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lading was occasioned by her bildging upon … lading was occasioned by her bildging upon an Anchor of this deponents said<br />
shipp the ''Supply'', which, as they then pretended to this deponent lay under<br />
the bough of the said shipp the ''Abraham'', and desired this deponent to goe<br />
along with them to help to gett the said anchor from under their said shipp,<br />
which this deponent accordingly did, and being come to the said shipp the<br />
''Abraham'' this deponent and others in presence of the said Walter fflint James<br />
Leshly and others felt with a boate hooke, and thereby certainely perceived<br />
That there was an anchor lay soe close under the bough of the said shipp<br />
the ''Abraham'' that they could not gett the iron of the boate hooke<br />
between the said shippes bough and the anchor, by meanes of which anchor<br />
the said fflint Lashly and others in this deponents presence and hearing acknowledged<br />
that the said shipp the ''Abraham'' was sunke, and the sammage aforesaid<br />
sustained, as indeed and in trueth this deponent then also well observed and<br />
saw. The premisses this deponent declareth upon certaine knowledge, And<br />
otherwise saving his following deposition hee saith hee cannot depose./
To the 5:th and 6th hee saith, That the boyroape of the anchor predeposed being reached<br />
by a boatehooke and brought to the view of this deponent and the said Leshley<br />
fflint and others then present this deponent immediately declared to the said<br />
Leshley and the resst then present, that the said boy roape did not att all<br />
belong to any anchor appertaineing to his said shipp the ''Supply'', and after<br />
the weighing of the said Anchor this deponent with the said James Leshley<br />
saw and observed the same to be a small anchor broaken in the shanck about<br />
foure foot from the Crosse, and saith, That at the time of the weighing of<br />
the broaken anchor aforesaid this deponent being in a boate with one of the<br />
said Leshleys Companie, and being willing to give all possible satisfaction to<br />
the said Leshley and all others concerned in the dammage aforesaid., went and<br />
felt under water with a boate hooke for the anchor of this deponents said shipp<br />
the ''Supply'' and found the same, videlicet the anchor of the ''Supply'' which then<br />
was nearest unto the said shipp the ''Abraham'' at the distance of twenty<br />
foure foote or thereabouts from the same further into the Thames, And<br />
that there was no anchor appertaining to the said shipp the ''Supply''<br />
within such a distance from the said shipp the ''Abraham'', as possibly<br />
to doe any dammage or preiudice to the said Vessell. The premisses hee<br />
deposeth upon his owne ocular observation. And otherwise saving his<br />
following deposition hee saith hee cannot depose:-/
To the 7:th and 8:th hee saith and deposeth, That about three or<br />
four daies after the weighing of the broaken anchor aforesaid, this<br />
deponent caused the anchor of the said shipp ''Supply'' then being nearer<br />
to the said shipp the ''Abraham'' to be weighed, and found the same<br />
to be clearer and freer from doing any dammage to the said vessell the<br />
''Abraham'' or sustaineing any bruise or Crush by the same, which in case<br />
(they the same, which in case<br />
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