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To the second article of the sayd allegation hee saith that upon or about the first of May 1655 the sayd Vessell returned from Zant and Cadiz arlate laden with Currance and Verina Tobaccoe and being come into the River of Thames neere Lymehouse the sayd Woodfin and Company (the tyde of ffloud being spent that they could not carrie their sayd vessell any higher up the River) endeavoured to bring her to the lower chayne at Lymehouse there till lowe water, the sayd Woodfin caused a hawser to be fastned to the Cable or the boltsprit (but which of them hee remembreth not) of the ''ffrancis and Mary'' arlate (as shipp who lay fastned to the sayd chayne) the premisses hee deposeth being Quarter Master of, and aboard the ''Exeter Merchant'' when they soe happened And hee saith hee hath observed during all the tyme that hee hath bin a seaman, (which hath bin for these twenty sixe or twenty eight yeares last past) it hath bin a usuall Custome that any shipps comming into the River of Thames laden may and doe ususally for better preservation of them and their ladeing fasten to and upon an other shipp there either moored, or rideing by the chayne, for the space of one tyde, And further saving his subsequent deposition hee cannot depose/ To the third article of the sayd allegation hee saith that the sayd Woodfin having caused a hawser to be fastned either to the boltspritt or Cable of the ''ffrancis and Mary'' did cause his shipps company to heave the shipp ''Exeter Merchant'' up to the Midshipp of the ''ffrancis and Mary'' entending to fasten an other hawser to some other part of the sayd shipp ''ffrancis and Mary'', but the arlate Smith the Master of her would not suffer the sayd Woodfin and Company soe to doe, but in a violent and willfull manner contrary to the usuall custome in such cases frequent and observed upon the River of Thames did cause the sayd hauser which was fastned as aforesayd either to the Cable or boltspritt of his shipp the ''ffrancis'' ''and Mary'' after it had bin soe fastned a quarter of an hower and better to be cutt by one of his shipps company, and thereby turned the ''Exeter Merchant'' with all her ladeing on drifte to the hazard of the losse of her and it, and danger of other shipps and their goods who laye neere thereunto The premisses hee deposeth for the reasons aforesayd being an eye witnes And further saving his subsequent deposition hee cannot depose/ To the 4th article of the sayd allegation hee saith that the ''Exeter Merchant'' her hawser being soe wilfully cutt by meanes of the sayd Smith and his Company and shee turned a drifte, and the tyde of ebb then running stronge, the sayd Woodfin and Company presently vered their Cable and let fall an Anchor to stay their shipp the ''Exeter Merchant'', and used their utmost diligence to prevent her from receiving any damage and from damnifying any other shipps neere her, which notwithstanding the force of the tyde was such that it carried her fowle of the Boltspritt of the ''Pilgrim'' arlate, who ridd a sterne of her, and by that meanes the Quarter of the ''Exeter Marchant'' was broken downe by the Boltspritt of the ''Pilgrim'', and the aunchient staffe of the ''Exeter Marchant'' broken and lost, and shee, and the ''Pilgrim'' and a Collier that lay on board the ''Pilgrim'' was by force of the tyde runne on ground the premisses hee deposeth for the reasons aforesayd And further hee cannot depose/
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