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the said Otters shipp and to avoide doing or receiving dammage to which purpose they bore up the helme with all speede and diligence braced their main saile and maine top saile in the winde, [?brayled] their missen and used all other meanes to the end aforesaid of avoiding dammage, all which hee knoweth being carpenter of the said shipp the ''Samuel'' and then at the helme. To the second article hee saith and deposeth that notwithstanding all the diligence used as aforesaid by the said Lee and company and their bearing up forthwith upon the calling out of the said Otter, yet the said Otters shipp came with full saile and ran aboard the ''Samuel'', and much endangered the sinking of the ''Samuel'' with her lading of coales, and brake the stemme and head of the ''Samuel'', and [XXXXX GUTTER] downe her upper deck and brake three beames of her fore castle, and carried forth two foote of planck under her fore channell, and did her much other dammage; which hee knoweth being present and seeing the same as aforesaid; and saith that by the said Otters shipp soe running aboard and maiming the ''Samuell'' as aforesaid, the said shipp the ''Samuel'' became so leakie that the said Lee and company had much adoe to keepe her floating and were constrained for her preservation to put with her into Scarborough But for the valew of the said dammage or the name of the said Otters shipp hee saith hee knoweth it not. And further hee cannot depose. To the third article hee saith that the said Otters said shipp by her running against the ''Samuel'' having alsoe received some dammage, bore up toward whitby, whereas her master and company might have carried her into the [?Peer] of Scarborough, and have bin there two howers before the running in thither of the said shipp ''Samuel'' and soe have saved her from the disaster which befell her in runninge ashore in Robin Hoods Bay and being there bilged on a rock, And otherwise hee cannot depose saving that whitby was diverse leagues further from the place of such the comming fowle of the said Otters shipp on the ''Samuel'' than Scarborough was, and otherwise hee cannot depose. To the fourth article hee saith that notwithstanding the premisses the said Otter saved all his said shipps masts, sailes, yards, anchor[?s, GUTTER] cables, and boats, and afterwards sold the hull of his shipp for fifteene pounds, and as this deponent was credibly informed he was offered for his coales after the rate of 12 ''d'' for each horse load of the same, And otherwise hee cannot depose. To the fifth hee saith that if the said Otter had carried his said shipp into Scarborough, hee had in all probabilitie have saved her and her goods, and had her bin repaired with a small charge, and this deponent conceiveth the losse and dammage of happened to the said Otters shipp and goods to have soe happened by the meer willfulnes of the said Otter and company, and is well asured that the same happened not by or through any fault of or in the said Lee and company or any of them yeelding [?a reason] of his knowledge, for that hee sawe and tooke notice of the premisses and the circumstances thereof, And otherwise cannot depose./ Repeated before doctor Godolphin John deane [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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