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1. To the 5th hee saith that if the sayd Otter had carried his sayd
2. shipp and her ladeing into Scarborough as hee might very well
3. have done, hee had without all doubt saved both his shipp and goods
4. and might have had what dammage shee receaved by running fowl of
5. the Samuell repaired there for a small charge And hee saith that hee
6. this deponent heard the sayd Otter lately vizt since the disaster afore-
7. sayde happened counselle and acknowledge that hee did veryly beleeve
8. that if hee had not bilged upon the rock aforesayd hee had sXXX
9. saved both his sayd shipp and goods And therefore and for the
10. reasons in his foregoing deposition declares hee is well assured
11. that what dammage happened to the sayd Otters shipp and
12. ladeing happened through the willfullness or carelessnesse
13. of the sayd Otter and his Company and not through any default
14. of the sayd Lee and his Company of the Samuell And further hee cannot depose./
15. To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true/
16. Repeated before doctor Godolphin
17. Andrew yonge SIGNATURE, RH SIDE
18.
19. The same day
20. Examined on the same allegation
21. John Johnson of Stratford Bow in the County of Essex
22. Mariner aged 45 yeares or thereabouts a wittnes sworne
23. and examined saith and deposeth as following vizt/
24. To the first and second articles of the sayd allegacion hee saith that in the
25. moneth of September last 1656 the arlate William Lee in this shipp the
26. Samuell came in Company of the arlate Otter and his shipp whereof
27. hee was Master from Newcastle and being some to the Northwest of
28. Scarborowe Castle and the winde being Contrary and at south the Samuell
29. stood off, and the sayd Otters shipp standing in, the sayd Otter both
30. waved and called to the Company of the Otter Samuell to goe to the
31. Leewards And thereupon the Master and Company of the Samuell did
32. accordingly put their helme a weather and braced their Mayne sayle
33. and mayne top sayle in the winde and brayles BRAILS their Mizen and used all
34. their utmost endeavour they could to get cleare of the sayd Otters shipp
35. and to prevent receiving any dammage from her or rec doeing any
36. dammage to her which notwithstanding the sayd Otters shipp ranne
37. with full sayle aboard the Samuell and thereby brake downe ˹what foote aft˺ the Samuells
38. stemme XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX and brake her head and her forecastle
39. and three beames in ˹her˺ forecastle and beate downe her fore A 'Y' HAS BEEN SUPERIMPOSED OVER THE 'O'. MISTAKE? hacth to the great
40. endangering of setting the sayd shipp on fyre had not all possible diligence
41. bin used to quench the same and drove downe her upper deck of her
42. forecastle and about two foote of a planke of her fore channell CHAIN-WALE and did her TO DO: CHECK GUTTER
43. much other hurt and dammage soe that her Company had much a doe
44. to keepe her from sinkeing and to prevente her sinkeing were forced to
45. <margin value="Bottom right, below main body of text, as lead to next page">put</margin>

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Summary

Continuation of the case of Lee and Company against Otter, with the second page of testimony of Andrew Yonge and beginning testimony of John Johnson. Concerning a collision at sea

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