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the sayd Woodfin and soe knoweth hee is generally reputed to bee a very
able seaman And further to this article hee cannot depose/

To the 2 article of the sayd allegation hee saith that upon or about the first of
May last the vessell the Exeter Merchant arlate being returned from a voyage
from parts beyond the seas laden with Currance and Varina Tobaccoe came up
the River of Thames to the lower chayne at Lymehouse where here Company intended
to ride, and at her coming thither the arlate shipp ffrancis and Mary lay there with
her cable fastned to the sayd chayne, and hee saith the tyde being then much
about high water, the Company of the Exeter Merchant could not fasten to the
chaye, wherefore some of the Company went with their boate to the ffrancis
and Mary and when they came neere thereto the
arlate Smith the Captaine of her perceiving that they intended to fasten
a hawser to his chaine called to them, and told them that they should not lye
on board of him, but the sayd shipps
company well knowing (as this deponent beleeveth) that it was a usuall thing for laden shipps to fasten to any
shipp lying in the River of Thames for one tyde for the better
preservation of their ladeing, did notwithstanding the sayd Smith was unwilling
and forbadd them to doe soe, fasten a hawser to the sayd ffrancis and Marys Cable
and hee saith the sayd Smith suffered the same after it was soe fastned to continue
fastned thereto almost an hower, And hee saith that the sayd
hawser being soe fastned Thomas Woodfin commander
of the Exeter Merchant being then on shoare, (and as hee beleeveth observing
the sayd Smiths unwillingnesse to suffer his Company of the Exeter
Merchant to fasten a hawser o his Cable) tooke a boat, and came presently
on board the ffrancis and Mary, and (as this deponent hath heard the sayd Woodfin
saye) did speake to the sayd Smith in a freindly manner and desyre him that
there might be an other fast made to the boltspritt of the ffrancis and Mary that
soe the Exeter Merchant might ride safe till lowe water that shee could make
fast to the chayne, And hee knoweth that it hath bin the custome of the River of
Thames ever since this deponent was a waterman thereof, that a laden shipp coming
into the sayd River might for the securitie of her ladeing make fast to any other
shipp there rideing, for the space of one tyde, although the Company of the shipp
to whome they desyre to make fast, be unwilling to suffer them soe to doe,
and hee saith that this custome is a thing well knowne to most watermen
and sea men who use the River of Thames The premisses hee deposeth for the reasons as aforesayd as alsoe for that hee was onboard the Exeter Merchant [#]

[# LH MARGIN, AT 90 DEGREES]
and imployed to helpe to bring her from Blackwall to the sayd chayne and by that meanes being
an eye witnes to the premisses

and further saving his subsequent
deposition hee cannot depose/

To the third and 4th articles hee saith that while the premisses soe predeposed of
were soe doeing the tyde began to runnwe a stronge ebbe and
the Company of the Exeter Merchant (being necessitated
soe to doe for their preservation) did by helpe of the hawser they had fastned
to the ffrancis and Mary intending to make an other hawser fast to her
Boltspritt or some other part of her, which the sayd Smith perceiving hee did
in an angrie and wilfull manner take a hatchett and contrary to the Custome predeposed of
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