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Transcription

The 27th of September 1655 [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined upon the sayd libell

4 US

George Watts of Butterwick in the County of Lincolnshire
Mariner aged 21 yeares or thereabouts a witnesse sworne
and examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicit.

To the first article he saith that the arlate George Huntington in and during the
moneth of September arlate and before was and is Master of the arlate ship the William
this hee knoweth being one of the sayde shipps company and saith hee was and is
commonly accompted part Owner of her during the sayd tyme and further hee cannot depose./

To the second third 4th and 5th articles of the sayd libell hee saith hee this deponent
being one of the Company thereof and on board well knoweth that the shipp William
arlate was upon Tuesday the eighteenth of this instant September safely moored at
Tower Wharfe outermost of two other shipps videlicit a Shipp called the Sarah an other
vessel whose name he knoweth not soe that they lay all three a brest one of an other and
saith it is not usuall for shipps to lye there more than three a brest which notwithstand
ing hee saith the arlate Nicholas Constant and his Company did in the night tyme
next after the eighteenth day come with his ship the Waterhound arlate and
laye her alsoe a brest on the outside of the William aforesaid soe that then there
were fower shipps there lying abrest which the Company of the William perceiving
ffrancis ?Thaerat? And William Smith hee of her Company did as the custome in such
cases is put out their fenders to preserve the William as much as might be from any
damage which might happen to her by the meanes of the Waterhounde, (the William
being then a floate and empty and but a small vessell of about forty tonnes and
the waterhound being a larger vessell of about threescore tonnes or better and
(as afterwards appeared) then laden with Coins And he alsoe saith the sayd
Master of the Waterhound and her Company did in the night tyme next after the
sayd Tuesday the 18th of that instant September and without any notice given to the Master and Company of the William
aforesayd left his sayde Shipp the Waterhound inward towards the William,
soe that the williams Company could not use any meanes to keepe her
above of the Waterhounde, by which meanes as the tyde fell away the Water
hound leaned in forcibly upon the william, and forced her soe upon the vessell
that laye on the inside of her that the William hunge above water betweene
the waterhound and the sayd inside vessell, by meanes whereof the sides of
the William were sore bruised and crushed and the scare of her binde started and
driven in about half an inche, and three of her mayne tymbers broken, and her
seeleings broken up, and five of her butt heads started and indeede soe
crushed and bruised thereby that had not her mayne beame and knees bin very
stronge she had bin crushed (as the deponent beleeveth) both sides together.
And further saving his subsequent deposition hee cannot depose./

To the 6th hee saith that the next morning after the sayd damage done in the manner
aforesaid the arlate George Huntington perceiving and seeing what damage
was done to his ship the william aforesaid by the meanes aforesayd
did in the presence and hearing of this deponent and his contest ffrancis ?ThXXX and Thomas
Reedman of ?XX the arlate Nicholas Constant which hee had lufted his shipp
waterhounde and leaned her upon the william and told him hee had
done her much dammage and hurt thereby, or to that effect to which the sayd
Constant replyed in presence and hearing of this deponent and the sayd wittnesses that hee
came thither purposely with intente to lay his shipp the waterhound there and
to give her a luft inwards, and alsoe sayd hee cared not though hee had sunke the
william, and that hee would not give him two pence satisfaction if he had sunke her
or