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the said shipp had bilged thereupon, eithe … the said shipp had bilged thereupon, either the said anchor must in all<br />
probability have been crushed or bruised, or that the same must have<br />
runne into or stucke in the said shipp, neither of which was done of this<br />
deponents sight and certaine knowledge, And further saith, That the said shipp<br />
the ''Supply'' in the moneths of June, July August and September last<br />
past and before had noe more then fower anchors belongig to the same and<br />
that at the time of the dammage sutained as aforesaid, two of the said<br />
shipps anchors were in the same, and the third anchor was the about<br />
one hundred foote distance from the said shipp the ''Abraham'' to the Southward<br />
and the other videlicet the anchor of the said shipp ''Supply'' so weighed as<br />
aforesaid, was then at the distance predeposed Northward, And saith<br />
That the broaken anchor so found as aforesaid under the bough of the said<br />
shipp the ''Abraham'' was a fifth anchor which did not at all belong to the said shipp<br />
the ''Supply'' of this deponents certaine knowledge, being Master of the said shipp<br />
the ''supply'' for all the time next predeposed: And otherwise cannot depose
To the 19:th hee saith, That hee this deponent was present together with<br />
the said Leshly and others when the fflooke of the anchor arlate which<br />
as the Cause of the dammage predeposed was taken up, [?and] upon the<br />
takeing up of the same wished the said Leshly and others concerning the<br />
said dammage to keepe the said fflooke or peece of an anchor tellinge<br />
them hee beleeved it was all the reparation they were like to have for<br />
their dammage sustained as aforesaid, And saith that notwithstanding<br />
this deponent shortly after and severall times since enquired of the said<br />
Leshley and others what was become of the said fflooke or peece of the<br />
anchor with intent that the injustice of their pretence against the parte<br />
producent in this Cause might thereby bee discovered, yet hee thisd<br />
deponent could never since heare any newes of the same,/ And<br />
otherwise cannot depose:-/
To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true:-/:-
Hen: Oake
Repeated before doctor Clark and<br />
doctor Godolphin:-/
See his answer to the Interrogatories in '''F.F.F.'''
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