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To the third fourth and 5th hee cannot ans … To the third fourth and 5th hee cannot answer as hee asith not being in<br />
the voyage and knowing ought thereof.
To the 6 hee saith hee beleeveth the goods claimed by the<br />
severall producents doe really belonge unto them, having seene letters from<br />
holland manifesting such their proprietie. And otherwise hee cannot<br />
answer.
To the 7th hee cannot answer.
To the 8th hee saith the said Abraham Maysert is of about 50 yeares<br />
of age and was borne as hee beleeveth in Amsterdam, and otherwise<br />
saving as aforesaid hee cannot depose.
Repeated in Court before the two Judges./.
Erasmus Bedloe [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 12th of November 1655. [CENTRE HEADING]
White and Company against the ''Margaret''}<br />
and ffox. Clements. Suckley.}
Examined upon the livell on the behalfe of<br />
the said White and Company
'''Rp. .j.'''
'''John Hart''' of Redriff in the County of Middlesex Mariner<br />
aged 23 yeares or thereabouts sworne and examined.
To the first article hee saith and deposeth that the time arlate the<br />
producent William White and Company were owners of the shipp the<br />
''Mayflower'' arlate whereof the said William was and still is master, and for<br />
such they were and are commonly accompted and reputed, yeelding a reason of<br />
his knowledge as followeth. And further cannot depose.
To the second hee deposeth that the time arlate and more particularly in or<br />
about the moneth of October 1653 the shipp the ''Mayflower'' arlate was riding<br />
in safetie in the River of Thames over against Rederith, and was there well<br />
mored, and there had rid and bin mored about three weekes space together in<br />
safetie, in a place fit for moring and where shipps of her burthen doe<br />
usually ride, and saith that after soe longe time of moring and rising<br />
as aforesaid namely in or about the said moneth of October 1653, the shipp<br />
the ''Margaret'' arlate (which had laine by the ''Mayflower'' during the<br />
space of three weekes without hurt done by either to other) broke from her cable and broke her<br />
Moring and ran ashore, and her company bringing her to a second moring moored<br />
her soe as shee came fowle of the ''Mayflower'', and the winde blowing<br />
hard at West, shee [?XXXled] and battered severall tides soe upon the ''Mayflower'', and<br />
dasht with soe much violence as that shee brake downe the carved worke<br />
and brackets of the sterne of the ''Mayflower'', and did her other dammage<br />
but the valew of the dammage, or howe much it cost repairing the said<br />
breaches and hurt hee saith hee doth not knowe, but conceiveth it may<br />
amount to 20 ''li'' sterling. The premisses hee deposeth being then masters<br />
mate of and aboard the ''Mayflower'', and seeing the same soe donne. And<br />
otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the third hee saith that at the said time of the said dammage, the<br />
shipp the ''Mayflower'' was intended for a voyage for Virginia, and was then<br />
fitting for the said voyage, but it was about 11 monethes after before shee<br />
proceededes after before shee<br />
proceeded +
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