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HCA 13/70 f.501r Annotate
First transcribed 26 January 2015  +
First transcriber Colin Greenstreet  +
Folio 501  +
Parent volume HCA 13/70  +
Side Recto  +
Status Uploaded image; transcribed on 26/01/2015  +
Transcription the sayd Woodfin and soe knoweth hee is gethe sayd Woodfin and soe knoweth hee is generally reputed to bee a very<br /> able seaman And further to this article hee cannot depose/ To the 2 article of the sayd allegation hee saith that upon or about the first of<br /> May last the vessell the ''Exeter Merchant'' arlate being returned from a voyage<br /> from parts beyond the seas laden with Currance and Varina Tobaccoe came up<br /> the River of Thames to the lower chayne at Lymehouse where here Company intended<br /> to ride, and at her coming thither the arlate shipp ''ffrancis and Mary'' lay there with<br /> her cable fastned to the sayd chayne, and hee saith the tyde being then much<br /> about high water, the Company of the ''Exeter Merchant'' could not fasten to the<br /> chaye, wherefore some of the Company went with their boate to the ''ffrancis''<br /> ''and Mary'' and when they came neere thereto the<br /> arlate Smith the Captaine of her perceiving that they intended to fasten<br /> a hawser to his chaine called to them, and told them that they should not lye<br /> on board of him, but the sayd shipps<br /> company well knowing (as this deponent beleeveth) that it was a usuall thing for laden shipps to fasten to any<br /> shipp lying in the River of Thames for one tyde for the better<br /> preservation of their ladeing, did notwithstanding the sayd Smith was unwilling<br /> and forbadd them to doe soe, fasten a hawser to the sayd ''ffrancis and Marys'' Cable<br /> and hee saith the sayd Smith suffered the same after it was soe fastned to continue<br /> fastned thereto almost an hower, And hee saith that the sayd<br /> hawser being soe fastned Thomas Woodfin commander<br /> of the ''Exeter Merchant'' being then on shoare, (and as hee beleeveth observing<br /> the sayd Smiths unwillingnesse to suffer his Company of the ''Exeter''<br /> ''Merchant'' to fasten a hawser o his Cable) tooke a boat, and came presently<br /> on board the ''ffrancis and Mary'', and (as this deponent hath heard the sayd Woodfin<br /> saye) did speake to the sayd Smith in a freindly manner and desyre him that<br /> there might be an other fast made to the boltspritt of the ''ffrancis and Mary'' that<br /> soe the ''Exeter Merchant'' might ride safe till lowe water that shee could make<br /> fast to the chayne, And hee knoweth that it hath bin the custome of the River of<br /> Thames ever since this deponent was a waterman thereof, that a laden shipp coming<br /> into the sayd River might for the securitie of her ladeing make fast to any other<br /> shipp there rideing, for the space of one tyde, although the Company of the shipp<br /> to whome they desyre to make fast, be unwilling to suffer them soe to doe,<br /> and hee saith that this custome is a thing well knowne to most watermen<br /> and sea men who use the River of Thames The premisses hee deposeth for the reasons as aforesayd as alsoe for that hee was onboard the ''Exeter Merchant'' [#] [# LH MARGIN, AT 90 DEGREES]<br /> and imployed to helpe to bring her from Blackwall to the sayd chayne and by that meanes being<br /> an eye witnes to the premisses and further saving his subsequent<br /> deposition hee cannot depose/ To the third and 4th articles hee saith that while the premisses soe predeposed of<br /> were soe doeing the tyde began to runnwe a stronge ebbe and<br /> the Company of the ''Exeter Merchant'' (being necessitated<br /> soe to doe for their preservation) did by helpe of the hawser they had fastned<br /> to the ''ffrancis and Mary'' intending to make an other hawser fast to her<br /> Boltspritt or some other part of her, which the sayd Smith perceiving hee did<br /> in an angrie and wilfull manner take a hatchett and contrary to the Custome predeposed of<br /> cut the Custome predeposed of<br /> cut  +
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