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To the first Position of the said Libell h … To the first Position of the said Libell hee saith and deposeth<br />
that for and during all the moneth of december 1658<br />
and before and since, the said Libellate John Miller<br />
was Master and Partowner of the Libellate ship the ''John''<br />
''and Catherin''. and soe Commonly accounted and reputed<br />
The Premises hee deposeth for that hee hath (off and<br />
on) belonged to the said ship for seaven yeeres last<br />
And further cannot depose./:
To the 2d hee saith that at such time as the dammage<br />
in question was done, the Lilate [BLANK IN MANUSCRIPT] Elliot and alsoe<br />
one Risby were on board the Lilate ship the<br />
''Coast ffrigot'' as her Company acknowledged but which of them was the master of<br />
her then hee cannot certainely tell, but beleeveth the<br />
said Risby was her then Master for that hee went the<br />
said time from Gravesend Master of her: And further<br />
cannot depose./.
To the 3d and 4th Positions of the said Libell hee saith that<br />
in the said moneth of december 1658. and before the damage<br />
in Question happened the said ship the ''John and Katherin''<br />
lay safe moored in the Roade of Gravesend, and had lay (sic)<br />
moored there in safety for about two dayes space before<br />
the Damage in Question happened And saith that during<br />
the time the said ship lay moored in the said Place, namely<br />
in the morning of a Saturday happening in the said<br />
moneth of December 1658 being as this Deponent remembreth<br />
the Eighteenth day of the said moneth. the said ship the<br />
''Coast ffrigot'' fell foule of the said ship the ''John''<br />
''and katherine'', and came with her midships, athwart the<br />
Hause of the ''John and Katherine'', the ''Coste ffrigotts''<br />
Topsailes being halfe mast downe lying at the mast<br />
and her foresaile lying at the mast hauled up in the<br />
Brailes, and had never an Anchor downe that brought<br />
her up. And the ''Coste ffrigot'', (missing<br />
the Boltsprit of the ''John and Katherine'',) broke the<br />
head of the ''John and Katherine'' Cleere away, and the<br />
same was utterly lost, And broke her best bower<br />
Cable; by which shee roade, and Carried the said ship<br />
''John and Katherin'' foule of a Cable belonging<br />
to a ship called the ''Grayhound'' there Ryding. and<br />
to cleere her from the said Cable some of the ''John''<br />
''and katherines'' Company were forced to cut and<br />
did cut their other Cable that was out, about two<br />
or three fathoms from the Anchor. The Premisses<br />
hee deposeth being the said time mate of the said<br />
ship and on board her, and an Eye Witnes of the Premisses<br />
and helping to Cleere and new Moore the said ship ''John and''<br />
''Katherin'': And further cannot depose./
''Katherin'': And further cannot depose./ +
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