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Transcription

Master nor company who hee well knoweth laboured hard
and did their true endeavour to preserve the sayd shipp and her ladeing
from hurt and to secure their owne lives which were all in great
danger by the stormes and casualtyes aforesayd and further
hee cannot depose

To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true/

Repeated with his contesth before
doctor Godolphin

The marke of the sayd
John I Mitchells [MARKE, RH SIDE]

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The 13th day of April 1657/ [CENTRE HEADING]

Examined upon the libell on behalfe of Matson

Matson against Naylor}

Rp. 5

John Comin of Wapping Wall in the parish of Stepney
Shipwright aged twenty five yeares or thereabouts a
wittnesse sworne and examined saith and deposeth as
followeth videlicet./

To the first second third fowerth fifth and 6th articles of the sayd
libell hee saith that hee this deponent is by trade a shipp Carpenter
and was spoken unto by the articulate Matson in the moneth of May one
thousand sixe hundred fifty sixe to goe to view and repayre the lighter
articulate called the Ellen and Anne (whereof the sayd Elizabeth Matson was
then and still is accompted lawfull Owner) of some hurt which as this deponent hath credibly heard and beleeveth shee had receaved
a little before in the sayd moneth of May 1656 by a shipp running fowle
of her in the River of Thames neere New Crane And hee saith upon his
this deponents viewing the sayd Lighter hee and other Carpenters who alsoe
helped to view her did finde that shee was very much bruised and crushed
both in her outwards and inward workes and diverse of her futtocks and
navel tymbers broken downe which and other the hurt done unto
her this deponent helped to repayre and amend soe well as they could
bee amended and hee saith that what the sayd repayres cost hee knoweth
not but saith hee well knew the sayd lighter before shee was soe dammaged
and knoweth before that dammage happened to her shee was a new lighter
built not above two or three yeares before and was a stanch and strong
vessell and saith that by reason of the hurt shee receaved by the shipp falling
fowle of her, the sayd lighter (not withstanding her hurts were repayred
yet was worse to be sold by five pounds sterling at the least then shee
was a little before the dammage aforesayd happened the premisses
hee deposeth for the reasons aforesayd

To the rest hee is not examined by direction./

To the Interrogatories/ [CENTRE HEADING]

To the first interrogatorie he saith hee cometh to testifie the truth of his
knowledge in this cause at the request of the producent and hath
receaved nothing nor expected any thing for his testimony, and was not
of