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To the first article of the said allegatio … To the first article of the said allegation this deponent saith and<br />
deposeth that the shipp ''dove'' whereof Walter Cable was and is<br />
master in her voyage which shee made about the beginninge of<br />
August last from the River of Thames to Newcastle did not<br />
touch fall foule with or come near any shipp or vessell whatsoeever<br />
neither did shee in her passage through the Well nor untill shee<br />
came to Newcastle touch any shipp nor vessell whatsoeever, which this<br />
deponent knoweth being one of the company of the said shipp ''Dove''<br />
and being on board her all the said voyage, and knoweing that noe<br />
such dammage or disaster as is in this cause pretended could bee done<br />
But this deponent must needs have knowne it. And further cannot depose.
To the second article of the sayd allegation this deponent saith and deposeth<br />
that in or about August and dureing the ''Doves'' aboad at the Scheilds<br />
the voyage in question this deponent saw aboate come to the ''doves'' side<br />
and enquired for William Robinson the Masters boy, and told him in<br />
this deponents heareing that there was a kinsman of his on shoare<br />
that had brought cloathes for him from his mother, or words to that<br />
effect wherefor the said Robinson went willingly a shoare with them, But<br />
when hee came a shoare (as hee afterwards related the same to this deponent<br />
and the rest of the shipps company) the Master of the ''Successe''<br />
arlate did [?Xamper] with the said Robinson to have him say that the ''dove''<br />
was the shipp that over runn the ''Successe'', or to that effect, and gave<br />
him drinke and sett meat before him: and further to this article hee cannot depose./
To the third article of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth that<br />
when the shipp ''Dove'' arlate lay in the River of Newcastle the master did hire two<br />
Caarpenters besides his owne to search for a leake that was in her<br />
and they found a peece of her head rotten, which because it<br />
was rotten and not by reason of her knockinge against any other shipp or vessell<br />
they cut it out, and put in a new peece, which this deponent knoweth<br />
being present and knoweing and seeing the premisses, and further cannot<br />
depose./
To the fourth article of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth<br />
that hee never heard any of the Company of the say or confesse<br />
that they pretended dammage to the ''Successe'' was done, by the said shipp ''dove''<br />
andby the said shipp ''dove''<br />
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