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4. die Decembris 1660./: [CENTRE HEADING]
… 4. die Decembris 1660./: [CENTRE HEADING]
Sup Allone predict Examinatus./
'''Rp.'''
'''2.us'''
'''Robert Smith''' de Greenwitch Nauta annos agens<br />
19 aut circiter testis in hac causa productus et<br />
Juratus./
Ad j.um arlum dicta Allonis dicit that the arlate John Absolan<br />
Anthony Deane, Mr Strange and Nathaniel Butler and Company<br />
were the time arlate and before, the true and lawfull owners<br />
of the arlate ship the ''Swanne'' and her tackle apparrell<br />
and furniture and soe Comonly accounted to be, which hee<br />
deposeth for that hee belonged to the said ship about a yeere<br />
before shee was bilged as hereafter is mentioned./
Ad 2. 3. 4. et 5 arlos dicit that about a fortnight before his Sacred<br />
Majestyes happy returne to this City (the time other=<br />
wise hee doth not remember) the said Ship ''Swanne'' then<br />
lying in Tinmouth haven weighed to come out thence<br />
with a lading of Coales for London. and saith a ship<br />
of Brighthampson whereof one Nicholas Payne was master<br />
came next after the said ship ''Swanne'', and coming nere<br />
unto her, and there being a fflemish hoy ahead of the ''Seanne''<br />
soe that her Company durst not make more saile for feare<br />
of being foule of her, the Mate of the said Ship ''Swanne''<br />
called out three times to the said Paine and Company to lower their<br />
sailes, saying that if they did not they would be foule of the<br />
''Swanne'' or to that effect, and the said Paine made answer<br />
that hee would warrant them hee would not be foule of<br />
her, and would not cause his sailes to be lowered, but Imediately<br />
after withall his sailes full at the turning of the bill point becalming the ''Swan'' runne his ships boultspritt into<br />
the middle of the ''Swanns'' mizen shrouds, and thereupon<br />
the Company of the ''Swanne'' (whereof this deponent was then one)<br />
dropped an Anchor, and vered the Cable as much as they<br />
durst for touching the ground but the said Paynes ship<br />
made soe fast upon the ''Swanne'' withall her sailes full (hee<br />
not causing them at all to be lowred) that shee forced the same<br />
[?howe] soe that it could not nor did bring the ''SWan''<br />
up untill shee was runne aground by the said Paynes ship<br />
and saith that the said Paine had roome enough to have<br />
gone on either side of the ''SWanne'', which hee had done or had<br />
caused his sailes to be lowred hee would not (in all probability<br />
and likelihood and as hee verily beleeveth) have bin fouled<br />
of the ''SWanne'', And the said ship ''Wanne'' being soe put a<br />
ground by meanes of the said Paynes shipp runing foule of<br />
her and dragging home her Anchor as aforesaid, the said John<br />
Absolon the master and Company of the ''SWanne'' with the assistance<br />
of severall other men who they got out of another ship, did do<br />
(allt of another ship, did do<br />
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