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HCA 13/53 f.22v Annotate
First transcribed 27 January 2018  +
First transcriber Colin Greenstreet  +
Folio 22  +
Parent volume HCA 13/53  +
Side Verso  +
Status Uploaded image; partially transcribed on 27/01/2018  +
Transcription [ADD DATA] 8th ffebruary 1636. '''Samuel[ADD DATA] 8th ffebruary 1636. '''Samuell Jourdayne''' of the parish+ of Saint Olave in Southwarke Joyner aged about<br /> 55 yeares sworne before the worshipfull Joseph Martyn doctor of Lawes Surrogate<br /> to the right worshipfull Sir Henry Marten knighte Judge of his Mayestyes high<br /> Court of the Admiraltye and afterwards examined<br /> on certayne Interrogatoryes sayeth and deposeth therunto as followeth videlicet To the first Interrogatory hesayeth That uppon the seaventeenth day of August 1636<br /> last past righte over against<br /> fferryes his wharfe in the river of Thames fourtye yards and upwards<br /> above London bridge, there was putt aboard the boate or engine in<br /> question<br /> a cetayne quantitye of gravell<br /> or sande; but this deponent at the tyme that the wager in question was sayd<br /> to be winn) did not see the sayd gravell or sande weighed, but<br /> there were a great many spectators at that tyme (who as they sayd)<br /> saw the weighinge therof, and by their generall report, there was above<br /> five tonns and a halfe of gravell or sand putt into her, reckoninge twenty hundredw<br /> weighte to every tonne, but this deponent sawe and tooke notice of the place<br /> where the sayd boate or engene then laye when she tooke in the sayd<br /> gravell, because he dailye worketh at the bridge house beinge imployed by<br /> the Cittye to carrye timber for the mendinge of the bridge and to sett the<br /> workemen to worke and hath sene it measured by a lyne from thence to the sayd bridge/ And he verilye beleiveth that the tyme in question there<br /> were above five tonns of greavell abord the sayd boate, for that at divers<br /> other tymes he hath seene and taken notice of the weight of the gravell putt into her above<br /> five tonnes of greavell, and there did but halfe a shovell of<br /> gravell fall out of the basketts wherein it was weighed after the weighinge<br /> and puttinge thereof abord the sayd boat or engine, the sayd Mr Busmer<br /> would commannd and cause his men to putt in a shovell full of gravell for it,<br /> And further he cannot depose/ To the second he sayeth, That teh tyme in question when the sayd wager was<br /> wonne videlicet the seaventeenth day of August last aforesayd<br /> none of the sayd gravell was taken out of or fell of it selfe out of her in cominge<br /> from the place where she tooke in the sayd gravell untill she went<br /> through the bridge Eastward about fiftye yards<br /> then she lett fall all the gravell which was in one position or houlde of her<br /> the sayd boate returned westward through the bridge and went up to the place<br /> where she tooke in her ladinge videlicet above fourtye yards westward above the sayd bridge and three discharged the rest of her ladinge<br /> and did not lett fall any parte of her ladinge neither was there any part therof<br /> taken out of her in her returne to the place aforesayd./ The premisses he knoweth<br /> to be true for that he this deponent understandinge that the sayd boate or<br /> Engine that the sayd boate or<br /> Engine  +
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