HCA 13/72 f.267r Annotate

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save what is conteyned in his sayd house or wharfe. And further to this
article hee cannot depose/

To the second article of the sayd allegation hee saith that hee this deponent
being a servant and Apprentice to the sayd Jenkin Ellis hath severall tymes
since March one thousand sixe hundred fifty three heard the sayd Ellis in presence
of his this deponents Contest Robert Goulding speake to severall Masters
of vessells who came and layed their vessells at his the sayd Ellis his wharfe
and tell them that they must not and ought not to laye them there, for that hee had
receaved an order from the Judges of the Admiralty that noe shipps should
ride there above three abrest at one and the same tyme, and hath desyred
them to depart and yeild obedience to the sayd order, notwithstanding which
warneing they have refused to give obedience thereto and have contract
to the sayd Ellis his mynde and desyre layne there more than three abrest
and would not remove thence though desyred by the sayd Ellis soe to doe,
And in particuler hee remembreth that one [BLANK IN MANUSCRIPT] [XXXX] was one of those
which refused to depart from the sayd wharfe being soe desyred by
the sayd Ellis And further to this article hee cannot depose/

To the 3 article hee saith hee cannot depose/ being an Inhabitant as aforesayd

To the 4th article hee saith that soe farr as hee could and did observe being an Inhabitant as aforesayd there
hath not within the tyme arlate layne more vessells abrest at a tyme
before the sayd Ellis his wharfe then did before other wharfes betwixt
the bridge and Lymehouse And further to this article hee cannot depose/

To the last hee saith hee cannot depose./

Repeated before doctor Godolphin

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The same day []CENTRE HEADING]

Examined on the sayd allegation

Rp. 2

Robert Goulding of the parish of Saint Mary Matsellon
alias Whitechappell Cordwainer aged forty three yeares
or thereabouts a wittnesse sworne and examined
saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet./

To the first article of the sayd allegation hee saith hee hath knowne Saint
Catherines stayres and Saint Catherines dock for these two yeares and a halfe
last past or thereabouts and saith that in this deponents Judgment it is
at the least two hundred yards betweene the sayd stayeres and dock
And saith that for that hee wrought with the arlate Mr Ellis as a
Journeyman Shoemaker for three quarters of a yeare ended at Christmas
last and before that worked for about a yeare and better at the house of an
other shoemaker neere the sayd Ellis hee knoweth that the sayd Ellis
his wharfe conteynes not above seaven or eight yards or thereabouts
And soe farr as hee knoweth or hath heard space betweene the sayd Stayers and
dock save his owne wharfe and house And further to this
article hee cannot depose./

To the 2 article of the sayd allegation hee saith that in the yeare 1657
and while this deponent soe wrought at the house of the sayd Jenkin