| First transcribed
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27 October 2014 +
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| First transcriber
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Karen Gunnell +
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| Folio
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512 +
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| Parent volume
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HCA 13/70 +
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| Side
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Recto +
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| Status
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Uploaded image; transcribed on 27/10/2014 +
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| Transcription
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The same day [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined up … The same day [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined upon the sayd allegation./
'''d: smith'''
'''John Clarke''' of the parish of Stepney and County of Middlesex<br />
Mariner a Quarter master of the Shipp ''ffreeman'' aged 29 yeares or<br />
thereabouts a witnesse sworne and examined saith and deposeth as followeth<br />
videlicet
To the first second and third articles of the sayd allegation hee saith and deposeth that<br />
the shipp the ''ffreeman'' being goeing downe towards Gravesend with the benefitt of<br />
a smale gale of winde and the arlate shipp the ''Mary'' coming up towards London with<br />
the benefitt of the tyde of ffludd the Company of the ''ffreeman'' (for that their shipp<br />
was a shipp of good burthen of about five hundred tonnes and did drawe about sixteene<br />
foote water and had goods in her to a very considerable value and was as neere the South<br />
shoare of the Thames as conveniently she could goe without goeing aground and<br />
perceiving the shipp ''Mary'' to make towards them did call out to the company of the<br />
''Mary'' (while the ''Mary'' was at a good distance off yet soe neere that the company<br />
might very well heare what was sayd unto them) and desyred them to put their sayd<br />
shipp a stayes which they might easily have done if they pleased and told them if they did not soe doe shee would runne on board the<br />
''ffreeman'' or words to that effect which not withstanding the Master and Company of<br />
the ''Mary'' gave noe answere that this deponent heard but braced their mayne topp<br />
sayles a back stayes and put their helme a weather and by that meanes ranne<br />
their sayd shipp directly athwart the hawser of the ''ffreeman'' which they<br />
did in a negligent and carelessse manner as he beleeveth soe that they might if they<br />
had pleased easily have avoided falling fowle of the ''ffreeman'' by putting their sayd<br />
shipp a stayes or steereing her a little more northerly (the ''ffreeman'' being as neere<br />
the South shoare as she could conveniently goe being a shipp of good burthen) and the ''Mary'' being a<br />
smale shipp and having the greatest part of the Thames to have gone cleere of the<br />
''ffreeman'' if her company had pleased soe to have shaped her course<br />
soe that the damage controverted happened only though the fault of the company of the ''Mary'' and not #
[LH MARGIN AT 90 DEGREES]<br />
[#] any fault of the company of the ''ffreeman'' as hee verily believeth and is perswaded in his conscience
[and] deposeth being an eye witnes and one of the Company of and aboard the ''ffreeman''<br />
when the premisses happened And further cannot depose.
To the 4th hee saith he knoweth not that any of the compamy of the ''ffreeman'' did cut any<br />
of the tackle of the Mary but saith if any were cut hee beleeveth the same was soe cut<br />
in order to the preservation of the ''ffreeman'' and her ladeing from being driven on shoare<br />
by the ''Mary'' And further he cannot depose.
To the last hee saith saving his foregoeing deposition to the 1: 2 and 3 artlcles to which<br />
hee referreth hee cannot depose.
To the Interrogatories [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first Interrogatory hee saith hee was quarter Master of the ''ffreeman'' the tyme interrate and<br />
came to testifie the truth of his knowledge in this cause being soe required to doe<br />
by John [?Whitly] the Commander of the ''ffreeman'' and saith the ''Mary'' came fowle of the<br />
''ffreeman'' in manner predisposed in the forenoone when the tyde was about three quarters.<br />
fludd And further hee cannot answer./
To the 2 Interrogatory he saith see paid all his wages save 30 ''s'' which he saith is stopped<br />
out of the same and the like out of the wages of others of the ''ffreemans'' company<br />
for certayne tobaccoes which appeareth by the boatswaines booke to be laded aboard the<br />
''ffreeman'' in Virginia and were nor found aboard her at her unladeing at London and<br />
otherwise hee cannot answere having heard nothing touching any such resolution<br />
or declaration as is Interrogate./
To the third hee saith that Peter Witty and this deponents contest George Putt and Edward King and<br />
others of the Company of the ''ffreeman'' did call out to the Company of the ''Mary'' in manner<br />
predisposed, but whether the ''Maryes'' company answered or what answere they gave hee knoweth<br />
not, and saith the ''Mary'' was damaged by her falling fowle of the ''ffreeman'' and had<br />
her mayne mast broke down And further hee cannot answere.
Repeated before doctor Godolphin
the marke of the sayd<br />
John '''C''' Clarke/ [MARKE, RH SIDE]>
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