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HCA 13/70 f.499r Annotate
First transcribed 17 January 2015  +
First transcriber Colin Greenstreet  +
Folio 499  +
Parent volume HCA 13/70  +
Side Recto  +
Status Uploaded image; transcribed on 17/01/2015  +
Transcription water and hee saith hee this deponent hathwater and hee saith hee this deponent hath observed for these twentye yeares<br /> last past hee having bin a waterman used the river of Thames soe longe and longer that it hath bin the custome that shipps who came into the<br /> River of Thames laden, may and doe usually fasten to any shipp lying<br /> in the sayd River either by a chayne or otherwise moored.<br /> for the space of one tyde and hee hath knowne divers shipps<br /> doe soe and this custome hee saith is well knowne to Mariners and such as<br /> use the River of Thames And further hee cannot depose saving his<br /> following deposition/ To the third and fowerth articles hee saith that after the sayd Woodfin<br /> was come on board the''ffrancis and Mary'' a hawser was fastned by<br /> some of the sayd Captaine Woodfins Company to the Cable of the<br /> ''ffrancis and Mary'' and continued there fastned to the sayd Cable<br /> about a quarter of an hower in which tyme the sayd Woodfins company<br /> heaved their shipp to the ''ffrancis and mary'' and some of them went on<br /> board her intending (as this deponent beleeveth) to make gast<br /> an other hawser about the ''ffrancis and Maries'' Mizen Mast or<br /> some other part of her, but the sayd Captaine Smith seeing<br /> their intente tooke a hatchet and in a willfull and angrie manner cut the sayd ''Exeter Merchants''<br /> hawser which was soe fastned to the ''ffrancis and Maries'' Cable after<br /> it had bin soe fastned above a quarter of an hower, and contrary to the<br /> Custome predeposed of turned her the ''Exeter Merchant'' and her ladeing<br /> on [?derift], and while these things were thus acteing the tyde being<br /> turned and the tyde of ebb running stronge the sayd Woodfin with much<br /> hazard leaped from aboard the sayd ''ffrancis and Marie'' to his<br /> owne shipp and caused his company presently<br /> to dropp an Anchor and vere their cable and doe their utmost diligence<br /> to prevent any damage either to their owne shipp or any other that<br /> lay neere which notwithstanding the force of the Ebb carried<br /> the ''Exeter Merchant'' fowle of the arlate shipp the ''Pilgrim''<br /> (who laye asterne of her)<br /> with such force that thereby shee brake her and her owne quarter and her[?gallery] against<br /> the ''Pilgrims'' Boltspritt ans was forced on ground togeather with<br /> the ''Pilgrim'' and an other ship who lay by the ''Pilgrims'' side<br /> And hee saith hee this deponent the better knoweth the premisses for that<br /> hee was neere the ''Exeter Merchant'' in a wherrie of his owne till such tyme as the''Exeter''<br /> ''Merchant'' was turned on drift, and then hee went on board the ''Pilgrim''<br /> )out of which hee was to have receaved goods into his wherrie) by which meanes<br /> hee came to knowe and see the oremisses predeposed touching the ''Exeter Merchants''<br /> falling fowle of the ''Pilgrim'', And saith had not hee this deponent made hastesaith had not hee this deponent made haste  +
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