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arlate shipp the ''Alexander'' did ride by a myle distamce and better nor at any tyme make fast to any of her cables Anchors or bouy roapes nor cut or cause to be cut and carried away any of the bouyes buoy- roapes or Anchors of the ''Alexander'' or any other shipp, nor cut and carry away any boyes bouy ropes Cables or Anchors but what did properly belonge to and were the sayd shipp the ''desyres'' owne, And further hee deposeth not/ To the 2 article of the sayd allegation hee sith that in the moneths and tyme arlate (the tyme more certaynely hee doth not now remember) the sayd shipp ''desyre'' was by stresse of wether driven out to sea and her Master and company forced to lett their Anchors slipp and goe away to sea for their better preservation, and leave them five tymes, and did when they soe went away, leave bouyes to theirAnchors intending to returne and come to their owne Anchors againe by assistance of the sayd bouyes but by reason that divers tymes the bouyes soe left are by violence of the sea or otherwise broken off and lost, the Anchors they are left fastned to cannot be found, And saith that the sayd Colquite by reason hee was soe driven out had his bouyes broken off or othewise taken off and thereby lost three Anchors the sayd voyage though hee used all diligence to finde them this hee knoweth being boatswaine aboard her as aforesayd And further cannot depose./ To the 3 article of the sayd allegation hee saith that hee this deponent being Boatswaine of, and aboard the ''desyre'' as aforesayd the voyage in question well knoweth that the sayd Colquite did once upon his returne into the Roade arlate after hee had bin driven out thence make the sayd shipp ''desyre'' fast to a shipp Roape or bouy and ridd by it and an other anchor of the ''desyres'' for a tyme, and at his goeing away weighed his owne Anchor belonging to the ''desyre'', but could not loosen his roape from the slipp roape aforesayd and notwithstanding hee endeavoured soe to doe was at length forced to cut and did cutt his the sayd Colquites owne roape which was made fast to the sayd slipp bouy roape, and left about a fathome and a halfe of the sayd Colquites owne roape fastned to the sayd slipp bouy roape, and left alsoe the sayd bouy and bouye roape and his the sayd Colquites owne peece of roape fastned togeather without doeing [?any] the least preiudice to the sayd bouy and slipp bouy roape this hee deposeth of certayne knowledge seeing the same soe done And further hee deposeth not./ To the 4th article of the sayd allegation hee saith that hee this deponent being boatswaine as aforesayd and aboard thereby knoweth that the sayd henry Colquite had the voyage aforesayd some dutch men aboard the ''desyre'' aforesayd and amongst others the arlate Peter Smith, hance or Nance Peterson, and Peter hannc[XX] which hee knoweth
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