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there came the allate Vessell the ''May-fl … there came the allate Vessell the ''May-flower'' whereof the allate Mr<br />
White was Commaunder and was by the said White and Companie<br />
moored and fastened to a Vessell whereof one Mr Walt was Commander<br />
and having for some daies ridd so moored or fastned the said Walt<br />
and Companie fetchd their Anchors aboard preparing to proceed upon<br />
their intended voyage, and being ready to depart the said Mr Walt<br />
in the hearing of this deponent and divers others did publiquely affirme, that<br />
the said shipp the ''May flower'' lay too nere the said shipp the ''Margaret'' and<br />
if Mr White did not take a care to moore and fasten her at a<br />
further distance, shee would doubtlesse come fowle of the ''Margaret''<br />
and this deponent saith, That the said William White or some of his<br />
Companie were severall times advertized thereof by the Company of the said shipp the<br />
''Margarett'' and particularly by this deponent but the said White and Company<br />
neglecting the said advertizement upon or about the 6th day of November<br />
<u>1653.</u> last past the said shipp the ''May fflower'' did really fall fowle of<br />
the said Vessell the ''Margaret'' and broke her boltspritt and did her<br />
some other dammage, and soone after the allate Robert ffoxe procured<br />
the said shipp the ''Margaret'' to be viewed by shipp Carpenters and caused<br />
a new boltspritt to be fitted for an putt into her to make her strong<br />
and sufficient for her then intended Voyage for Virginia, The<br />
premisses hee knoweth being as aforesaid Boateswaine of and belonging<br />
to the said shipp the ''Margaret'' at such time as the premisses happened<br />
and before and since. And further hee cannot depose:-/
To the 5th and 6th articles of the said Allegation hee saith and deposeth<br />
That about the later end of the said moneth of November <u>.1653</u><br />
last, the said new boltspritt being putt on the said vessell the ''Margaret''<br />
the aforesaid Vessell the ''May flower'' did the second time by the<br />
carlesnesse of the said White and Companie, and their neglect of<br />
mooring their said shipp at a convenient distance, come fowle againe<br />
upon the said shipp ''Margaret'', and came athwart her hawse, by<br />
which meanes the said new boltspritt was cracked, and rendred it<br />
unserviceable for the intended voyage, so that the said foxe and Company<br />
were constrained the best they could to repaire the same with [?f?XXXX]<br />
and roapes, so that with great danger and difficulty they accomplished<br />
their intended voyage to Virginia, and were there forced to putt<br />
in another new boltspritt, so that this deponent is in Conscience<br />
verily perswaded, that the said Benjamin Cranley and Companie<br />
(didamin Cranley and Companie<br />
(did +
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