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1. To the fourth hee saith hee remembreth not the precise time of the shipps
2. comming betweene limehouse and Blackwall, but saith shee then drew
3. foure foote and a halfe or foure foote and three quarters water or thereabouts,
4. and that they the master and this deponent are sufficiently experienced
5. in navigating and bringing up vessells, this deponent having bin come
6. foure and twenty times in voyages up the said river to this port.
7. To the fifth hee saith that when the master and this deponent perceived
8. water in the shipp, the said master ˹or other˺ called out for a boate or lighter, which
9. came aboard to help save some of the goods, and that the vessell
10. all along drew depth of water as aforesaid, namely neere or about
11. five foote, and that shee had water enough to saile at limehouse.
12. and saith there was about a foote water in hold when they first sawe it.
13. To the 6th negatively.
14. To the 7th hee saith it was waying water as the said vessell came
15. to the halfe way tree betwixt Gravesend and london, and otheriwse
16. negatively, saving hee cannot answer to the age and ˹number of˺ voyages of the
17. said vessell
18. To the 8th hee cannot answer
19. To the 9th negatively for his part, and otherwise hee
20. referreth himselfe to his foregoeing deposition; saying
21. hee this deponent was the pilot.
22. To the last hee saith the interrate Joost Johnson hath long used the sea
23. of this deponents knowledge, namely above three yeeres, And
24. otherwise hee cannot answer.
25. Corneles CornelesSIGNATURE, RH SIDE
26.
27. The same day. CENTRE HEADING
28. Exámined upon the foresaid allegation.
29. <margin value="Left">Rp. 2.</margin>
30. Hendrick Cornelison of Rotterdam Mariner, aged 23
31. yeeres or thereabouts sworne and exámined.
32. To the first article hee saith hee well knoweth the vessell arlate
33. and hath soe donne for theise three yeares last or thereabouts, and
34. saith shee was all the time arlate a firme stringe an staunch
35. vessell and very fit to receive and carry merchants goods from port
36. to port. And saith that in or about the beginning of May last
37. shee received severall goods abroad her (and amongst them foure
38. bales of bookes) to be brought to this port, which hee knoweth being
39. one of her company, and helping to lade and receive the said bookes
40. and goods.
41. To the second and third árticles hee saith that on about the
42. fifteenth (new stile) of May last the said vessell with the said
43. goods and bookes aboard her departed and sailed from Rotterdam
44. for this port, and about three dayes after came up thether in the
45. River of Thames as farr as Saint Catherines, and saith the said vessell
46. came all the way fairly and orderly up the River in such manner
47. and course of sailing as other vessells use to come up, and that
48. in such her sailing up the said River and after shee came within
49. the same a mischanse befell her, whereby shee sprang a leake,
50. but in what particular place and by what meanes it happened hee
51. knoweth not, but verily beleeveth shee raked upon some anchor
52. that had noe buoy fastened to it, and thereby got that mischanse
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