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and he saith that accordingly he this depo … and he saith that accordingly he this deponent and<br />
the sayd Perryman did on or about the tenth day of<br />
January last past goe a board the sayd shipp, and<br />
that upon viewing the sayd shipps lading they did find<br />
that some of her lading had received damage, but<br />
he saith and deposeth that the said damage did come<br />
and happen unto the sayd goods by extremity of<br />
fowle weather, and not by the default or negligence of the sayd<br />
Page or any of the Shipps Company, nor of any<br />
insufficiency of the sayd shipp, and he saith that it<br />
did appeare unto this deponent that the weather she had<br />
mett with in her voyage arlate was soe foule that<br />
a longer of wines (though well stowed) had stashed<br />
almost two foote, And further hee cannot depose
To the rest he is not examined by order of the party<br />
producent./
Repeated before<br />
doctor Godolphin./.
Phillip Ewers [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 14th of October 1656.
[GUTTER X]opley and others against the ''ffreeman''}<br />
and against Phillips, delaval}<br />
Suckley Smith}
Exámined upon the allegation
'''Rp. .j.'''
'''Richard Cawcot''' of Aldborough in Suffolk Mariner<br />
aged 50 yeeres or thereabouts sworne and examined,
To the first article of the sayd allegation he deposeth and<br />
saith that he the deponent was one of the Company and aboard<br />
the Shipp the ''Mary'' arlate when the damage arlate was<br />
done unto her by the shipp the ''ffreeman'' arlate and that<br />
the place is calld Galliats reach (which is a little below<br />
Woolwich) where the sayd damage was done, and that the<br />
same is a spatious and broad place, and that he very well<br />
knoweth (by then being aboard her) that the ''Mary'' was comming<br />
up the River, and the ''ffreeman'' soe comming downe with the wind<br />
did call to the Company of the ''ffreeman'', and that the<br />
''Mary'' did endeavour all that she could to avoyde the ''ffreeman''<br />
and to that purpose the ''Mary'' did leave the Channell and<br />
turne her towards the South shoare, soe that there was roome<br />
enough for the ''ffreeman'' to have past by the ''Mary'' without<br />
doing or receiving any damage, if she had pleased, The<br />
premisses he deposeth because he was a board during the<br />
passages predeposed, the sayd shipp the ''Mary'' And<br />
further he cannot depose./
To the second article, that the arlate vessell the ''{M}ary''<br />
did goe as neare the shoare as possibly she could to avoyd<br />
the ''ffreeman'' ánd that she steerd her best course in all<br />
probability to have avoyded the ''ffreeman'', And that {not}withstanding<br />
allAnd that {not}withstanding<br />
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