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Shipps when they come home laden into the … Shipps when they come home laden into the River of Thames to fasten to<br />
other shipps lying in the river, for one tyde for the better preservation of them<br />
and their ladeing, although the shipp they fasten to be outwards bound and have goods<br />
to receive on board, soe that the shipp outward bound have not lighters, or<br />
boates with goods then lying by her, and be in the act of receiving them on board, And<br />
hee saith the sayd shipp soe returning home laden may for one tyde fasten<br />
to an outward shipp without the goods will of the master and Company<br />
of the outward bound shipp, and hee hath often within these twentie yeares<br />
last past seene the same soe done, and hath him selfe often helped to fasten<br />
shipps wherein hee returned home laden, to outward bound shipps, somtymes<br />
with, and somtymes without the goo will of the Master and Company<br />
of the shipp to whome hee soe fastned, and hee this respondent well remembreth<br />
that after 10 yeares since in the moneth of July hee came from the Streights with a lading<br />
in a shipp called the ''Little Lewis'', and comming into the River of Thames neere<br />
Ratcliffe Crosse Captaine Richard Ell the Commander of the sayd shipp<br />
did cause his sayd shipp the ''Lewis'' to be fastned by this deponent and others of his company to an other shipp then<br />
outward bound and there lying (whose name hee now remembreth not) for one tyde till they could come to fasten to<br />
the chayne there, without the leave and good likeing of the Master or company of<br />
the sayd outwards bound shipp, who quarreled with and reviled this deponent and the rest<br />
of the sayd ''Lewis'' her Company for soe doeing, but did not offer to cut her hawsers<br />
wherewith shee was fastned, well knowing (as this deponent beleeveth) that<br />
it was a frequent Custome for laden shipps soe to doe, And<br />
saith hee hath knowne the like done by one Captaine Wilkinson about three<br />
yeares since at a chayne neare Lymehouse, and the like done by others<br />
but the tymes or places and names of the shipps that did see her at present<br />
cannot call to mynde, but well knoweth it is a Common custome soe<br />
to doe And further hee cannot answere/
To the 6th hee saith that when the ''Exeter Merchant'' came toward the ''ffrancis''<br />
''and Mary'' the Interrogate Smith the master of her or his company did call to the Master and<br />
Company of the ''Exeter Merchant'' and tld them they had goods<br />
to come aboard and therefore the ''Exeter Merchant'' must not come to hinder<br />
them, or to that effect, whereto the sayd Woodfin and Company replyed<br />
as in this rendents answere to the 4th Interrogatorie is expressed or to the like<br />
effect and hee alsoe saith that Woodfin did goe on board the ''ffrancis<br />
and Mary'' and after his being on board a hauser of the ''Exeter Marchant''<br />
was made fast to the bolsprit or to the Cable of the ''ffrancis and Mary''.<br />
but to which of them hee remembreth not, nor knoweth whether the same<br />
were soe fastned by any of the ''Exeter Merchants'' company or by her Master or whether it were soe fastned contrary<br />
to the good will of the Master and Company of the ''ffrancis and<br />
Mary'' and further hee cannot answere./t;
Mary'' and further hee cannot answere./ +
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