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Transcription

To the first Position of the said Libell hee saith and deposeth
that for and during all the moneth of december 1658
and before and since, the said Libellate John Miller
was Master and Partowner of the Libellate ship the John
and Catherin. and soe Commonly accounted and reputed
The Premises hee deposeth for that hee hath (off and
on) belonged to the said ship for seaven yeeres last
And further cannot depose./:

To the 2d hee saith that at such time as the dammage
in question was done, the Lilate [BLANK IN MANUSCRIPT] Elliot and alsoe
one Risby were on board the Lilate ship the
Coast ffrigot as her Company acknowledged but which of them was the master of
her then hee cannot certainely tell, but beleeveth the
said Risby was her then Master for that hee went the
said time from Gravesend Master of her: And further
cannot depose./.

To the 3d and 4th Positions of the said Libell hee saith that
in the said moneth of december 1658. and before the damage
in Question happened the said ship the John and Katherin
lay safe moored in the Roade of Gravesend, and had lay (sic)
moored there in safety for about two dayes space before
the Damage in Question happened And saith that during
the time the said ship lay moored in the said Place, namely
in the morning of a Saturday happening in the said
moneth of December 1658 being as this Deponent remembreth
the Eighteenth day of the said moneth. the said ship the
Coast ffrigot fell foule of the said ship the John
and katherine, and came with her midships, athwart the
Hause of the John and Katherine, the Coste ffrigotts
Topsailes being halfe mast downe lying at the mast
and her foresaile lying at the mast hauled up in the
Brailes, and had never an Anchor downe that brought
her up. And the Coste ffrigot, (missing
the Boltsprit of the John and Katherine,) broke the
head of the John and Katherine Cleere away, and the
same was utterly lost, And broke her best bower
Cable; by which shee roade, and Carried the said ship
John and Katherin foule of a Cable belonging
to a ship called the Grayhound there Ryding. and
to cleere her from the said Cable some of the John
and katherines Company were forced to cut and
did cut their other Cable that was out, about two
or three fathoms from the Anchor. The Premisses
hee deposeth being the said time mate of the said
ship and on board her, and an Eye Witnes of the Premisses
and helping to Cleere and new Moore the said ship John and
Katherin: And further cannot depose./