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To the first Position of the said Libell hee saith and deposeth that for and during all the moneth of december 1658 and before and since, the said Libellate John Miller was Master and Partowner of the Libellate ship the ''John'' ''and Catherin''. and soe Commonly accounted and reputed The Premises hee deposeth for that hee hath (off and on) belonged to the said ship for seaven yeeres last And further cannot depose./: To the 2d hee saith that at such time as the dammage in question was done, the Lilate [BLANK IN MANUSCRIPT] Elliot and alsoe one Risby were on board the Lilate ship the ''Coast ffrigot'' as her Company acknowledged but which of them was the master of her then hee cannot certainely tell, but beleeveth the said Risby was her then Master for that hee went the said time from Gravesend Master of her: And further cannot depose./. To the 3d and 4th Positions of the said Libell hee saith that in the said moneth of december 1658. and before the damage in Question happened the said ship the ''John and Katherin'' lay safe moored in the Roade of Gravesend, and had lay (sic) moored there in safety for about two dayes space before the Damage in Question happened And saith that during the time the said ship lay moored in the said Place, namely in the morning of a Saturday happening in the said moneth of December 1658 being as this Deponent remembreth the Eighteenth day of the said moneth. the said ship the ''Coast ffrigot'' fell foule of the said ship the ''John'' ''and katherine'', and came with her midships, athwart the Hause of the ''John and Katherine'', the ''Coste ffrigotts'' Topsailes being halfe mast downe lying at the mast and her foresaile lying at the mast hauled up in the Brailes, and had never an Anchor downe that brought her up. And the ''Coste ffrigot'', (missing the Boltsprit of the ''John and Katherine'',) broke the head of the ''John and Katherine'' Cleere away, and the same was utterly lost, And broke her best bower Cable; by which shee roade, and Carried the said ship ''John and Katherin'' foule of a Cable belonging to a ship called the ''Grayhound'' there Ryding. and to cleere her from the said Cable some of the ''John'' ''and katherines'' Company were forced to cut and did cut their other Cable that was out, about two or three fathoms from the Anchor. The Premisses hee deposeth being the said time mate of the said ship and on board her, and an Eye Witnes of the Premisses and helping to Cleere and new Moore the said ship ''John and'' ''Katherin'': And further cannot depose./
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