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On the 21th of September 1655. [CENTRE HEADING] Cary and Company Owners of the} ''Sisters'' against the shipp the ''Desire''} and against John Jackson and Comapny} Suckly Allen Cheeke} Upon the allegation given in admitted on the behalfe of Jackson and Company./ '''1)''' '''Giles Nicholls''' of Sheilds in the Bishopwricke of Durham Mariner, where he hath lived these 20ty yeares or thereabouts aged about 50ty yeares, a wittnes produced and sworne and being examined he deposeth as followeth./ To the first article of the said allegation he deposeth and saith. That he the deponent was Masters Mate of the articulate shipp the ''Desire'' on the fourth day of ffebruary last past, and on board her when the said shipp was bound in for Tinmouth haven to take in her lading of Coales there, and that the sayd shipp being come about halfe way within the barr, the winds were soe strong and crosse that the sayd shipp could be gott noe further into the sayd haven, and that therefore the Master and Company of her were forced and did for preservation of the said shipp cast anchor there, and did there ride by her Anchors and cables for two tides being about the space of 24 hourers, The premisses he deposeth, for that he being Masters Mate of her and aboard her all the said time did well knowe the premisses predeposed to be true And further he cannot depose. To the second article he deposeth and saith that of his certaine knowledge living at Sheilds many yeares, and having made many voyages into Tinmouth havern arlate, the place where the sayd shipp the ''Desire'' did ride at Anchor, is an usuall place for shipps to cast anchor and there to ride when crosse winds lett them from comming in further to the said haven, And that there was roome and space enough for the shipp the ''Sisters'' arlate to have passed by her the shipp the ''Desire'' without comming neere unto or hazarding her The premisses he deposeth for that he being Masters Mate and aboard her when the sayd shipp did soe ride at Anchor did see at least 20ty shipps passe by the said shipp the ''Desire'' in the very same tide before the ''Sisters'' came and fell foule of her, And further he cannot depose. To the third article, he deposeth and saith That he the deponent being aboard the arlate shipp the ''Desire'' as is predeposed did perceive that the sayd shipp the ''Sisiters'' in her sayling out of Tinmouth with a fresh gale of wind did come directly against or towards the sayd shipp the ''Desire'', and that therupon he the deponent did call out to the Company of the shipp the ''Sisters'', and aske them
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