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aboard her shee hath upon fowle weather severall tymes within the tyme
aforesayd broken loose from her mooreing and lost a Cable and an Anchor
and shee being a ranke keeled vessell being severall tymes by badd
weather broken loose hath bin by the same weather driven ashoare againe severall
tymes whereby shee was and is bery much wr[?u]nge and bruised in her
keele and damnified in other parts of her hull
soe that her Oakeham workes out of her seames
and shee ususally lying on shoare is wett at full tyde and dry at ebbing
water which is a great meanes to perish her and her riggeing, and in
this perishing condition shee hath bin in for these fower moneths last
past and growes dayly worse and worse soe that if shee lye soe much longer
and bee not repayred shee will bee little or nothing worth the premisses
hee deposeth of his owne sight and knowledge being an Inhabitant [neere GUTTER]
the place where shee lyeth and takeing dayly notice of her perishing condition
as hee passed to and fro by her and having bin aboard and helped to make
her fast severall tymes when shee brake loose as aforesayd And saith
that such her perishable condition is well knowne to other able Mariners
and Seamen liveing neere the place where shee lyes And further
hee cannot depose

Repeated with his precontest before
doctor Godolphin./

John Martin [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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The 15th day of January 1657 English style

Examined upon the sayd Petition./

A busines of examination

Rp. EA. jus

William Tayler of Wapping in the parish
of Saint Mary Matsellon alias Whitechappell and
County of Middlesex Lighterman aged sixty yeares
or thereabouts a wittnesse sworne and examined saith
and deposeth as followeth./

To the sayd petition hee saith that hee is a lighterman by trade and hath
bin for these thirty yeares last past or mor imployed in ballasting of shipps
and thereby knoweth that the Office of Ballasting of shipps hath bin an
ancient office and continued and put in practize and exercised by such
as had the graunt thereof and hee hath knowne Mr Samuell Bu[XX]ell
and after him Mr William Mounti[X]ye and others Grauntees thereof exercise the
sayd office of ballasting shipps by officers by them imployed thereabout,
And that the sayd Office is now graunted by Pattent from his highnesse
the Lord Protector unto Thomas Lidington (sic) George Bourman Samuell Clarke
and Oliver Williams who are now in the actuall possession and exercise thereof
And hee this deponent well knoweth that in order to their exercise thereof
publication was made by printed papers sett up at the Custome house and at the Exchange
London and on divers places neere the River of Thames to give notice to all
Masters of shipps and others that have use of Ballast, that they were
to take in their ballast by order and authority of the sayd office Which notwith=
standing and all though the sayd Grantees Thomas Lidington George Bourman Samuell Clarke and Oliver Williams had by their Officers and Ministers
provided

Topics

People


Thomas Lidington (sic) George Bourman Samuell Clarke and Oliver Williams (patentees of the Lord Protector for the Ballast Office)

William Tayler (lighterman of Saint Mary matsellon alias Whitechappell, aged 60)

Places


Ballast Office, London

Thames Riverscape showing the Ratcliff Cross Stairs, Phoenix Wharf, the Ballast Office and Marriage's Wharf: 1937

Sources

Primary sources

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