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distinguish, and saith the said shipps hel … distinguish, and saith the said shipps helme was thereupon putt on starboard, which<br />
brought the shipp round to, so that the sea runneing very high, the said shipp<br />
struck of her rudder, but at what depth of water shee then was, hee saith hee<br />
did not observe neither doeth hee remember, The premisses hee declareth<br />
upon the grounds of knowledge predeposed And further cannot depose./
To the 7th article hee saith, That the said shipp gott of and came into deepe<br />
water, where her Companie handed the sailes, and brought her to anchor with<br />
two anchors in about 5. or 6. fathom water, and strooke both her yards and<br />
topmasts, but the said two anchors came home, and then the said shipp struck on the<br />
sands, so that the shipps Companie were forced to cutt the Cables, and yet<br />
could not flatt the shipp, but were forced againe to come to an anchor, after<br />
shee had beaten over another sand, and the same shipp grounded at low water<br />
and the storme encreasing they were for the preservation of their lives forced<br />
to cutt away and putt the said shipp on shoare in the flood, which was<br />
done (as this deponent beleeveth) by the said Wilkinsons consent, this deponent not<br />
being then aboard the said shipp, but being gone from her with the shipps boate, and<br />
some others of her Companie, and sewall passengers to preserve their lives and<br />
putt them on board a hoy that then ridd in the channell about a mile and a<br />
half distant from the said shipp. And further cannot depose:-/
To the 8th Article hee saith, That in severall particulars in the said shipps<br />
Course the said Wilkinson shewed himselfe wilfull and refractory, and<br />
did not suffer the said Warren to doe or commaund according to his owne judgement<br />
or likeing in the pilotage or conduct of the said shipp as is predeposed, And saith<br />
the said Warren at the time aforesaid commaunding that onely one of the<br />
Cables should be cutt, and that the shipp should pull the other after her to<br />
keepe her head to windward, the same was not obeyed, both the cables being<br />
cutt, but by whom this deponent saith hee knoweth not, And saith, That to the<br />
best of this deponents Judgement the inconveniences that did happen to the said shipp<br />
and goods came not by any default either of care or abilitie in the said Warren,<br />
to pilot and conduct her, And otherwise saving his foregoing deposition hee saith<br />
hee cannot depose./
To the last hee saith, his foregoeing deposition is true./
To the Crosse Interrogatories:-/ [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first hee answereth and saith, That hee this rendent was Boateswaine<br />
of the said shipp ''Exchange'' the time predeposed, and went in her from Gravesend<br />
to the hope and thense towards the downes as predeposed, and saith hee equally<br />
favoureth the parties litigant in this Cause:/
To the second hee saith the said shipp ''Exchange'' was not cleared at Gravesend<br />
till it grew late upon the Saturday night predeposed, the wynd being then very<br />
high, and sewall of the shipps Companies a shoare, so that there was no likelihood<br />
to saile thense that day towards the downes, And further saving his foregoing<br />
deposition hee cannot depose:-/
To the third hee saith, the said shipp stayed at Gravesend till about 4 of the<br />
Clock on the Lords day, and staid that night in the hope./
To the 4th hee referreth himselfe to his foregoing deposition, And further<br />
cannot answer./
To the 5th hee referreth himself to his foregoing depositon, And further<br />
cannot depose, not remembring that hee heard the said Warren speake nor<br />
Wilkinson speake any such words as is interrate.
To the 6th hee referreth himselfe to his foregoing deposition, And further<br />
cannot depose save that the said Wilkinson and Warren did sewall timessaid Wilkinson and Warren did sewall times +
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