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HCA 13/72 f.33v Annotate
First transcribed 28 April 2014  +
First transcriber Colin Greenstreet  +
Folio 33  +
Parent volume HCA 13/72  +
Side Verso  +
Status Uploaded image; transcribed on 28/04/2014  +
Transcription her husband for some while imployed a lighher husband for some while imployed a lighter or two to take up ballast<br /> neere the said wharfe, but finding that a hole was begun to be made<br /> (which is since almost filled up) that might be some prejudice or dammage<br /> to his said wharfe if hee continued the said taking up ballast there, hee<br /> left t off; And otherwise hee cannot answer saving as aforesaid. To the 6th hee saith that when the said mr Ewen used to take up ballast<br /> as aforesaid, hee used to lay a heape upon his said wharfe, but the<br /> same was noe dammage to his wharfe, nor did his said wharfe faile<br /> or was perished there or by [XXXX] thereof, And otherwise hee cannot<br /> answer saving as aforesaid. To the 7th hee saith the said mr Ewen in his life time let out some<br /> part of the said wharfe and since his wife hath let out the [XXX XXXX],<br /> And otherwise hee cannot depose, saving mris Ewen is to keepe the<br /> whole wharfe in repaire. Repeated before Collonel Cock. The marke of '''WW''' Ba[?rnes] [MARKE, RH SIDE] **************************************** The first day of June 1657. Ewen against Prior.}<br /> Clements. Cheeke.} Examined upon an allegation given in on the<br /> behalfe of the said Prior. '''Rp. .jus.''' '''Ex parte Prior.''' '''Thomas Jones''' of Wapping Wall Lighterman aged<br /> 50 yeares or thereabouts sworne and examined. To the first article hee saith hee hath for theise seaventeene<br /> or eighteene yeares last used the occupation of a lighterman in the<br /> River of Thames, and hath bin frequently imployed in the taking up of<br /> ballast therein, and thereby well knoweth that for that time it hath<br /> bin a common use and custome practized in the said River by lightermen<br /> and their servants with lighters to take up and recover Gravell out of<br /> the said river upon any shelves or bancks for ballast, at fourtie<br /> foote distance from the bancks or walls of the said River, and [?at ?any]<br /> place in the said River without fourtie foote from the bancks and<br /> walls, and hee referrs himselfe to the statutes in that case made. And<br /> otherwise hee cannot depose. To the second hee saith that for theise five yeares last past and upwards there hath<br /> bin and is a banck or shelve of sand or gravell in the river of Thames<br /> over against or opposite to the wharfe or ground in question of mris<br /> Ewens, where diverse lightermen and lighters besides the said Prior have<br /> used to worke and take up ballast; and saith that at such time as<br /> mris Ewen caused the said Priors lighter to be seized or stayed (about<br /> foure or five monethes since) his the said Priors m[?e]n or such as were imployed by him<br /> were at worke or imployed in taking up gravell at the<br /> distance of two hundred and sixtie foote at the least from the<br /> wharfe or bancks of the said Ewens, which hee knoweth because hee<br /> this deponent then sawe the said lighter at worke there and sawe her<br /> soe seized, and taking notice of the place, hee hath since measured the<br /> same, and found it to be at that distance. And otherwise hee cannot<br /> depose. Toherwise hee cannot<br /> depose. To  +
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