard the Exeter
Merchant at the tyme Interrogate and saith the premisses by him predeposed of in his deposition
to the second third and 4th articles of the allegation were soe done in the afternoone of
the day (the tyme more certainely hee doth not now remember) and that there were
present besides the company of the Exeter Merchant one Merrit a waterman then alsoe
on board the Exeter Merchant, and others whose names hee remembreth not,
And hee saith that hee is about 42 yeares of age, and hath bin a Mariner these
sixe or eight and twenty yeares last past, and hath knowne and observed the
Customes by him predeposed of to be used during all or the most part of that tyme And
further hee cannot answere./

To the 4th hee saith the shipp ffrancis and Mary did at the tyme Interrogate
lye at the lower chayne at Lymehouse outward bound, but was not then in the
acte of receaving goods on board her, and saith hee heard some of the Company
of the ffrancis and Mary saye that they had goods to come on board, and withall well
remembreth that the sayd Woodfin and some of his company thereto replyed and
sayd thus or the like in effect that they would not hinder them the Company
of the ffrancis and Mary from takeing in any goods, but would vere a sterne,
or hale to the other side of their shipp, or doe any thing that was fitt, soe they
might but fasten to the ffrancis and Mary till they could fasten their
shipp Exeter Merchant to the chayne aforesayd, this hee knoweth being aboard
the Exeter Merchant and hearing those or the like words uttered and spoken And
further hee cannot absweare./

To the 5th Interrogatorie hee saith that hee knoweth that it is a usuall thing for
shipps