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Ad 6:um rendit That the Betty was never a head but asterne of the
Red fortune untill after the foresaid falling fowle and sath that hee
heard noe such calling out or answering as is interraze although hee was
upon the Deck of the Red fortune the said time helping to keepe her cleare
that the Betty might not come fowle of her, and saith that the Red fortunes
Topsaile was not the said time lowered, and was but about three quarters
of a yard about the [?capp] and hee denieth that the Red fortune [?ranne]
fowle of the Betty but saith that the Betty ran foule of the Red fortune
as hee hath before deposed et alr nescit [?deponere]

Ad 7:um rendit That after the said ships were foule the Master and Company
of each of them did [?questionbly] apprehend much danger, and called to
one another to do severall things to get cleare and saith that the Betty
ran w:th her boltspritt against the quarter of the Red fortune and thereby
presently broke her boltsprit, and upon the breaking of it shee got cleare but
had not her boltsprit broke shee would have gone ashore with the
Red fortune as hee beleeveth et alr pro pte sua nescit

Repetit coram Dup Jura[?XX] in [?Cuera]./

signum di [HIS MARKE] William Atkinson

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9:° die mensis May 1667./

Sup Allone XXX Examinat:

5:us

Jacobus Baert de North Yarmouth in
Comitatu Norfolrice Nauta in [?XXX] the Red fortune
annos agens 35 aut ciciter dicit et deponit prout
sequitur videlicet.

Ad primus aclum deponit That hee this deponent knoweth the arlate
ship the Red fortune and is Master of her and soe hath bin for allmost
two yeeres last past and so accounted to be and saith that hee was put and constituted Master of
her by the arlate Abraham Stayard who hath bin during all the
said time and still is the true and lawfull and sole owner of her and of
her tackle apparell and furniture, and for and as owner of her hee
was and is commonly accounted and reputed, and saith that hee alsoe knoweth
the arlate ship the Betty and sawe her at Billensgate the voyage
before the disaster hereunder mentioned happened and saith that that the time of the
said disaster the arlate John Modder was Master of her and soe accounted
et alr nescit.

Ad 2um 3um 4um et 5um arles dra Allegationis deponit et dicit That
about one or two of the Clock in the afternoone of Saturday the 23d of
March Last past the said ship the Red fortune (coming from the Northwards
the said ship Betty coming from the southwards) were sayling to get into Yarmouth
harbour or Haven. the Red fortune being a head of the Betty, and saith
that hee this deponent who was then onboard the sd shop Red fortune [?perceiving]
that the Betty was fetching up the Red fortune and came closer and [?XXX]
to her in a dangerous manner hee this deponent edged the Redfortune
to the North[?ward] to keepe cleare of the Betty which was to the southward
of the Red fortune, and hee this deponent alsoe called out to the Master and Company
of the Betty who were within hearing to keepe off from him [?telling ?them]
that he would be onboard [?him] and doe him damage and desired them to [?beare]
[?XXX]or keepe to the southward that the Red fortune and Betty might goe cleare or to that
[?effect]