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when seized upon by order of the sayd Mrs … when seized upon by order of the sayd Mrs Ewens, to see how farr distant the<br />
same was from the sayd Mrs Ewens her wharfe, and accordingly<br />
this deponent and the sayd Ryder Noades Palmer Jones Markature and<br />
others went, and the place where the sayd Pryors lighter and lightermen<br />
worked when shee was soe seized being showed unto this deponent<br />
and the rest of the surveyors aforesayd by the sayd Jones and Mark=<br />
ature (as they affirmed notice of the place where shee then lay at worke)<br />
this deponent and the sayd Ryder Nodes Jones Markature and the<br />
sayd Palmer, (in presence of the sayd Pryor and others) did measure,<br />
and found by measure that the place where the sayd Pryors lightermen<br />
were digging ballast at such tymes as the sayd lighter as soe seized,<br />
was and is two hundred sixty three foote distant from the sayd<br />
Mrs Ewens her sayd ballast wharfe, and that the Channell or hole<br />
where the sayd Pryors lighter then worked is pa[r]ted by a firme<br />
banke or shelfe of nynty three foote broad from an other hole or<br />
channel of fifty fower foote broad digged neerer the sayd<br />
Ewens her wharfe, which hole or channell of fiftie fower foote broad<br />
was and is (as the sayd Jones Markature and other watermen who<br />
usually digg ballast affirmed) a Channell or hole wherein the lighter<br />
men imployed by the sayd mrs Ewens, and by her husband in his<br />
life tyme did and doe use to digg ballast, and alsoe found by measure<br />
that the sayd Channell or hold digged by the ballast men imployed<br />
by the sayd Mrs Ewens and her husband (which lyes neerere shoare<br />
then the sayd Pryors Channell by the sayd banke of nynty<br />
three foote broade and the breath of the sayd Ewens her Channell which is<br />
fifty fower foote broade,) is not withstanding distant from the sayd<br />
Mrs Ewens her wharfe one hundred and sixteene foote, for that<br />
as a foresayd, the place where (as the sayd Jones and Markature affirmed the<br />
sayd Pryors lighter lay at worke when seized) is distant from the sayd<br />
Mrs Ewens her wharfe two hundred sixty three foote as aforesayd, And<br />
further to those articles hee (being noe waterman nor ballast man)<br />
cannot depose./
To the 5th and sixth 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 periurie being fully<br />
declared unto him as the Interrogatorie requireth) hee saith hee for his<br />
part is noe low waterman, nor lighter man, nor was ever imployed about<br />
takeing up of ballast nor hath any share in any lighters of the sayd Pryors<br />
orlighters of the sayd Pryors<br />
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