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of the rest of the Company of the ''Prosperous'' who were on board the ''King David'' and appointed to bring her to London did sell the severall parcells of goods hereafter specified to the severall persons hereafter named for the severall values following videlicet hee soe sold to John Cotterell of Scarborowe Mariner three drye fatts of Muscovia skinnes (every dry fatt conteyning twenty five dozen) at the rate and for the price of twenty two shillings fr each dozen amounting in the whole to eighty two pounds tenn shillings sterling And that in like manner hee sold unto William ffaucett of Sunderland ffitter twenty two dozen of the like skinnes at the rate and for the price of twenty two shillings a dozen which amounted in the whole to twenty fower pounds fower shillings All which skinnes soe sold to the sayd Cotterell and ffawcet hee saith were all of them stowed betweene the decks of the ''King david'' And further to this Interrogatorie hee cannot depose Will Bing [CENTRE HEADING] ************************* The 4th of October 1655/ [CENTRE HEADING] Mabb against Greene ffrancklin Smith Examined upon an allegation given in by Mr Smith the second day of October 1655 '''Smith}''' '''Greene}''' '''John South''' of Wapping in the parish of Stepney and County of Middlesex Mariner Gunner of the ffrigott the ''hector'' aged 44 yeares or there= abouts a wittnes sworne and examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet To the first and second articles of the sayd allegation hee saith hee well knoweth that about the fifteenth day of September one thousand sixe hundred fifty fower the arlate henry Mabb was then Master of the ''hector ffrigott'' arlate and that shee then laye at Anchor in the River of Thames a little belowe a place called dikes shoare in Lymehouse way And saith hee this deponent being then Gunner aboard the sayd ffrigott and perceiving that divers Colliers were comeing up the River laden did according as the custome of the sayd River in such cases is goe to reare the sayd ffrigott the ''hector'' asterne that the Collyers shipps might sayle cleere of the sayd ffrigott, but the sayd henry Mabb speaking to this deponent sayd meddle with what you have to doe with all and would not suffer this deponent nor any of the rest of the company of the sayd ffrigott to reare her a sterne, by which meanes hee saith one of the Colliers shipps who were soe coming upladen came aboard the ''hector'' arlate and brake her head and sterne and the head of the mayne topp maste And hee alsoe saith that upon the 18th day of October 1654 the sayd ffrigott ''hector'' being then rideing at the Isle of Wight and the sayd henry Mabb being then Master, and hee this deponent gunner of her hee this deponent spake to the sayd Mabb and told him it would be necessarie that the sayd frigott were heaved neerer the shoare uut of the tyde but the sayd Mabb would not suffer her soe to be heaved by meanes whereof when the tyde ranne stronge the force thereof caused the sayd frigott to breake the stake to which the hawser iof the ffrigott was made fast to on shoare, and soe the sayd ffrigott brake loose and fell fowle of an other shipp lying neere and brake her the sayd ''hectors'' Mizen Maste and quarter by which severall willfull defaultes of the sayd mabb the ''hector'' was damnified in manner predeposed but to what value hee cannot depose And further to these articles hee cannot depose To the third hee saith the sayd Mabb did as Master of the sayd ffrigott undertake to Navigate her to Bilboe and did with much hazard of her mens lives bringe her thither, and saith such hazard was occasioned by the sayd Mabbs unskillfullnesse of the coast thereabouts, and hee saith the sayd Mabbs unskillfullnesse did plainly
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