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1. The 14th of May 1657
2. <margin value="Left">Betts and others against the Prince}
3. Smith Cheeke.}</margin>
4. Exámined upon the libell.
5. <margin value="Left">Rp. .j.</margin>
6. Thomas Sinnet of the parish of Saint Buttolphs
7. Algate Mariner, aged 40 yeares or thereabouts
8. sworne and exámined.
9. To the first hee saith hee well knoweth the shipp the White lilly
10. arlate and alsoe the producents Patrick Betts and Anthony ffernandez
11. who (with their company) were the time arlate and commonly accounted the
12. owners and proprietors of the said shipp, tackle and furniture, whereof
13. the said Betts was the said time master and commander of this deponents
14. knowledge who was then one of her company.
15. To the second, third and fourth ˹and 5th˺ articles hee saith that the said shipp that
16. White lilly was in the said time namely in Aprill now last past well
17. and sufficiently moored in a safe and convenient place neare horsey downe
18. where shipps doe usually and ordinarily ride, and then lay and remained
19. moored two dayes space or thereabouts before the shipp the Prince arlate
20. came and arived there, in all which time the shipp white lilly had
21. neither donne or received hurt or dammage for or from any other shipp
22. or vessell; but after shee had soe ridd and bin moored for the said
23. space the said shipp the Prince came and was by her master and company
24. brought to an anchor very neere and fowle of the White lillies
25. moorings, and soe that shee grounded upon the White lillies cable
26. and upon the tide of flood drove aboard her, and put her from her
27. moorings and drove her athwart the pXXXXie, and thereby
28. necessitated the master and company of the White lilly to cut their
29. cable, to get her cleare of the Anchor of the Prince. All which
30. hee knoweth being one of the lillies company and then on board her
31. And saith the premisses being soe happened and the master and company
32. of the white lilly having moored ˹or fastened˺ her to the said chaine, the said shipp
33. Prince came there ....... of her againe ˹soe dangerously on˺, whereupon ˹that shee˺ shee loosed thense
34. and came to ...... ˹her former˺ moorings againe, yet still the Prince being moored in
35. an undue manner, came ...... fowle of her, and put her ashore
36. and lay upon her cable a tide or two, and this shee did notwithstatnding
37. that the said Betts master of the White lilly (while shee was
38. fastened to the said chaine) went aboard the Prince and admonished
39. her master and company of the danger and of the wrong they did
40. his shipp by theirs driving up and downe every tide in an unfittXX GUTTER
41. manner; And saith that upon such last comming of the Prince fowle of the
42. White lilly, the White lillyes company were forced (to avoide greater
43. dammage) to neere a shore, in which ˹their shipp˺ grating ashore shee broke a peece
44. of her false keele, and their shipp Prince then lay upon her the
45. lillies cable and much damnified the same, and the said shipp
46. lillie was much damnified by the said comming fowle of the Prince
47. upon her anchor cable, all which hee knoweth being present and seeing
48. the same soe happen. And saith this deponent asked one of the Princes company
49. ˹why they did not make fast their shipp, had said they had noe anchors to fasten her with˺
50. To the sixth hee saith the said Patrick Betts was fXXXX and forced to XXXXX to
51. hire men to assist his company to moore his shipp from
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