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towards Gravesend and the arlate shipp theMary was then coming up towards
London with the benefitt of the tyde of fludd And hee saith that before the damage
in question happened and while the Mary arlate was to the Northward at a good distance
from the ffreeman but within such a distance as the Company of the Mary
might well heare and understand what was sayd to them some of the Company of the ffreeman
called out to the Company of the Mary arlate and willed them to put their
shipp a stayes and told them if they did not soe doe the same would runne fowle
of the ffreeman, or put her ashoare or to that effect notwithstanding the sayd
shipp Maryes Company though they might then very easily have brought their shipp
a stayes did on the contrarrie beare their mayne topsyle on the back stayes and
put their helme a weather and kept their foresayle full by which course and meanes they
runne a thwart the ffreemans hawse, which they did wilfully (as this deponent
beleeveth for that they might if they had pleased have avoided tunning fowle of
the ffreeman by putting their shipp a stayes, or by steereing her to the
Northward shee being but a smale shipp which might have shoared without any
danger, whereas the ffreeman was a great vessell of above fower hundred tonnes
and drew above sixteene foote water and could not goe neere the shoare without great danger and hazard of the losse of her and her ladeing And this deponent
verily beleeveth and is perswaded in his conscience that what hurt or damage
is happened meerely through the wilfullnes and fault of the Master and Company
of the Mary and not by any fault in the Master and Company of the ffreeman
the premisses hee deposeth being an eye witnes and one of the Company and on board the ffreeman And further to these articles hee cannot depose saving hee saith the ffreeman had
in her the tyme arlate goods to a very considerable value./

To the 4th hee saith hee knoweth not of any Roapes of the Mary cutt by the Company
of the ffreeman but saith if any were it was soe done upon necessitie and for the
preservation of the ffreeman and her ladeing from being runne on shoare by the Mary
And further hee cannot depose

To the last hee saith saving his foregoeing deposition to which hee referreth
hee cannot depose/

To the Interrogatories/ [CENTRE HEADING]

To the first Interrogatorie hee saith hee cometh to testifie of his knowledge in the
cause being requested soe to doe by John Whitty Commander of the ffreeman and
saith hee was Quartermaster of the ffreeman the tyme Interrogate and saith the Mary
runne fowle of the ffreeman in manner predeposed in the forenoone and when the
tyde was about halfe fludd and better And further hee cannot answere/

To the 2 hee saith hee hath receaved all his wages for the voyage Interrogate save 30 s which
hee saith is stopped out of the same and the like out of the wages of others of the sayd
ffreemans Company for tobaccoes which is mentioned in the pursers and boatswaines
booke to be laded in Virginia aboard the sayd shipp and was not found aboard her
at her unladeing here in London And otherwise hee cannot answere having
heard nothing touching any such resolution or declaration as is Interrogate/

To the third hee saith that hee this deponent and Peter Wittie and this deponents contest
George Pu[?tt] Edward Kinge and one John dale and others of the Company of the
ffreeman did call out to the Company of the Mary in manner predeposed (but saith
hee heard not any answere made by the Company of the Mary but observed they still kept on their course And saith the boltspritt
of the ffreeman by the meanes predeposed did breake downe the mayne mast and
spoile some of the rigging of the Mary but to what value hee knoweth not And
further saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot depose./

Repeated before doctor Godolphin

Robert holding [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]