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To the 5th hee saith, That by reason of the said wilfulnes or
neglect and the soe veering of the said lighter and breaking the
hawsor and putting the said lighter with the wynes adrift, one of the said
pipes of wyne was staved and utterly lost whereby the said Travers was
and is in this deponents judgment and estimation really damnified to the valew
of thirtie pounds at least of lawfull English money, a pipe of such
wine being then really worth and usually sold amongst Merchants at that
rate; The premisses hee knwingly deposeth, being an Eye wittnesse
thereof and a Cooper by trade, and soe knowing the valewes of wynes

To the 6th hee saith, That the dammage aforesaid was wholely and
solely occasioned by the meanes predeposed:-

To the last hee saith, his foregoeing deposition is true:/

ffrancis Gythens [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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The sam day Examined upon the said Libell:-

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John Bonnett of Philpott Lane in London Cooper
aged 28. yeares or thereabouts a Wittnesse sworne and
examined saith as followeth videlicet

To the first and 2d hee saith, That in the moneth of January last past this
deponent was aboard a Lighter whereof one Tailor was Master having
severall oioes of spanish wines aboard her, which as this deponent then understood by
his precontest and others then aboard were the proper goods of the arlate Mr Giles
Travers, and saith the said Lighter with wines then lay well and
sufficiently moored in a convenient place at Buttolphs wharfe where
lighters usually lye to bee unladen, and that shee continued there in safety
from about 10. of the Click in the nught till about 5. or 6. of the
Clock in the morning avout which time the disaster hereafter deduced
did happen, this deponent being then aboard her And futhrer saving his
subsequent deposition hee cannot depose:-/

To the third hee saith, That hee this deponent at the time aforesaid being
employed upon another lighter which then lay neere the said Tailors lighter
with the said wine, there being then a fire aboard her where hee went
to warme himselfe, and there continued till about five or 6. of the Clock
in the morning, at or about which time another lighter belonging to one
Mr Pomroy of the burthen of about 80. or 100. tonnes and lyeing a head the said Lighter wherein the spanish wynes
were, and carelessly veering with a strong tide of Ebbe, this deponents
precontest and abother Cooper from aboard the said Tailors Lighter did
severall times and earnestly call and crye out to the said Pomroy or Company
aboard his said Lighter to bee carefull in their Veering, for that if they
were not but Veered upon the said Tailors lighter they would breake the
halsor and very myuch endeanger or damnify the Lading of Spanish wines
which shee had aboard her or words to the like effect, Which this