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<document-start>
1. Saint Catherins staires, neere the wharfe arlate of the said Jenkin Ellis
2. hath often times ˹seene˺ severall vessells at a time lie a brest betweene Saint
3. Catherin's Staires and Saint Catherins dock upon the entertainment and
4. by the leave of the said Ellis, who was commonly accounted to receive
5. hire of the same, namely hee hath sometimes seene fifteene billanders
6. at a time lying there upon the said Ellis his entertainement, and
7. at other times fewer in the place aforesaid at and neere the said
8. Ellis his wharfe, and hee the said Ellis hath received
9. hire or moneys of the masters thereof for their soe lying, as
10. this deponent hath heard severall of the said masters say and
11. acknowledge. And lately a shipp being endeavoured to be brought
12. ashore there to prevent over setting, a flemming that lay [ashore GUTTER]
13. at the said Ellis his wharfe refusing to slack his fast, to make
14. way for the said shipp, one mr Cox that was with this deponent
15. imployed in the bringing the said shipp set ashore, threatened to cutt
16. the fflemings hawser because hee would not make way
17. whereupon the ffleming in this deponents hearing said hee paid
18. Mr Ellis (speaking of and meaning the said Jenkin Ellis)
19. halfe a crowne a weeke ˹for his vessells lying there˺, and therefore praid him not to cutt it
20. And this lying of the said vessells there in that manner, was and
21. is a greate anoyance of the neighbours, and hinderance of the
22. matter of much passion.
23. To the third árticle hee saith that by meanes of severall vessells
24. soe lying abreast within the time aforesaid at and neere the said
25. Jenkins his wharfe ˹upon˺ his entertainment, diverse of the
26. neighbours have had their worth ligter, XXXXXX of office
27. and XXXXXXXX, (that were neere the said Ellis
28. his XXXXX or wharfe) broken downe, and the said neighbours
29. deprived of their XXXX liberties of shipping off or taking
30. in goods at their backsides ˹and XXXXX˺ adioyning the River, their being
31. noe accesse thereunto by lighters by reason of many vessells
32. from time to time soe lying át the said Ellis his wharfe
33. and neere thereunto upon his entertainement, and by meanes
34. of such lyeing of the said vessells, many watermen and lightermen
35. coming upwards against the tide, and comming neere the said wharfe
36. ˹have bin and˺ are enforced to row and keep {well} off against the
37. hart and strength of the currant of the tide before they [ran in GUTTER]
38. XXXX ashore at Saint Catherins staires and thereabouts, to their
39. greate trouble, toile and preiudice. And otherwise hee cannot
40. depose.
41. To the fourth hee saith that they are for the most part ffrench and
42. dutch vessells that soe lie from time to time at the said wharfe
43. of the said Ellis, and the companies thereof use to lie aboard and
44. keep firing in them to dresse their provisions of victuall three or
45. foure candles burining aboard to the greate danger of firing
46. them selves and the houses adioyining.
47. To the fifth hee saith that this deponent hath lived neere thirtie
48. years in Saint Catherins, and hath used the Thames in the imployment
49. <margin value="Bottom right, under main body of text, as lead to next page">a</margin>
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