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To the third article he deposeth and saith … To the third article he deposeth and saith That he being<br />
as he hath predeposed a board the said shipp the ''Desire''<br />
at the time aforesaid did see the arlate shipp the<br />
''Sisters'' come with a ffresh gale of wind directly towards<br />
the ''Desire'', and that he heard the Masters Mate of<br />
the ''Desire'' call unto the Company of the ''Sisters'', asking<br />
where will you be, where will you bee, and that there was<br />
some answear made thereto by some or one of the Company<br />
of the ''Sisters'', but he saith he being then busy did not<br />
heare what were the words, And he saith that notwithstanding<br />
the said Masters Mate of the ''Desire'' calling unto<br />
them of the ''Sisters'', the said shipp the ''Sisters'' did continue<br />
in her course, and did willfully come aboard the ''desire'',<br />
soe violently that she brake downe her quarter, and her<br />
missen Mast, and her maine beame in the hould, and<br />
alsoe runn her anchor with soe much violence into the<br />
sides of the ''Desire'' that she broke and left part<br />
of her said anchor there, And that by the reason of the<br />
damage she soe received by the shipp the ''Sisters'' she was<br />
three or fower foote water deepe in the hould, And that<br />
without doubt had she not bin a strong and staunch<br />
shipp she had sunck downe by the ''Sisters'', and her Company<br />
had all bin lost, but by their diligence and care in<br />
working for preserving of her and stopping her leakes<br />
(which the ''Sisters'' by her Anchor had made) with beefe, It<br />
pleased God they escaped perishing The premisses he well<br />
knoweth being aboard her, and at the time she was hurt<br />
and helpeing in her preservation And further he cannot<br />
depose.
To the fourth article he deposeth and saith that after the Masters<br />
Mate of the ''Desire'' did call unto them of the ''Sisters'' upon his<br />
perceiving that they came directly towards the ''Desire'', the<br />
Company of the ''Sisters'' might easily have avoyded coming<br />
foule of the ''Desire'', and had the Company of the ''Sisters'' borne<br />
up ahead of the ''Desire'', they of the ''Desire'' might have helpt<br />
in eschewing the danger, but as the ''Desire'' lay, and as the<br />
''Sisters'' came, which was directly willfully upon the ''Desire''<br />
she could not possibly avoyd the damage and danger that<br />
happened And further he cannot depose.
To the fifth and sixth articles he deposeth and saith that<br />
he hath gone in the shipp the ''Desire'' the fower last<br />
voyages she hath made, and by that meanes well knoweth that<br />
she was a strong and staunch shipp before the dammage<br />
done her by the ''Sisters'' predeposed of, and that she hath made<br />
but one voyage since she was [?troughly] repayred, and that<br />
(as he beleiveth) it hath cost the Master and Company<br />
in repayring her of the dammages soe sustayned by the ''Sisters''<br />
thirteene pounds sterling, and that she was soe extreemely<br />
shaken by the ''Sisters'' running soe violently upon her that<br />
not lesse then a hundred pounds will make her as good and<br />
as tight as she was before the said ''Sisters'' runne upon her<br />
And''Sisters'' runne upon her<br />
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