The 27th of September 1655 [CENTRE HEADING] Examined upon the sayd libell '''4 US''' '''George Watts''' of Butterwick in the County of Lincolnshire Mariner aged 21 yeares or thereabouts a witnesse sworne and examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicit. To the first article he saith that the arlate George Huntington in and during the moneth of September arlate and before was and is Master of the arlate ship the ''William'' this hee knoweth being one of the sayde shipps company and saith hee was and is commonly accompted part Owner of her during the sayd tyme and further hee cannot depose./ To the second third 4th and 5th articles of the sayd libell hee saith hee this deponent being one of the Company thereof and on board well knoweth that the shipp ''William'' arlate was upon Tuesday the eighteenth of this instant September safely moored at Tower Wharfe outermost of two other shipps videlicit a Shipp called the ''Sarah'' an other vessel whose name he knoweth not soe that they lay all three a brest one of an other and saith it is not usuall for shipps to lye there more than three a brest which notwithstand ing hee saith the arlate Nicholas Constant and his Company did in the night tyme next after the eighteenth day come with his ship the ''Waterhound'' arlate and laye her alsoe a brest on the outside of the ''William'' aforesaid soe that then there were fower shipps there lying abrest which the Company of the William perceiving ffrancis ?Thaerat? And William Smith hee of her Company did as the custome in such cases is put out their fenders to preserve the ''William'' as much as might be from any damage which might happen to her by the meanes of the ''Waterhounde'', (the ''William'' being then a floate and empty and but a small vessell of about forty tonnes and the ''waterhound'' being a larger vessell of about threescore tonnes or better and (as afterwards appeared) then laden with Coins And he alsoe saith the sayd Master of the ''Waterhound'' and her Company did in the night tyme next after the sayd Tuesday the 18th of that instant September and without any notice given to the Master and Company of the William aforesayd left his sayde Shipp the ''Waterhound'' inward towards the ''William'', soe that the williams Company could not use any meanes to keepe her above of the ''Waterhounde'', by which meanes as the tyde fell away the ''Water'' ''hound'' leaned in forcibly upon the william, and forced her soe upon the vessell that laye on the inside of her that the ''William'' hunge above water betweene the waterhound and the sayd inside vessell, by meanes whereof the sides of the ''William'' were sore bruised and crushed and the scare of her binde started and driven in about half an inche, and three of her mayne tymbers broken, and her seeleings broken up, and five of her butt heads started and indeede soe crushed and bruised thereby that had not her mayne beame and knees bin very stronge she had bin crushed (as the deponent beleeveth) both sides together. And further saving his subsequent deposition hee cannot depose./ To the 6th hee saith that the next morning after the sayd damage done in the manner aforesaid the arlate George Huntington perceiving and seeing what damage was done to his ship the ''william'' aforesaid by the meanes aforesayd did in the presence and hearing of this deponent and his contest ffrancis ?ThXXX and Thomas Reedman of ?XX the arlate Nicholas Constant which hee had lufted his shipp waterhounde and leaned her upon the ''william'' and told him hee had done her much dammage and hurt thereby, or to that effect to which the sayd Constant replyed in presence and hearing of this deponent and the sayd wittnesses that hee came thither purposely with intente to lay his shipp the ''waterhound'' there and to give her a luft inwards, and alsoe sayd hee cared not though hee had sunke the ''william'', and that hee would not give him two pence satisfaction if he had sunke her or
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