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by the sayd Ellis does lye soe neere shoar … by the sayd Ellis does lye soe neere shoare, that lighters and boates carried [XX GUTTER]<br />
to take in or deliver out goods, and watermen and lightermen who came<br />
up the River against tyde and alsoe by such their lying abrest one of an<br />
other forced to keepe out, and rowe against the strength and currant of the<br />
tyde before they can come ashoare at Saint Katherines stayers or [thereabouts GUTTER]<br />
to their great labour and hinderance And further hee cannot depose
To the 4th hee saith most part of the vessells which soe lye on brest at an[d GUTTER]<br />
neere the sayd Ellis his wharfe or yards, were and are ffrench and dutch<br />
vessells and Billanders, whose companyes (being strangers) usually<br />
lye aboard and keepe fiering aboard to dresse their provisions, and [alsoe GUTTER]<br />
have Candle light a board them soe that if any casually (sic) of fyre should<br />
happen aboard them they lyeing soe neere shoare, (and on ground [often GUTTER]<br />
tymes) must nonles occasion great danger of fyre to the houses neere<br />
adioyning And further to this article hee cannot depose/
To the 5th hee saith that hee was borne neere Saint Katherines dock, and hath [bin GUTTER]<br />
neere thereabout all his life tyme, and thereby well knoweth and [certainly GUTTER]<br />
that there was formerly a fayre sandy ground betweene Saint Katherines sta[[ers gutter]<br />
and Saint Katherines dock on which people at lowe water might and did passage and did<br />
drye foot, and was very commodious to the watermen who plye there<br />
to trim their boates upon, and was frequently made use of by them to that<br />
purpose, and hath bin often used by this deponent to that purpose within th[?e]se<br />
14 yeares last that hee used to trade of a waterman, and was very common GUTTER<br />
for other use to the whole neighbourhood which sandy ground by reason of<br />
the Continuall rideing of many vessells in manner aforesaid there upon the entertynment<br />
of the sayd Ellis, is now utterly spoiled and broken by the sayd vessells, they<br />
being some of them hoyes with ranke keeles which make holes and [some GUTTER]<br />
of them flatt bottomed under which the mudd hath gathered soe that [XXX GUTTER]<br />
it is about knee deepe of mudd in many places to the great [preiudice GUTTER]<br />
and hinderance both of watermen there plyeing and alsoe of the Inhabitants<br />
And further hee cannot depose./
To the 6th hee cannot depose of his certayne knowledge knowing nothing touching the matters [XXX GUTTER]<br />
of his certayne knowledge, but hath heard trhat there was some goods s[XX GUTTER]<br />
by one Mr Mitchell at the sayd Ellis his house which had bin conveyed<br />
thereto out of some vessell that laye at his wharfe or yarde And<br />
further hee cannot depose/
To the 7th hee saith that by reason of soe many vessells lyeing a[brest GUTTER]<br />
at a tyme, and at and neere the sayd Jenkins Ellis his yards or wharfe, b[y GUTTER]<br />
Saint Katherines stayers and the dock, the Currant of the River of T[hames GUTTER]<br />
is there hindered and the strength of the tyde broken soe that a great [XXX GUTTER]<br />
of ooze and dirt is thereby there contracted for And therfore (if not timely<br />
prevented) the river will be thereby much choaked up and preiudiced Th[is hee GUTTER]<br />
knoweth for that hee hath bin a waterman and used to plye at Saint Katherines stayers<br />
neere thereabouts any tyme those fourteene yeares last pas, And<br />
the place where the sayd vessells use to ride soe about to the generall<br />
annoyance and preiudice aforesayd, is within the ebbing and flowing of [the GUTTER]<br />
sea and Jurisdicton of this Court And further hee cannot depose/
To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true./
To the Interrogatories/ [CENTRE HEADING]
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