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by reason the ''White Lillie'' and ''Princ … by reason the ''White Lillie'' and ''Prince'' were moored neere this deponents howse<br />
hee did observe that the ''Prince'' was moored both head and stearne which<br />
hee knoweth is not a usuall kinde of mooreing of shipps soe high up in the<br />
Thames as above Saviours dock where they laye, and saith shipps may<br />
lye neere one an other without preiudice if they bee fast moored that their<br />
Anchors come not home And further hee cannot answere./
To the 5th Interrogatorie hee saith hee did observe that the ''Prince'' while shee<br />
laye neere the ''White Lillie'' was moored head and stearne but beleeveth<br />
her shee was not well moored for that hee did once observe that her<br />
Anchor came home and sawe her once come fowle upon the ''Lillie'' by that<br />
meanes, And further hee cannot answere./
To the last hee saith hee cannot answere not knowing in what condition<br />
the boltspritt was before the dammage predeposed of was done, nor knowing<br />
of any dammage done to the boltspritt of the ''White Lillie'' by the ''Prince''
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The same day. [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined on the sayd libell./
'''Rp. 5'''
'''Robert Adlington''' of the parish of Saint Peter ad<br />
Vincula in the Tower London Lighterman aged fifty<br />
yeares or thereabouts a wittnesse sworne and examined<br />
saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet./
To the first article of the sayd libell hee saith hee knoweth the shipp<br />
the ''White Lillie'' and the arlate Anthonio ffernandez and Partrick<br />
Betts and saith the sayd ffernandez and Betts (with their Company) the<br />
tyme arlate were commonly reputed Owners and Proprietors of the<br />
sayd shipp and her tackle apparrell and furniture and the sayd Betts<br />
was also then also commonly reputed Master and Commander of her this hee<br />
deposeth being a lighterman and imployed by the sayd Mr ffernandez<br />
and Betts to fetch wines with his lighter severall dayes in the moneth<br />
of Aprill last from on board the sayd shipp./
To the 2: 3: 5th and sixth articles of the sayd libell hee saith by reason hee<br />
this deponent was severall dayes in the moneth of Aprill last imployed<br />
by the sayd ffernandez and Betts to fetch wines with his lighter from on<br />
board the ''White Lillie'', hee knoweth that the sayd shipp in the sayd moneth<br />
and before the Comming of the shipp the ''Prince'' to moore there, was safely<br />
moored in a Convenient place neere horsey downe where shipps doe<br />
usually ride and had soe layne moored there for space of two dayes<br />
before the arrivall of the ''Prince'' there, and soe laye for that tyme without doing<br />
or receiving hurt to or from any other vessell there moored And saith<br />
that after shee had soe ridd there moored those two dayes the arlate shipp<br />
the ''Prince'' was by her Master and Company brought to an Anchor<br />
neere the ''White Lillie'' and fowle of her mooreings, and soe<br />
as that shee grounded upon the ''Lillies'' Cable and upon the tyde of<br />
flood drove aboard her and put her from her mooreings, and the<br />
''Princes'' Anchor bei lyeing thwarte the ''White Lillies'', dragged home<br />
the ''White Lillies'' Anchors, and drove her the ''White Lillie'' athwarte the chayne and much endangered thereby soe that<br />
the sayd Betts the Master of the ''White Lillie'' [?was] forced to cut the ''White Lillies''<br />
Cable to gett her cleere of the ''Princes'' Anchor, and thereupon the sayd<br />
Betts to avoide as much as hee could the ''Princes'' usuall coming fowle of the ''White''<br />
''Lillye''le of the ''White''<br />
''Lillye'' +
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