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Transcription

The same day:/:

Examined on the said Libell: [CENTRE HEADING]

Rp 2dus [LH MARGIN]

Robert Scotting of Wapping Mariner
aged 32 years or thereabouts sworne and Examined

To the first position of the said Libell he saith and deposeth
that for and during all the moneth of December 1658
and before and since the Libellate John Miller was the master and part owner of the
ship the John and Katherine and soe Comonly accounted
which hee knoweth for that hee belonged to the said ship
about two or three monethes before the Damage in Question.
happened and hath belonged to her ever since, And further
cannot depose.

To the second hee saith that by the relation of the Company
of the Coast ffrigot Libellate, the Libellate Elliot and Risby
were on board the said ffrigot at the time shee did the
Damage to the John and Katherin as hereafter is expressed
but which of them was master of her then hee Knoweth
not; but saith that the said Risby went from Gravesend
master of her And further cannot depose ./.

To the third and fourth positions hee saith that in the said
moneth of December 1658 and untill the
Dammage in Question happened the said ship the John
and Katherine lay moored in the Roade of
Gravesend, in safety in a Convenient place where
ships doe most Comonly ryde, and saith that on
the morning of the Fifteenth day or thereabouts of the
said moneth of December 1658 as the said ship the John
and Katherine was moored as aforesaid,
the ship the Coast ffrigot, came, and fell
thwart the hause of the John and Katherine
and brake her head quite off. (which was lost thereby)
and alsoe brake her best bower Cable, and Carried the
other Cable and the Anchor of the said ship John and Katherine foule of the Cable belonging
to a ship called the Grayhound there ryding, and for
the Cleering of the said two Cables the Company
of the John and Katherine were forced to cut their Cable
about two of three fathome from the Anchor, And saith
that when the said Coast ffrigot came thwart the hause
of the John and Katherine, the Coast ffrigotts, Topsailes
were halfe mast downe, lying at the mast, and her
foresaile halfe up in the Brayles; And her Boate
was towing her to the Northward: And saith at the time
the said damage was done this Deponent could not perceive
that the Coast ffrigot had ever an Anchor downe, The
Premisses hee deposeth being the said time Boatswaine
of, and on board the said Ship John and Katherine and
Sawe, the Premisses acted and done as aforesaid
And further cannot Depose:/.
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