| First transcribed
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9 February 2013 +
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| First transcriber
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Colin Greenstreet +
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| Folio
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40 +
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| Parent volume
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HCA 13/72 +
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| Side
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Recto +
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| Status
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Uploaded image; transcribed on 09/02/2013 +
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| Transcription
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knoweth that the same is made lawfull soe … knoweth that the same is made lawfull soe to doe by an ancient<br />
statute of this Realme of England made in the tymes of King henry the<br />
seaventh or King henry the eight to which statute for more suretie hee<br />
referreth himselfe And further to this article hee cannot depose/
To the 2 3 and 4th articles of the sayd allegation hee saith that of his certayne<br />
knowledge there hath bin during all the tyme arlate and still is a<br />
shelve or banke of gravell in the River of Thames opposite<br />
to the wharfe of the arlate Ewen: where hee this deponent and<br />
the arlate Pryor and his servants and other Lightermen to the number<br />
of at least forty and more have of this deponents sight and<br />
knowledge have used to worke and take up ballast during all the<br />
yeares and tyme arlate, and this deponent hath many tymes<br />
seene the sayd Pryor and his servants worke upon takeing up of<br />
ballast upon the sayd shelve or banke, and hath alsoe seene the servants<br />
of the arlate Mr Ewen the late husband of Mrs Ewen the party in this<br />
cause (who alsoe kept lighters of his owne and imployed them in takeing<br />
up ballast upon the same shelve or banke) worke and take up ballast<br />
upon the sayd shelve or banke,<br />
And hee this deponent hath observed that the sayd Pryor and his<br />
servants have at such tymes wrought fayerly and orderly as other<br />
lightermen use to doe without makeing hills or holes or pitts in<br />
the River to the endangering of shipps or boates in their passage<br />
but hath wrought orderly and cleered the river as others did for the<br />
benefitt of Navigation, And this deponent hath sawe and observed<br />
that the sayd Master Ewens his servants<br />
did usually worke upon the sayd shelfe about one hundred and<br />
sixteene foote off of his the sayd ewens his wharfe, and made a channell<br />
about fifty fower foote broad as this deponent and his contests upon<br />
Thomas Jones John Orton William Nodes Edward Ryder and<br />
others upon survey and measuring the same doe finde (the sayd<br />
shelfe being usually bare at lowe water)<br />
And this deponent and the<br />
sayd Thomas Jones and others were present when the sayd Mrs Ewens did<br />
cause the sayd Pryors lighter to bee carried on shoare to her<br />
wharfe from the place where the sayd Pryors men were workeing and<br />
takeing up ballast and this deponent and the sayd Jones and others then present<br />
seeing the sayd Lighter violently carried away from the place where shee was<br />
at worke, did take speciall notice of the place where she was at worke when<br />
shee was soe carried away, and this deponent and the sayd Jones Orton Nodes Ryder<br />
and others having since measured the same at lowe water, doe finde that the place<br />
wheredoe finde that the place<br />
where +
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