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Transcription

4. die Decembris 1660./: [CENTRE HEADING]

Sup Allone prdict Examinatus./

Rp. 2.us

Robert Smith de Greenwitch Nauta annos agens
19 aut circiter testis in hac causa productus et
Juratus./

Ad j.um arlum dicta Allonis dicit that the arlate John Absalan
Anthony Deane. Mr Strange and nathaniel Butler and Company
were the time arlate and before, the true and lawfull owner
of the arlate ship the Swanne and her tackle apparrell
and furniture and soe Comonly accounted to be, which hee
deposeth for that hee belonged to the said ship about a yeere
before shee was bilged as hereafter is mentioned./

Ad 2. 3. 4. et 5 arlos dicit that about a fortnight before his Sacred
Majestyes happy returne to this City (the time other=
wise hee doth not remember) the said Ship Swanne then
lying in Tinmouth haven wighed to come out thence
with a lading of Coales for London. and saith a ship
of Brighthampson whereof one Nicholas Payne was master
came next after the said ship Swanne, and coming nere
unto her, and there being a fflemish hoy ahead of the Seanne
soe that her Company durst not make more saile for feare
of being foule of her, the Mate of the said Ship Swanne
called out three times to the said Paine and Company to lower their
sailes, [?saying ?that] if they did not they would be foule of the
Swanne or to that effect, and the said Paine made answer
that hee would warrant them hee would not be foule of
her, and would not cause his sailes to be lowered, but Imediately
after withall his sailes full at the turning of the bill point becalming the Swan runne his ships boultspritt into
the middle of the Swanns mizen shrouds, and thereupon
the Company of the SWanne (whereof this deponent was then one)
dropped an Anchor, and vered the Cable as much as they
durst for touching the ground