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Judgeth her to bee about two hundred tonne … Judgeth her to bee about two hundred tonnes And saith the shipp ''Susan'' the<br />
tyme Interrogate lay in such a place where other shipps<br />
did and doe usually ride at Anchor./
To the third and 4th hee saith it was about three quarters fflood when the ''Warwell''<br />
came first to an Anchor at the palce where she was dammaged neere<br />
Wapping dock, And further saving her foregoeing deposition hee<br />
cannot answere/
To the 5th and 6th Interrogatories hee saith hee was on board the ''Warwell'' when the<br />
dammage in question happened, and was not on shoar, but continued<br />
on board her from the tyme of her first comming to an Anchor untill<br />
after the dammage in question was done, And further cannot answere/.
To the 8th hee saith hee did not heare of any of the Company of the ''Susan''<br />
Interrate speake ought to the effect Interrogate, and well knoweth that<br />
there was noe buoy to the Anchor of the ''Susan'' wherein the ''Warwell''<br />
bilged as aforesayd, either at the tyme the ''Warwell'' came first to<br />
an Anchor or at the tyme of findeing the sayd Anchor wherein<br />
shee bilged, this hee knoweth for the reasons in his foregoeing depoition<br />
declared And further cannot answere/
To the 9th hee saith that the sayd Robert Clarke the Master<br />
of the ''Warwell'' and this deponent and his Contests Marke Dawson and John<br />
Gallant and others having as aforesayd under runne the hawse of the<br />
''Susan'' and found it fastned to the ring of the Anchor whereon the ''Warwell''<br />
had bilged, they tookup the Anchor into their boate, the hawser being<br />
still fast to it, and brough it to the side of the ''Susan'', and asked her<br />
Company whether that were their Anchor whereto they replyed they did<br />
not know, and then the sayd Clarke holding the hawser in his hands<br />
asked them whether that were their hawser, wherto they answered<br />
yes, and thereupon the sayd Clarke caused the sayd Marke Dawson to unbend<br />
or lossen the sayd hawser from the sayd Anchor in sight of the ''Susans''<br />
Company, and that being done the ''Susans'' Company [?XXsed] the sayd<br />
hawser aboard their shipp and the sayd Clarke and his boates Crew carried<br />
the sayd Anchor aboard the ''Warwell'', and kept it there for some tyme to<br />
see whetehr the ''Susans'' Company would come to fetch it, but they not<br />
comming for the same, the sayd Clarke caused the same to bee carried<br />
ashoare into the yard of one Mr Waters in Wapping where (as hee<br />
beleeveth) it still remaynes And saith the sayd Anchor was in this deponents<br />
Judgment about three hundred weight and being broken as it was worth<br />
in this deponents Judgment about five shillings a hundred it being but to be valued<br />
after the price of old iron And further hee cannot answere/f old iron And further hee cannot answere/ +
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