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Engine was sett to worke and went about to … Engine was sett to worke and went about to wynne her wager, he amongst a great many<br />
others went to be a spectator therof and stood at Saint Olaves stayres where<br />
there is a post sett up for where the sayd boate was to come with her<br />
load, which post is above fourtye yards Eastward belowe the bridge, which this<br />
deponent hath seene measured, and that the sterne of the sayd boate or engine was<br />
right against the sayd post and her head was alll her length beyond it videlicet about thirtye<br />
fotte belowe that post, and then and nnot before she discharged er selfe of<br />
all the gravell which laye in one of her partitions<br />
and after she had discharged that part of her ladinge belowe<br />
bridge as aforesayd, he with many others run about to fferryes wharfe aforesayd to see<br />
her discharge the rest of her ladinge, which she did as before he hath deposed And<br />
afterwards this deponent for his better remembrance tooke a note in his Almanacke what day the
To the third he sayeth. That the gravell which the sayd boate or engine caryed<br />
and placed and stowed in two partitions and one part therof which laye next<br />
her sterne, she first discharged her selfe of above fourtye yards belowe<br />
the sayd bridge, without the helpe of any livinge creature but whether that part of gravell first discharged was two<br />
thirds of the gravell in her he knoweth not, which she soe performed (aswell as this<br />
deponent can relate) by this meanes videlicet, when the water was about an houre ebb<br />
a great pynn or peece of wood which stayd her wheeles<br />
from workinge was plucktt out, and then those wheeles went to worke<br />
and there were some basketts and a hogshead fastened to her which drove downe<br />
with the tyde, and directed her to come through the right locke of the sayd bridge<br />
videlicet the second locke from the Beare taverne at Bridge foote, and when she<br />
was gonne downe through Bridge lower then the place appointed, then by<br />
an Engine or Jacke, a hatchett which was in the sayd engine by a devise chopte the<br />
rope in peeces whereunto the basketts and hogsheads aforesayd were fastened<br />
and then they were loose and drove away with the tyde and imediately theruppon a trapp dore<br />
in the bottome of the sayd boate opemed and lett fall and discharged out of her<br />
into the Thames one parte of the gravell in her, and after that part of the sayd gravell<br />
was discharged and the basketts and hogsheads were loose and drove away from her as aforesayd<br />
then the sayd boate with the helpe of another engine which laye at anchor above the bridge<br />
was screwed or winded up agayne to the palce where she tooke in the sayd<br />
gravell, and when she was returned up thither, there were two poles which stood<br />
up righte in the Engine which drove up the sayd boate, and another pole laye crosse<br />
on those two poles, and there was a Jacke or staffe which stood up righte in the sayd<br />
boate which pynned the other Dore of the other partition wherin the rest of the<br />
sayd gravell laye and when the sayd boate by the sayd engine was drawne<br />
up under, and hitt against the pole which laye crosse in the sayd engine, the staffe or jacke<br />
in th esayd boate slipt backe, and left open the other trapp dores and<br />
by that meanes the sayd boate was discharged of all the rest of the sayd gravell<br />
and the sayd gravell in both of the sayd partitions was kepte in soe cloe, bu the<br />
sayd dores that all of it dropte downe at once assoone as the trapp doore<br />
opened, all which he sayeth was donne without the helpe<br />
of any livinge creature./ Et alr nescit deponere/
To the fourth he sayeth. That the sayd boate or engine had many tymes practised<br />
to performe what was under taken by the sayd mr Basmer But did alwayes<br />
fayle buy one mischance or other, untill the sayd seaventeenth day of August 1636.<br />
last past when she performed the same about elaven or twelve of the clocke<br />
at noone, and she then went and came backe agayne through one and the same<br />
locke, videlicet through the second locke next to the Beare Taverne at the bridge<br />
foot, and the sayd Engine did fully discharge her selfe of the sayd gravell about<br />
an houre after she began to worke<br />
and that there was noe bodye abord the sayd boate at any tyme after she begann<br />
to worke, the ty,e aforesayd untill she had fully discharged her selfe of the<br />
sayd ballast as aforesayd./
To the fifth he referreth himselfe to his deposition to thurd Interrogatorye And further<br />
he cannott depose./
To the sixth he sayeth That neither<br />
the interrogate mr Balmer or either of them or any other for them or either of them<br />
didfor them or either of them<br />
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