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a younge man a waterman that hee hadving r … a younge man a waterman that hee hadving rowed that day in a boate<br />
with the said John Marten and carried the said Thomas Stuttin<br />
aboard his shipp, hee the said Stuttin quarrelling with him about<br />
their pay had stroke and wounded the said John Marten and broke<br />
his head in such sort as was there to be seene, and this deponent<br />
searching the said Johns wounds and being forced to make [?mXXXX] his skull [?brake]<br />
and deprest upon the dura mater and a greate deall of [?congealed]<br />
blood lying upon the dura mater, soe that this deponent was<br />
faine to take away the said blood, and three peeces of his skull<br />
that were broken into his head, which as the said ffreeman said the<br />
said Stuttin soe broke and wounded by striking the said John<br />
on the head with a boate hooke staffe, and saith the said John<br />
was in soe apparent hazard of his life with the said wounds<br />
that in case hee had not had present help by Chirurgions<br />
hee would undoubtedly have soone lost his life: And<br />
saith the said wounds were soe greate and dangerous,<br />
and hee is soe disabled thereby that hee will never in this<br />
deponents opinion recover his former strength againe<br />
his head being soe weakened thereby that through the wall<br />
of his skull and having but skin and a little flesh within it<br />
over his dura and pia mater, a [?fillip] of the [?Juigar]<br />
given him in that place is able to kill him<br />
nor is hee able to rowe and worke as formerly nor ever<br />
will be, and besides those woundes on the head, hee had<br />
other on his back and other places of his body given him<br />
by strokes with some greate staffe, or the like as to this<br />
deponent appeared and by meanes of such his beating<br />
and wounding weakening of his body losse of his time while hee laye under [?XXX]<br />
which was about eleaven weekes (during which space hee kept<br />
his bedd) and charges of Chirurgerie the said Robert<br />
Marten was and is in this deponents iudgement damnified<br />
the summe of 100 ''li'' sterling, and for this deponents part<br />
hee saith that in case hee was in the condition and was<br />
such a person as the said John Marten was before his woundes<br />
hee would not be so wounded for 200 ''li'' sterling: and<br />
saith the said John Marten is not yet fully recovered, not<br />
able to worke at his trade but weakely and to rowe<br />
a little way as to and againe over the water and aboard<br />
shipps to the greate losse of the producent, whereas before<br />
his wounding hee the said John was able to have earned the said Robert<br />
Marten 20 ''s'' a weeke one weeke with another and soe much many other<br />
water men doe ordinarily get by rowing, ala nescit [?XXX]<br />
Supra reliquis non examinatur et cetera.
William Thompson [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
Ad Interria [CENTRE HEADING]
Ad jum [?venir] [?regetas] per producen, aut [?expectet]in [hac] causa, alr salvis<br />
negativa
Ad 2 refert se ad predepoita, alr nescit Will Thompson [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
[?prefatus] henricus Rugge ad Interria [CENTRE HEADING]
Ad 1um et 2um [?XXXX] [?regains] per produ[?cen], [?XX] [?XXXX] [?XX[] [?expectet], alr salvis predepoita [?XXXX]
Henry Rugg [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]a [?XXXX]
Henry Rugg [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] +
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