HCA 13/71 f.367v Annotate

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To the Interrogatories [CENTRE HEADING]

To the first Interrogatory he answereth that he cometh
to bee now a wittnes at the procurement of Robert
Yaxley one of the producents, and that the damage interrate
was done a bout noone, and that he was then upon the
decke of the Mary, And to the rest he hath satisfied [XXX GUTTER]

To the second Interrogatory he answereth that the shipp the
Mary her rigging was as good as new, and that it was
allmost all cutt and spoylt, and that but a very little
of all the shipps rigging was or could be made use of
againe And otherwise he knoweth not to answere./

The marke of
Samuel X Browne [MARKE, RH SIDE]

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On the same day. [CENTRE HEADING]

Rp. 3

Edward knights of Alborough in the County of
Suffolke Shippwright aged about 28 yeares
a wittnes produced and sworne and being examined
deposeth as followeth./

To the first and second articles he deposeth and saith that
he the deponent chanced to be in a shipp named the [?Ro??se GUTTER]
of Alborough in Galliards reach nigh Woolwich when
the damage arlate happened to the Mary arlate, and he saith
that the sayd Galliards reach is a very spatious and broad
place and that by his then being in the sayd reach he
did see the arlate shipp the Mary steering towards the
South shore and coming up the River, and that the shipp
the ffreeman was going downe with the wind, and that
the Mary to avoyde the ffreeman had left all the
channell and steerd as nigh the shore as possibly [?shee GUTTER]
could with safety, and that this was soone enough
the shipp the ffreeman and more shipps to have passed GUTTER]
by the Mary without doing any damage, if shee had
pleased, And he saith that it cannot be iudged in reason
that there was any thing in it, but willfullnes in the
ffreemans Company in the ffreemans falling foule of
the sayd Mary, And he saith that being a Neighbour [of GUTTER]
Robert Yaxley one of the producents he went aboard [the GUTTER]
arlate shipp the Mary after she was damaged, and [XXX GUTTER]
find that her Mast was broke in three peices and her
shrowdes and sayles torne and spoylt, and the side of
the shipp broke downe allmost to the water, And
further he cannot depose saving that there were [?severall GUTTER]
shipps in the sayd reach when the Mary was damaged
and that they did all cry out upon and blame the
shipp the ffreeman for what she had done./

To the third and fourth articles he cannot depose.

To the Interrogatories [CENTRE HEADING]

To the fifth Interrogatory he answereth that he commeth to be GUTTER]
a wittnes by the meanes of Robert Yaxley the producent
and that he was none of the Marys Company interrate
the time interrate And otherwise he cannot answere

To the last Interrogatory he answereth that he being [?not GUTTER]
of the shipp interrate her Company he knoweth not [XXX GUTTER]
her rigging or things were And further he knoweth not [XXX GUTTER]

Edward [?knights GUTTER] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

Repeated with his two precontests before the
two Judges in Court.