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8th ffebruary 1636.
'''Samuel … [ADD DATA]
8th ffebruary 1636.
'''Samuell Jourdayne''' of the parish+ of Saint Olave in Southwarke Joyner aged about<br />
55 yeares sworne before the worshipfull Joseph Martyn doctor of Lawes Surrogate<br />
to the right worshipfull Sir Henry Marten knighte Judge of his Mayestyes high<br />
Court of the Admiraltye and afterwards examined<br />
on certayne Interrogatoryes sayeth and deposeth therunto as followeth videlicet
To the first Interrogatory hesayeth That uppon the seaventeenth day of August 1636<br />
last past righte over against<br />
fferryes his wharfe in the river of Thames fourtye yards and upwards<br />
above London bridge, there was putt aboard the boate or engine in<br />
question<br />
a cetayne quantitye of gravell<br />
or sande; but this deponent at the tyme that the wager in question was sayd<br />
to be winn) did not see the sayd gravell or sande weighed, but<br />
there were a great many spectators at that tyme (who as they sayd)<br />
saw the weighinge therof, and by their generall report, there was above<br />
five tonns and a halfe of gravell or sand putt into her, reckoninge twenty hundredw<br />
weighte to every tonne, but this deponent sawe and tooke notice of the place<br />
where the sayd boate or engene then laye when she tooke in the sayd<br />
gravell, because he dailye worketh at the bridge house beinge imployed by<br />
the Cittye to carrye timber for the mendinge of the bridge and to sett the<br />
workemen to worke and hath sene it measured by a lyne from thence to the sayd bridge/ And he verilye beleiveth that the tyme in question there<br />
were above five tonns of greavell abord the sayd boate, for that at divers<br />
other tymes he hath seene and taken notice of the weight of the gravell putt into her above<br />
five tonnes of greavell, and there did but halfe a shovell of<br />
gravell fall out of the basketts wherein it was weighed after the weighinge<br />
and puttinge thereof abord the sayd boat or engine, the sayd Mr Busmer<br />
would commannd and cause his men to putt in a shovell full of gravell for it,<br />
And further he cannot depose/
To the second he sayeth, That teh tyme in question when the sayd wager was<br />
wonne videlicet the seaventeenth day of August last aforesayd<br />
none of the sayd gravell was taken out of or fell of it selfe out of her in cominge<br />
from the place where she tooke in the sayd gravell untill she went<br />
through the bridge Eastward about fiftye yards<br />
then she lett fall all the gravell which was in one position or houlde of her<br />
the sayd boate returned westward through the bridge and went up to the place<br />
where she tooke in her ladinge videlicet above fourtye yards westward above the sayd bridge and three discharged the rest of her ladinge<br />
and did not lett fall any parte of her ladinge neither was there any part therof<br />
taken out of her in her returne to the place aforesayd./ The premisses he knoweth<br />
to be true for that he this deponent understandinge that the sayd boate or<br />
Engine that the sayd boate or<br />
Engine +
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