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To the 12th hee cannot depose

To the 13th and 14th hee saith hee referreth him selfe to the
Registry of this Court and to his foregoeing deposition and to the lawe and further
cannot depose./

To the 15th hee saith hee beleeveth the arlate Constant is a subiect of this
Commonwealth and subiect to the Jurisdiction arlate and further hee cannot
depose./

To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true./

Repeated before doctor Godolpjin the 27th of 7ber

Willm Smyth [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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The same day [CENTRE HEADING]

Examined upon the sayd libell./

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ffrancis Everet of Burringham in the County of Lincolne
Mariner aged 24 yeares or thereabouts a wittnes sworne
and examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet./

To the first hee saith the arlate George huntington the tyme arlate and before
was and is Master of the shipp William arlate and had the care and charge
of her as Master this hee knoweth having bin one of the sayd shipps company
ever since May last during which tyme the sayd huntington hath gone Master of
her And saith hee is reputed during the sayd tyme to have bin and to be a
part Owner of her And further hee cannot depose/

To the second third fowerth and fifth articles hee saith the sayd shipp William
upon Tuesday the 18th day of this instant September was safely moored at
Tower wharfe on the outside of two other shipps the one of them called the Sarah
and the other hee knoweth not the name of, soe that they lay all three a brest one
of the other and saith hee hath heaard and beleeveth it is not usuall for shipps to lye there any more then three
a brest which notwithstanding hee saith the arlate Nicholas Constant and his Company
did in the night tyme after the sayd eighteenth day came with his shipp the
Waterhound arlate and laye a brest on the outside of the William aforesayd
and fastned two fasts a shoare soe that were then layd fower shipps a brest which this deponent and others of the
shipp William perceiving did as the custome in such cases is put out two
fenders to preserve the shipp William as much as might be from any damage which
might happen to her from the Waterhound, the William being then
on floate and empty and a smale vessell of about forty tonns burthen, and
the Waterhound being a bigger vessell of about sixty tonns and then (as after
wards appeared) laden with Corne And saith that the sayd Constant and company
did in the night tyme next after the sayd Tuesday without giving any notice to the arlate huntington and
company thereof lust his shipp the Waterhound inwards toward the William
soe that her company could use noe endeavour to keepe her cleere of the Water
hound by reason whereof (as the tyde fell away the Water hound leaned
in upon the William and forced her upon the vessell that lay on the inside of
her with such violence that shee caused her to hange above water betweene
the Waterhound and the sayd other vessell on the inside of the William and by
that meanes soe crushed and bruised the Williams dides that shee caused the
[?scare] of her binde to drive in halfe an inche, and broke some of her
mayne plancks and three of her tymbers and did her much other damage
And further saving his subsequent depositions hee cannot depose/

To the 6th hee saith that in the morning after the sayd damage was soe
done the arlate George huntinton having viewed what damage was
done by the meanes aforesayd did in the presence of this deponent and his
contests George Watts and William Smith and others question the sayd Constant