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<document-start>
1. as the Interrogatorie requireth) hee saith, hee is noe lowe water
2. man, nor imployed for takeing up of Ballast, nor hath ˹any˺ ... share in
3. any lighters nor is any way related to any of the Interrogate Pryors lighters
4. ˹or any other lighters˺ And saith the sayd Jones and Marketure are low watermen and lighter
5. men who are usually imployed in takeing up of ballast And further
6. cannot answere./
7. To the 2 Interrogatorie hee answereth negatively for his part
8. and verily beleeveth and is perswaded in his conscience that noe lowe
9. water man nor ballast man nor labourer workeing in lighters which
10. are imployed to that use nor any but the producent doth beare any
11. part of the charge of this suite. And further hee cannot answere/
12. the marke of the sayd
13. Edward E R [MARKE] Ryder/ MARKE, RH SIDE
14.
15. The nineth of June 1657.
16. <margin value="Left">Ewen against Prior.}
17. ex parte Ewen.}</margin>
18. examined upon the fore said allegation.
19. <margin value="Left">Rp. 5</margin>
20. Henry Wilson of Greenwich labourer, aged 40 yeeres
21. or thereabouts sworne and exámined.
22. To the first hee saith hee well knoweth the producent Mrs Ewen
23. and the wharfe and bancke arlate, whereof hee saith shee hath bin and
24. is commonly accounted the owner, yeelding a XXXXX, for that hee by
25. times for theise seaven yeeres hath used to worke ......... as a
26. Labourer upon the said wharfe and about the same.
27. To the second and third ˹and fourth˺ árticles hee saith that hee alsoe well knoweth
28. the arlate Richard Prior, who was and is a low water man and for
29. such commonly reputed, And saith that about eight monethes since there
30. being severall lighters at worke in an undue manner in the River of
31. Thames taking up ballast neere the said wharfe and bancks, and making
32. severall pitts and ...... holes to the greate dammage of the said wharfe.
33. the said Mris Ewens caused one of them, namely that lighter which
34. was next and neerest her wharfe to be stopt or staid, to the end of
35. getting some satisfaction towards the said dammage, and being soe stopt
36. hee saith the said Prior came and owned and demanded the same, in
37. the presence and hearing of this deponent, who as one that assisted
38. in making the said stay, and sawe the said lighters soe at worke. By
39. which working of lighters there and making holes and pitts, there are
40. severall bancks or hills arisen betweene them to the hinderance and
41. much endammaging the passage of vessells and boates that way. And
42. further that at the time of of the said stay the said Priors men said that
43. hee had two other lighters at worke or to worke when hee pleased to
44. take up ballast, and this deponent then taking notice of the hole where
45. the said lighters soe claimed by the said Prior wrought, did shortly after
46. measure the same and found it foure foote deep, and two hundred and
47. odd foote from the said wharfe. And since the premisses this deponent
48. <margin value="Bottom right, under main body of text, as lead to next page">hath</margin>
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