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On the same day. [CENTRE HEADING]
'''2)'' … On the same day. [CENTRE HEADING]
'''2)'''
'''Christopher Grynne''' of South Shields in the County<br />
of Durham Mariner, where he hath lived for<br />
the greatest part of his life, aged about 27 yeares<br />
a wittnes, produced and sworne and being examined<br />
he deposeth as followeth.
To the first and second articles of the said allegation<br />
he deposeth and saith That about January or ffebruary<br />
last past (the time more certainly he cannot remember)<br />
the articulate shipp the ''Desire'' was bound in for Tinmouth<br />
haven, and that she being come about halfe way within<br />
the barr thereof she could not goe further by reason of<br />
crosse and contrary winds, and that therupon the Master and<br />
Company of her did for her preservation cast anchor<br />
there to ride by her anchors and cables untill the wind<br />
showld favour her better comming into the said haven, And<br />
he deposeth and saith that of his knowledge who hath bin<br />
well acquainted with the said haven of Tinmouth for 8<br />
or 9 yeares last past, the place where the arlate ship<br />
the ''Desire'' lay at Anchor, is a fitting and convenient<br />
and an usuall place for shipps to cast anchor<br />
and there to ride when by crosse winds they are letted<br />
from getting in further, and that of necessity they<br />
must anchor, and ride there, and that the sayd shipp<br />
did there lye at Anchor and ride soe that many<br />
shipps did of this deponents knowledge sayle out of the<br />
sayd haven some ahead and some asterne of her without<br />
comming neere her or hazarding of her, The premisses<br />
he deposeth because he was aboard the arlate shipp the<br />
''Desire'' all the tyme she lay at Anchor and saw many<br />
shipps sayle soe by her at distance enough, before such<br />
time as the damage following happened unto her by<br />
the shipp the ''Sisters''. And further he cannot depose.
To the third article of the said allegation hee deposeth and<br />
saith that the said shipp the ''Desire'' lying as is predeposed in a<br />
safe and convenient place at anchor the arlate shipp the<br />
''Sisters'' came sayling out of the sayd haven with soe fresh<br />
a gale of wind that she might have sayled either ahead or<br />
a sterne of the sayd shipp the ''Desire'', his this deponents<br />
precontest Giles Nicholls Masters Mate perceiving the<br />
same did call unto the Company of the shipp the<br />
''Sisters'' asking them where they would be, and that one of<br />
the said shipp the ''Sisters'' Company did make answeare [?that]<br />
they would aboard them meaning the said shipp the ''desire''<br />
and he saith that at the time the said Nicholls called out<br />
unto them of the ''Sisters'' to know where they would be, they<br />
of the ''Sisters'' might very easily have passed by the<br />
''Desire'', if they would, but that they did willfully and<br />
violentlyey did willfully and<br />
violently +
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