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| − | ==HCA13/126==
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| − | //The 10:th day of July 1652//
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| − | /7Repeated before//
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| − | //D:r ?Clerk one of//
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| − | //the Judgesxr//
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| − | //The personall answers of//
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| − | //Thomas May made to the p:rmised//
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| − | //posicons of an allegation given//
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| − | //against him on the behalfe of//
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| − | //?Savery as followeth//
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| − | //To the first and second positions he answereth//
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| − | //and beleiveth that hee this respondent had upon//
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| − | //the day aclate (beinge the eighteenth day of//
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| − | //December 1651) his lighter called the//
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| − | //''Mayflower'' fast moored in the river of//
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| − | //Thames neere lower Chalke wharfe about//
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| − | //halfe a mile from Gravesend over a certayne//
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| − | //racke that was there suncke in the said River//
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| − | //for y:e weighing up of Ordinance and Iron//
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| − | //out of the said Shippe or Rack which said//
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| − | //lighter did (as hee beleiveth) lye neere two//
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| − | //stones throwe from y:e Kentish side and soe//
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| − | //farr from the Essex side that neere twenty//
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| − | //Shipps on breast might in faire and good//
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| − | //weather (as he beleeveth) have passed by//
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| − | //without doinge or receivinge and damage//
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| − | //and upon y:e Kentish side about foure Shipps//
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| − | //might have passed on breast betweene y:e//
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| − | //shoare and the said lighter the river beinge//
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| − | //in that place (as he beleiveth) neere a mile//
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| − | //in breadth and the bancks of y:e river in and//
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| − | //about that place are soe absolutely steepe that//
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| − | //there is noe shelvinge nor wast ground as hee//
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| − | //hath observed and beleeveth and this respondent//
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| − | //did generally imploy seaven or eight men to//
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| − | //worke on board the said lighter for the weighing//
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| − | //of the said Ordnance and Iron and one//
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| − | //man constantly to bee and lye on board her//
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| − | //or soe neere on shoare that hee might bee//
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| − | //within sight of the said lighter and looke to//
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| − | //the same, and this respondent beleiveth the//
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| − | //said lighter did ride in such a place over the//
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| − | //said Racke where Shipps did and might//
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| − | //usually passe unlesse they were of very great//
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| − | //burthen and the water lowe and they in//
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| − | //regard of the said Sunck vessell or racke//
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| − | //they could not passe without very great//
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| − | //danger as he beleiveth and he beleiveth that//
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| − | //at the tyme of the said Shippe y:e ''Mary''//
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| − | //runne against the said lighter there was not//
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| − | //any person on board, but those employed by this//
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| − | //respondent were gone on shoare to a house very//
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| − | //neere the place where the said lighter did lye//
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| − | //where they had their dyet and, a good distance//
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| − | //before the said Shippe came neere to the said//
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| − | //lighter some of the said persons employed upon y:e//
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| − | //same did see the said Shippe and call to the//
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| − | //company thereof as he beleiveth wishinge//
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| − | //them to take heed of the said lighter as hee//
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| − | //beleeveth, yet notwithstandinge the company//
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| − | //of the same out of carlesnesse or wilfulnesse//
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| − | //as he beleiveth did ranne against the said//
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| − | //lighter & broake her from her Mooringes//
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| − | //though there was roome for twenty Shipps//
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| − | //as aforesaid to have gon on the one side//
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| − | //& foure on the other all on breast//
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| − | //without doinge or receivinge any damage//
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| − | //as he beleeveth and did carry her away at//
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| − | //least two or three miles as hee beleiveth by//
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| − | //w:ch this repdent was very much damnified as//
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| − | //he beleiveth and otherwise he doth not beleeive the//
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| − | //said posicon to bee true in any parte//
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