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To the second article of the sayd allegati … To the second article of the sayd allegation hee saith that upon or about<br />
the first of May 1655 the sayd Vessell returned from Zant and Cadiz<br />
arlate laden with Currance and Verina Tobaccoe and being come into<br />
the River of Thames neere Lymehouse the sayd Woodfin and Company<br />
(the tyde of ffloud being spent that they could not carrie their sayd vessell any higher<br />
up the River) endeavoured to bring her to the lower chayne at Lymehouse there till<br />
lowe water, the sayd Woodfin caused a hawser to be fastned to<br />
the Cable or the boltsprit (but which of them hee remembreth not) of the ''ffrancis and Mary'' arlate (as shipp who lay fastned to the<br />
sayd chayne) the premisses hee deposeth being Quarter Master of, and aboard the ''Exeter Merchant'' when they soe happened And hee saith hee hath observed during all the tyme<br />
that hee hath bin a seaman, (which hath bin for these twenty sixe or twenty<br />
eight yeares last past) it hath bin a usuall Custome that any shipps<br />
comming into the River of Thames laden may and doe ususally for better preservation<br />
of them and their ladeing fasten to and upon an other shipp there either moored,<br />
or rideing by the chayne, for the space of one tyde, And further saving<br />
his subsequent deposition hee cannot depose/
To the third article of the sayd allegation hee saith that the sayd Woodfin<br />
having caused a hawser to be fastned either to the boltspritt or<br />
Cable of the ''ffrancis and Mary'' did cause his shipps company to heave the shipp<br />
''Exeter Merchant'' up to the Midshipp of the ''ffrancis and Mary''<br />
entending to fasten an other hawser to some other part of the sayd<br />
shipp ''ffrancis and Mary'', but the arlate Smith the Master of her would<br />
not suffer the sayd Woodfin and Company soe to doe, but in a violent<br />
and willfull manner contrary to the usuall custome in such cases frequent<br />
and observed upon the River of Thames did cause the sayd hauser which was<br />
fastned as aforesayd either to the Cable or boltspritt of his shipp the ''ffrancis''<br />
''and Mary'' after it had bin soe fastned a quarter of an hower and better to be cutt by one of his shipps company, and thereby turned<br />
the ''Exeter Merchant'' with all her ladeing on drifte to the hazard of the losse<br />
of her and it, and danger of other shipps and their goods who laye neere thereunto<br />
The premisses hee deposeth for the reasons aforesayd being an eye witnes And further saving his subsequent deposition hee cannot depose/
To the 4th article of the sayd allegation hee saith that the ''Exeter Merchant''<br />
her hawser being soe wilfully cutt by meanes of the sayd Smith and his<br />
Company and shee turned a drifte, and the tyde of ebb then running stronge,<br />
the sayd Woodfin and Company presently vered their Cable and let fall an Anchor<br />
to stay their shipp the ''Exeter Merchant'', and used their utmost diligence to prevent<br />
her from receiving any damage and from damnifying any other shipps neere<br />
her, which notwithstanding the force of the tyde was such that it carried her<br />
fowle of the Boltspritt of the ''Pilgrim'' arlate, who ridd a sterne of her, and<br />
by that meanes the Quarter of the ''Exeter Marchant'' was broken downe<br />
by the Boltspritt of the ''Pilgrim'', and the aunchient staffe of the ''Exeter Marchant''<br />
broken and lost, and shee, and the ''Pilgrim'' and a Collier that lay on board the ''Pilgrim''<br />
was by force of the tyde runne on ground the premisses hee deposeth for the reasons aforesayd And further hee cannot depose/s aforesayd And further hee cannot depose/ +
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