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'''8.''' '''B.2./''' The 4th day of September 1654:- [CENTRE HEADING] Captaine Benjamin Crandley Arthur Bayly and} Companie Owners of the Vessell the ''Margaret''} of which Robert ffox is Master against the} Vessell the ''Mayfflower'' of which William} White was Master, and her Tackle and furniture} and againe the said William White. Suckley} Clements} '''Rp. jus.''' '''Alexander Cocke''' of Wapping wall in the parish of Stepney in the County of Middlesex Mariner aged 52. yeares or thereabouts a Wittnes sworne and examined saith as followeth videlicet. To the first and second articles of the said Allegation hee saith and deposeth, That hee hath knowne the shipp the ''Margarett'' arlate (of which the arlate Robert ffox was and is Commander) for all the time arlate videlicet since the moneth of September in the yeare 1653. arlate, and saith That for all that time the arlate Benjamin Crandley Arthr Bailey and Companie were and are commonly and generally knowne and observed to bee the true and Lawfull Owners and Proprietors of the said shipp the ''Margarett'' and of her tackle apparrell and furniture, And saith That in or about the moneths of September and October 1653. last Past the said Vessell having beene graved and hauled of from the wayes of Mr Tailor the shippwright neare Wapping staires, was fastned and moored to the Vessell called the ''Sea='' ''horse'' arlate, and there for severall daies ridd well moored and cleare of any other shipps whatsoever, and so was knowne and observed to be by divers seamen and Mariners The premises hee knoweth having belonged to the said shipp as Gunner thereof for all the time predeposed, and being aboard and seeing the mooreing and fastening of the said shipp as aforesaid And further hee cannot depose:-/ To the 3. and 4th articles hee saith, That the said Vessell the ''Margaret'' having so ridd as aforesaid for about fourteene daies as this deponent remembreth the Vessell the ''May flower'' arlate, whereof the arlate William White was Commander came and was by the said White and Companie moored or fastned to a certaine Vessell whereof one Wall was then Commander then lying a little below the said Vessell the ''Margaret'', and having so ridd for some few daies, the said Mr Wall and Companie fetchd their anchors on board in order to proceed upon a Voyage, and this deponent saith, That at or about the beginning of the moneth of November .1653. last past the said shipp the ''May flower'' by the negligence and carelessnes of the said Captaine White and Company, (who of this deponents sight and knowledge had (sometimes
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