Thames lighters - Revision history

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 ===Elizabeth Matson, owner of the lighter the Ellen and Anne===
-Oliver Langdon was a thirty-eight year old deal merchant from Wapping Wall.  He testified in the case of ''Matson against Naylor'' that he had known Elizabeth Matson, the owner of the lighter the Ellen and Anne for the last ten years, and that he also knew the lighter, having bought ballast from Elizabeth Matson and had it shipped in her lighter.
+Oliver Langdon was a thirty-eight year old deal merchant from Wapping Wall.  He testified in the case of ''Matson against Naylor'' that he had known Elizabeth Matson, the owner of the lighter the Ellen and Anne for the last ten years, and that he also knew the lighter, having bought ballast from Elizabeth Matson and had it shipped in her lighter. He signed his answers to the articles of the allegation with his marke, as he did the two interrogatories.
 Langdon was an eye witness to the incompetence of the crew of a Thames hoy, which was upstream of the lighter the Ellen and Anne. The lighter lay moored to the Mary of Ipswich near New Crane, Wapping, where it was taking on ballast.

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	Seeing the hoy bearing down on them the crew of both the Ellen and Anen and of the Mary cried out to the crew of the hoy to lower their sail. The hoy ignored them and the result was catastrophic. "The said hoy ran with her bough upon the said lighter, and broke her side downe, (soe that the said side lay under water) and brake her inward and outward workes, and crushed her in peeces."		Seeing the hoy bearing down on them the crew of both the Ellen and Anen and of the Mary cried out to the crew of the hoy to lower their sail. The hoy ignored them and the result was catastrophic. "The said hoy ran with her bough upon the said lighter, and broke her side downe, (soe that the said side lay under water) and brake her inward and outward workes, and crushed her in peeces."
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		+	The labourers on the lighter fought to preserve the lighter from sinking. They heaved out the remaining ballast, whilst standing up to their knees in water, seeking to keep her afloat and to get her to shore. Langdon assured the court that the lighter had been strong and staunch before the collision, and provided additional details to the court: there had been other ships in the Thames, but none near enough to the hoy toe explain the incident. Furthermore, it had been an ebb tide.

	''Note'': Deals were frequently specified in cargos of assorted timber brought to London from various ports around what we now term the Baltic, as well as from Norwegian ports on the North Sea.		''Note'': Deals were frequently specified in cargos of assorted timber brought to London from various ports around what we now term the Baltic, as well as from Norwegian ports on the North Sea.

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 . of the Mary leaped into the said lighter, and with their backs helped
 . to beare off and cleare away the said hoy, which if they had not
-. speedily^"
+. speedily"
 - ''HCA 13/71 f.454v Case: Matson against Naylor; Deposition: 1. Oliver Langdon of Wapping Wall Deale Merchant aged 38 yeares (The marke of Oliver Langdon at the end of the deposition) Date: 12/12/1656''<ref>[http://marinelives-transcript.org/scripto/scripto/?scripto_action=transcribe&scripto_doc_id=909&scripto_doc_page_id=1016 HCA 13/71 f.454v]</ref>
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 ===Lighter delivering Copperis to a fully laden ship at Wapping Stayers===

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 - ''HCA 13/71 f.454v Case: Matson against Naylor; Deposition: 1. Oliver Langdon of Wapping Wall Deale Merchant aged 38 yeares (The marke of Oliver Langdon at the end of the deposition) Date: 12/12/1656''<ref>[http://marinelives-transcript.org/scripto/scripto/?scripto_action=transcribe&scripto_doc_id=909&scripto_doc_page_id=1016 HCA 13/71 f.454v]</ref>
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-===Lighter delivering Copperis to fully laded ship at Wapping Stayers===
+===Lighter delivering Copperis to a fully laden ship at Wapping Stayers===
 '''Lighter delivered twelve hogsheads of Copperis to fully laded ship'''
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 - ''HCA 13/71 f.265r Case: Tether against Bryan "Examined upon the allegation on behalfe of the sayd Bryan"); Deposition: 4. William Evans of Newcastle upon Tine in the County of Northumberland Mariner Carpenter of the shipp the Julian aged sixtie yeares and upwards; Date: 26/06/1656. Transcribed by Colin Greenstreet''<ref>[http://marinelives-transcript.org/scripto/scripto/?scripto_action=transcribe&scripto_doc_id=743&scripto_doc_page_id=739 HCA 13/71 f.265r]</ref>
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-===Repair of a lighter in wharf at Horsey Down, Surrey===
+===Repair of a rotten lighter in wharf at Horsey Down, Surrey===
 The twenty-four year old shipwright Isaac Mayers was from Horsey Downe, Surrey. He testified in the Admiralty Court that the Thames lighter the William and ffrance "was and stoode in greate neede of reparation" in November 1654.

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 ''Note'': Deals were frequently specified in cargos of assorted timber brought to London from various ports around what we now term the Baltic, as well as from Norwegian ports on the North Sea.
-* "6. Oliver Langdon of Wapping Wall Deale Merchant
+* "6. '''Oliver Langdon''' of Wapping Wall Deale Merchant
 . aged 38 yeeres or thereabouts sworne and exámined.
 . To the first article of the said libell hee saith and deposeth that

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 . times repeated their crie and calling out to the said hoy, howbeit
 . hee saith the said hoyes company neglecting to take care therein,
-. the said hoy ran with her bough upon the said lighter, and broke and
+. the said hoy ran with her bough upon the said lighter, and broke
-. of her side downe, (soe that the said side lay under water) and brake
+. her side downe, (soe that the said side lay under water) and brake
 . her inward and outward workes, and crushed her in peeces, all
 . which hee knoweth for that this deponent was casual{l}y rowing

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 . lay moored unto her, cried or called aloud out to the company of
 . the said hoy to lore their sailes, and keepe off, telling them
-. that otherwise they would slit the said lighter, and that severall
+. that otherwise they would split the said lighter, and that severall
 . times repeated their crie and calling out to the said hoy, howbeit
 . hee saith the said hoyes company neglecting to take care therein,

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 ==Examples of Thames lighters==
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 ===Lighter delivering Copperis to fully laded ship at Wapping Stayers===
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 - ''HCA 13/71 f.15v Case: Mayor (?Mayer) and the William and ffrance and against knight; Deposition: 1. Isaac Mayers of horsey downe shipwright aged 24 yeeres; Date: XXXX. Transcribed by 04/03/1655(56)''<ref>[http://marinelives-transcript.org/scripto/scripto/?scripto_action=transcribe&scripto_doc_id=797&scripto_doc_page_id=1766 HCA 13/71 f.15v]</ref>
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 ==Examples of Thames hoys==