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To the 5th hee saith hee never sawe the ''Starr frigott'' since hee and the other owners sold her as aforesayd And therefore cannot answere to this Interrogatorie/ To the 6th hee cannot answere/ To the 7th hee verily beleeveth and is fully convinced in his conscience for the reasons in his foregoeing deposition expressed that neither the ''Starr ffrigott'' Interrogate nor any part thereof doth belonge to any Spaniard or fflandrian or other subiect of the King of Spaine And further hee cannot answere/. To the 4th hee saith hee was never any of the Company of the ''Starr ffrigott'' but was an Owner of her as aforesayd before the sale before mentioned And further saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot answere/ Repeated before both Judges in Court the 25th of ffebruary 1656/ P Tho Bludworth [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] ******************************* The 21th day of ffebruary 1656/ [CENTRE HEADING] Matson against Naylor Examined upon the libell./ '''Rp EA. 4us''' '''John Davies''' of Wapping in the parish of Stepney and County of Middlesex Labourer aged thirty sixe yeares or thereabouts a wittnesse sworne and examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet./ To the first article of the sayd allegation hee saith that in the moneths and tyme arlate and especially in the Moneth of May last past the arlate Elizabeth Matson was Commonly reputed the true and lawfull Owner and Proprietor of the lighter arlate and of her appurtenances And further to this article hee cannot depose/ To the 2 3 4th and 5th articles of the sayd libell hee saith that upon the tenth of May last the shipp the ''Mary'' of Ipswich arlate rode at Anchor with River of Thames against New Crane to take in Ballast and rode in a convenient place where shipps use to ride to take in Ballast And the lighter arlate was then and there fast moored to the sayd shipps side, and the labourers on board her (whereof this deponent was one) were heaving ballast out of her into the sayd shipp the ''Mary'' And whilst they were soe doeing a hoye called the ''Thomasin and Alice'' being the vessell arlate came downe the River under sayle in the day tyme about two or three of the Clock in the afternoone of the sayd day the sayd lighter then lying fast moored to the ''Mary'' and Company aboard the sayd shipp ''Mary'', and alsoe those aboard the sayd lighter, and amongst others of them this deponent, seeing the sayd vessell the ''Thomasine'' ''and Alice'' soe coming directly upon them called out to them and desyred them to lowre their sayles and vere to the Southwards and cast out their Anchor thereby to avoide comming fowle of the the sayd shipp the ''Mary'' and
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