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To the 10th hee saith if the tyde be soe farr spent as it was when the Exiter Merchant came to the lower chayne at Lymehouse ) it is in such cases more frequent for laden shipps to fasten to other shipps which they find moored or rideing by a chayne and XXXX thereon(?) and there to ride till the next tyde, then it is for them the tyde being soe spent to endeavour to lye at an Anchor of their owne And further to this Interrogatorie hee cannot answere.
To the 11th hee saith hee beleeveth if the damage Interrogate were done through the want of judgment or through the carelessnesse and default of the Master and Company of the Exeter Merchant thus(?) the sayd Master and his Company ought to beare their severall proportions thereof, and saith hee beleeveth the Custome to bee soe that they by whose neglect a damage comes ought to beare the damages, And saith hee this deponent is now of the Company of the Exeter Merchant and therefore not lyable to any part thereof by what meanes soe ever it came And further to this Interrogatorie hee cannot answere.
To the 12th hee answereth negatively.
To the 13th hee saith hee hath bin on board the shipp Exeter Merchant since the damage by him predeposed was repayred, and thereby knoweth the same is repaired, and hath heard and beleeveth the same was repayred at the charge of the Master and Owners of her, and saith hee sawe noe money paid for the sayd repayres And further cannot answere.
To the 14th hee saith hee knoweth there have bin other repayres done to the Exeter Merchant besides the repair of the damage by him this rendent predeposed of, but what the same amount unto, or whether they be distinguished from the repaires of the damage predeposed of hee knoweth not for that hee hath not seene nor is privie to the Accompts touching the same And therefore cannot further answere.
To the last hee saith hee hath satisfied the contents thereof in his foregoing deposition.
Repeated before Doctor Godolphin

                                                                                                           Robert Dennis(?)
                                                                 The 28th 0f August 1655
                                            Examined upon the sayd allegation
                                       James Merrit of Lymehouse in the parish(?) of Stepney
                                       County of Middlesex Waterman aged 48 yeares or thereabouts
                               a witnesse sworne and examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicit

To the first article of the sayd allegation hee saith hee hath knowne the arlate Thomas Woodfin for about these twenty yeares last past during all which tyme hee saith hee hath bin commonly reputed an able and well experienced seaman, and hee knoweth that hee hath gone Commander of the Exeter Merchant divers voyages and knoweth hee hath had the care of shipps as Master of them committed to him for these five or six yeares last past, this hee deposeth having bin a Waterman for these 27 yeares and for a great part thereof hath bin a neere neighbour

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