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deponent well heard and observed And furth … deponent well heard and observed And further cannot depose:-
To the 4th hee saith, That notwithstanding the said calling and crying out<br />
of his said precontest and the other Cooper, (which hee saith hee is fully<br />
assured the said Pomroy or Companie then aboard his said lighter could<br />
not but heare, and that for that they or some of them made some grumbling<br />
answer which this deponent did not distinctly understand nor doeth at<br />
present remember they carelessly veered and first fell fowle upon and<br />
split and sunke a boat belonging to a ship whereunto the said Tailors<br />
lighter was moored, and afterwards fell fowle and broke the<br />
said Lighters hawser and putt her a drift, whereupon this deponent<br />
betooke himself into the next lighter wherein hee was employed as<br />
Cooper as aforesaid, and thereby well saw and observed the premisses<br />
And further cannot depose:-
To the 5th hee saith, That whilen this deponent was on board the said<br />
Tailors lighter all the said wynes aboard here were in a safe and<br />
good condition, as this deponent well observed, but after the disaster<br />
aforesaid the said lighter with wynes driving nere to Limehouse<br />
and coming the next flood to Buttolphs wharfe againe<br />
to unlade, this deponent went aboard her, and saw and observed<br />
that one of the pipes of wine aboard her were staved, and the wyne<br />
runn out and lost to the said Mr Travers the reputed Owner thereof<br />
being worth in this deponents judgement and estimation about 30 ''li'' and so<br />
much a pipe of such wine was and could bee then usually<br />
sold for, and the damage aforesaid this deponent firmely beleeveth to<br />
have come by no other meanes, but by the breaking of the hawser and<br />
falling fowle of Pomroys Lighter upon the said Tailors Lighter as<br />
predeposed. And further cannot depose:-/
Repeated with his precontest<br />
before doctor Godolphin./
John Bonnett [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 25th of July 1655/ [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined upon the sayd Libell./
'''Rp. 3'''
'''Thomas Peacock''' of the parish of Saint Buttolphs Billingsgate<br />
London Cittizen and Grocer of London aged 26 yeares or thereabouts<br />
a witness sworne and examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet/
To the first and second articles of the sayd libel hee saith that in or<br />
about the moneth of January last past the arlate Giles Travers<br />
did cause severall pipes of Canarie to be taken out of the arlate shipp<br />
the ''John and Mary'' lying then at or neare Rederiff arlate, to<br />
be laden and put aboard a certayne lighter whereof the arlate Thomas<br />
Taylor was Master which wines were (the tyme predeposed) brought safely<br />
in the sayd lighter to Buttolphs wharfe arlate, and there safely [?XXX]<br />
with, and there safely [?XXX]<br />
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