HCA 13/70 f.573r Annotate
| Volume | HCA 13/70 |
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| Folio | 573 |
| Side | Recto |
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| First transcriber | |
| Colin Greenstreet | |
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| 2015/01/22 | |
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Shipps when they come home laden into the River of Thames to fasten to
other shipps lying in the river, for one tyde for the better preservation of them
and their ladeing, although the shipp they fasten to be outwards bound and have goods
to receive on board, soe that the shipp outward bound have not lighters, or
boates with goods then lying by her, and be in the act of receiving them on board, And
hee saith the sayd shipp soe returning home laden may for one tyde fasten
to an outward shipp without the goods will of the master and Company
of the outward bound shipp, and hee hath often within these twentie yeares
last past seene the same soe done, and hath him selfe often helped to fasten
shipps wherein hee returned home laden, to outward bound shipps, somtymes
with, and somtymes without the goo will of the Master and Company
of the shipp to whome hee soe fastned, and hee this respondent well remembreth
that after 10 yeares since in the moneth of July hee came from the Streights with a lading
in a shipp called the Little Lewis, and comming into the River of Thames neere
Ratcliffe Crosse Captaine Richard Ell the Commander of the sayd shipp
did cause his sayd shipp the Lewis to be fastned by this deponent and others of his company to an other shipp then
outward bound and there lying (whose name hee now remembreth not) for one tyde till they could come to fasten to
the chayne there, without the leave and good likeing of the Master or company of
the sayd outwards bound shipp, who quarreled with and reviled this deponent and the rest
of the sayd Lewis her Company for soe doeing, but did not offer to cut her hawsers
wherewith shee was fastned, well knowing (as this deponent beleeveth) that
it was a frequent Custome for laden shipps soe to doe, And
saith hee hath knowne the like done by one Captaine Wilkinson about three
yeares since at a chayne neare Lymehouse, and the like done by others
but the tymes or places and names of the shipps that did see her at present
cannot call to mynde, but well knoweth it is a Common custome soe
to doe And further hee cannot answere/
To the 6th hee saith that when the Exeter Merchant came toward the ffrancis
and Mary the Interrogate Smith the master of her or his company did call to the Master and
Company of the Exeter Merchant and tld them they had goods
to come aboard and therefore the Exeter Merchant must not come to hinder
them, or to that effect, whereto the sayd Woodfin and Company replyed
as in this rendents answere to the 4th Interrogatorie is expressed or to the like
effect and hee alsoe saith that Woodfin did goe on board the ffrancis
and Mary and after his being on board a hauser of the Exeter Marchant
was made fast to the bolsprit or to the Cable of the ffrancis and Mary.
but to which of them hee remembreth not, nor knoweth whether the same
were soe fastned by any of the Exeter Merchants company or by her Master or whether it were soe fastned contrary
to the good will of the Master and Company of the ffrancis and
Mary and further hee cannot answere./
