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theise three or foure yeeres cost the said … theise three or foure yeeres cost the said Mary and her said husband or one of<br />
them three hundred pounds or thereabouts, and that necessarily, and the same<br />
hath bin occasioned by the lighters and servants of the said Prior and others<br />
working there and digging holes as aforesaid. And this alsoe hee saith<br />
was and is true, publique and notorious And otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the fifth hee saith that hee verily beleeveth that the said Mary Ewens<br />
(besides the said summe of three hundred pounds in repaires or thereabouts) hath by<br />
the said digging and making pitts, which have occasioned the falling in and calving downe of the said wharfe and bancks into the River,<br />
suffered losse and dammage yet to the summe of one hundred pounds sterling more. And<br />
otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING]
'''Rp.'''
To the first hee saith hee hath lived theise fifteene yeeres last in<br />
white Chappell parish, and got his living in that space by his trade<br />
of a waterman, to which trade hee served seaven yeeres apprentishipp;<br />
and was never servant to the producent Mary Ewens or her husband.<br />
And saith hee cometh required by the said Mrs Ewens to testifie the<br />
truth in this busines, without compulsion; and saith hee desireth<br />
iustice may take place in this cause wherein hee favoureth neither partie<br />
more than other, but would give the victory indifferently.
To the second hee saith that it is unlawfull and contrary to severall orders<br />
and ordinances for any to worke with Engines in the River of<br />
Thames for the taking up of ballast into lighters or otherwise<br />
either upon shelves or at elsewhere in the said river, or to<br />
worke or take up ballast with an Engine nearer than at tenn rodds distance from<br />
every wharfe or key or banke of the river, referring himselfe to<br />
the orders and ordinances made in that matter, And otherwise hee cannot<br />
answer.
To the third hee saith that hee hath severall times within the time aforesaid seene the said Priors lighters and<br />
servants, with and amongst other lighters and servants taking up<br />
gravell with net and iron (contrary to the ordinances) within five or sixe<br />
rodds of the said wharfe of the said Ewens.
To the fourth hee saith hee hath knowne the servants of or such as were<br />
imployed by the said producents husband in his life time with shovells and<br />
spades take up gravell neere the said wharfe to amend and repaire<br />
the said wharfe withall; and not otherwise, but near know any imployed by<br />
her the producent since her husbands death about taking up any gravell<br />
in the said River. And otherwise cannot answer saving as aforesaid.
To the fifth hee saith that mr Ewens servants in his life did worke<br />
with spades and shovells (and not other instruments) neerer as hee beleeveth<br />
to the said wharfe in taking up gravell for the use aforesaid, than hee hath<br />
at any time observed mr Priors lighters and servants to worke. And<br />
otherwise hee cannot answer saving as aforesaid.
To the 6th hee cannot answer, saving negatively for his part.
To the last negatively, sa[y]ing hee neither knew or ever heard ought thereof
Repeated before doctor Godolphin.
The mark of william<br />
[MARKE] harris [MARKE, RH SIDE]t;br />
[MARKE] harris [MARKE, RH SIDE] +
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