HCA 13/72 f.650r Annotate

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Judgeth her to bee about two hundred tonnes And saith the shipp Susan the
tyme Interrogate lay in such a place where other shipps
did and doe usually ride at Anchor./

To the third and 4th hee saith it was about three quarters fflood when the Warwell
came first to an Anchor at the palce where she was dammaged neere
Wapping dock, And further saving her foregoeing deposition hee
cannot answere/

To the 5th and 6th Interrogatories hee saith hee was on board the Warwell when the
dammage in question happened, and was not on shoar, but continued
on board her from the tyme of her first comming to an Anchor untill
after the dammage in question was done, And further cannot answere/.

To the 8th hee saith hee did not heare of any of the Company of the Susan
Interrate speake ought to the effect Interrogate, and well knoweth that
there was noe buoy to the Anchor of the Susan wherein the Warwell
bilged as aforesayd, either at the tyme the Warwell came first to
an Anchor or at the tyme of findeing the sayd Anchor wherein
shee bilged, this hee knoweth for the reasons in his foregoeing depoition
declared And further cannot answere/

To the 9th hee saith that the sayd Robert Clarke the Master
of the Warwell and this deponent and his Contests Marke Dawson and John
Gallant and others having as aforesayd under runne the hawse of the
Susan and found it fastned to the ring of the Anchor whereon the Warwell
had bilged, they tookup the Anchor into their boate, the hawser being
still fast to it, and brough it to the side of the Susan, and asked her
Company whether that were their Anchor whereto they replyed they did
not know, and then the sayd Clarke holding the hawser in his hands
asked them whether that were their hawser, wherto they answered
yes, and thereupon the sayd Clarke caused the sayd Marke Dawson to unbend
or lossen the sayd hawser from the sayd Anchor in sight of the Susans
Company, and that being done the Susans Company [?XXsed] the sayd
hawser aboard their shipp and the sayd Clarke and his boates Crew carried
the sayd Anchor aboard the Warwell, and kept it there for some tyme to
see whetehr the Susans Company would come to fetch it, but they not
comming for the same, the sayd Clarke caused the same to bee carried
ashoare into the yard of one Mr Waters in Wapping where (as hee
beleeveth) it still remaynes And saith the sayd Anchor was in this deponents
Judgment about three hundred weight and being broken as it was worth
in this deponents Judgment about five shillings a hundred it being but to be valued
after the price of old iron And further hee cannot answere/