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and he saith that accordingly he this deponent and
the sayd Perryman did on or about the tenth day of
January last past goe a board the sayd shipp, and
that upon viewing the sayd shipps lading they did find
that some of her lading had received damage, but
he saith and deposeth that the said damage did come
and happen unto the sayd goods by extremity of
fowle weather, and not by the default or negligence of the sayd
Page or any of the Shipps Company, nor of any
insufficiency of the sayd shipp, and he saith that it
did appeare unto this deponent that the weather she had
mett with in her voyage arlate was soe foule that
a longer of wines (though well stowed) had stashed
almost two foote, And further hee cannot depose

To the rest he is not examined by order of the party
producent./

Repeated before
doctor Godolphin./.

Phillip Ewers [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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The 14th of October 1656.

[GUTTER X]opley and others against the ffreeman}
and against Phillips, delaval}
Suckley Smith}

Exámined upon the allegation

Rp. .j.

Richard Cawcot of Aldborough in Suffolk Mariner
aged 50 yeeres or thereabouts sworne and examined,

To the first article of the sayd allegation he deposeth and
saith that he the deponent was one of the Company and aboard
the Shipp the Mary arlate when the damage arlate was
done unto her by the shipp the ffreeman arlate and that
the place is calld Galliats reach (which is a little below
Woolwich) where the sayd damage was done, and that the
same is a spatious and broad place, and that he very well
knoweth (by then being aboard her) that the Mary was comming
up the River, and the ffreeman soe comming downe with the wind
did call to the Company of the ffreeman, and that the
Mary did endeavour all that she could to avoyde the ffreeman
and to that purpose the Mary did leave the Channell and
turne her towards the South shoare, soe that there was roome
enough for the ffreeman to have past by the Mary without
doing or receiving any damage, if she had pleased, The
premisses he deposeth because he was a board during the
passages predeposed, the sayd shipp the Mary And
further he cannot depose./

To the second article, that the arlate vessell the {M}ary
did goe as neare the shoare as possibly she could to avoyd
the ffreeman ánd that she steerd her best course in all
probability to have avoyded the ffreeman, And that {not}withstanding
all