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and damage to their vessell the ''Rebecca' … and damage to their vessell the ''Rebecca'' comming with the tyde of<br />
ebb had bin to have kept in the midest of the River of Thames and in case they had received any damage or hurt by falling fowle of the ''Love'' as aforesayd [?best ?way] [#] And
[# LH MARGIN, AT 90 DEGREES]<br />
in this deponents Judgment<br />
had bin for to have<br />
present;y steered their<br />
shipp to shoare<br />
thereby they might have<br />
prevented damage from<br />
happening to their ladeing<br />
'''TB''' [MARKE]
further saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot depose./
To the last hee saith his foregpeing deposition is true/
Repeated before doctor Clarke/
his marke<br />
Tho '''TB''' [?Bomer] [MARKE, RH SIDE]
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The same day [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined upon teh sayd allegation
'''2'''
'''John Withers''' of Wapping in the parish of Stepney and County<br />
of Middlesex mariner aged 45 yeares or thereabouts a witnes<br />
sworne and examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet
To the first 2 and 3 articles hee saith that hee this deponent was one of the Company<br />
of the vessell the ''Love'' arlate now called the ''Mary'' (whereof the<br />
arlate Richard Thompson was and is Master) the tyme arlate and thereby<br />
knoweth that the sayd vessell the ''Love'' about two a clock in the morning<br />
on the 22th of June last past was coming up the River of Thames betwixt<br />
Blackwall and Greenwich against tyde (it then being ebbing water)<br />
and came as neere the shoare as conveniently shee could the better to<br />
avoide the forme of the ebb shee comming against tyde and very little winde being [?stirring] at least not enough to stemme the Ebb and saith at the same tyme<br />
the arlate Vessell the ''Rebecca'' came downe the sayd River with the<br />
tyde of Ebb and hee saith that the sayd Thompson observing that<br />
the ''Rebecca'' although shee came with tyde came neere the<br />
shoare and drew neere the vessell the ''Love'', called to the Master<br />
and Company of the ''Rebecca'' and asked them, where they would be with their<br />
sayd vessell, whereupon the Master of the ''Rebecca'' or some of his company<br />
spake to the sayd Thompson and first bidd him starboard his helme, and<br />
then imediately bid him port his helme, and the sayd Thompson<br />
being him slefe at the helme of the ''Love'', did first starrboard<br />
her, and afterwards port her as was desyre, and steered her as neere<br />
the shoare as possible hee could without running her aground which<br />
notwithstanding the sayd vessell the ''Rebecca'' continueing on her course<br />
fell fowle upon the sayd vessell the ''Love'' and soe fell off againe without<br />
soe much as touching the hull of the ''Love'' or receiving any<br />
hurt at all from her soe farr as this deponent being then aboard could<br />
or did observe, and this deponent beleeveth shee the sayd ''Rebecca''<br />
did not receive any hurt by her soe falling fowle on the ''Love'', for that<br />
hee well sawe and observed that by reason little winde was stirring shee<br />
the ''Rebecca'' came soe easily on board the ''Love'' that shee did not with her<br />
boltspritt teare the sayle or hurt the Mast of the ''Love'' or doe any other<br />
damage thereto which shee must needes have done if shee had fallen soe<br />
violently fowle on the ''Love'' as to receive any damage to her the ''Rebecca''<br />
from the vessell the ''Love'' And further to these articles hee cannot<br />
depose/
To the 4th hee cannot depose saving his foregoeing deposition/t depose saving his foregoeing deposition/ +
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