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to which statute he for more certaynetye h … to which statute he for more certaynetye hee referreth him selfe And<br />
further to this article hee cannot depose./
To the 2 third and 4th articles of the said allegation hee saith that for those<br />
fower yeares last past, hee this deponent (having often occasion to<br />
passe over the same by water to Gravesend and Greenwich and<br />
other places which lye belowe the same) thereby knoweth that during that tyme<br />
there hath bin and is a shelve or banke of Gravell in the River of<br />
Thames opposite to the wharfe of the arlate Mrs Ewen the Complainant in<br />
this suite, where on, hee hath as hee passed to and froe, observed and<br />
seene that Lightermen have used to worke and take up ballast, And<br />
saith that a difference happening betweene the sayd Mrs Ewen and the<br />
producent Pryor about the sayd Pryors servants digging ballast upon<br />
the sayd shelve or banke, and the sayd mrs Ewen (as this deponent was<br />
informed by his Contests Thomas Jones and Edward Markature who (as<br />
they sayd) were present when the sayd seizure was made) seizing upon the<br />
sayd Pryors lighter for working there and carrying the same away to her<br />
sayd wharfe and deteyning the same from the sayd Pryor, the sayd Pryor<br />
did desyre this deponent and John Orton and William Nodes to<br />
measure the grounds from the sayd Mrs Ewens her wharfe to the place<br />
where the sayd Jones and Markature did affirme the sayd ˹Pryors˺ lighter laye<br />
at worke when shee was soe seized by the sayd Mrs Ewen, and upon<br />
this deponents word the sayd Nodes and Orton their<br />
measuring the same in presence of the sayd Jones and Markature and<br />
severall other persons, this deponent and the sayd Nodes and Orton did finde, that the place where the<br />
sayd Jones and Markature did affirme the sayd Pryors lighter lay at<br />
worke takeing up ballast when shee was seized as aforesayd, was two hundred sixty-three<br />
foote distant from the wharfe of the sayd Mrs Ewen, And that the Channell<br />
or hole where the sayd Pryors servants did worke when the sayd<br />
lighter was soe seized was parted with a firme banke<br />
of nynty three {foote} broad from the hole or Channell where the sayd Mrs Ewens her servants<br />
with her lighters and the sayd Mrs Ewens husbands servants in his life tyme<br />
used (as the sayd Jones and Markature affirmed) to worke, and that the sayd Master<br />
and Mrs Ewens their hole or Channelll was fifty fower foote in breadth and laye neerer<br />
to the sayd wharfe than the sayd Pryors Channell did, videlicet within one<br />
hundred and sixteene foote of the sayd wharfe And further to these articles<br />
hee cannot depose./
To the 5th and 6th articles hee cannot depose./
To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true/
To the Interrogatories/ [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first Interrogatorie (the danger of periury being declared unto him<br />
asury being declared unto him<br />
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