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The same day:/:
Examined on the said Libe … The same day:/:
Examined on the said Libell: [CENTRE HEADING]
'''Rp 2dus''' [LH MARGIN]
'''Robert Scotting''' of Wapping Mariner<br />
aged 32 years or thereabouts sworne and Examined
To the first position of the said Libell he saith and deposeth<br />
that for and during all the moneth of December 1658<br />
and before and since the Libellate John Miller was the master and part owner of the<br />
ship the ''John and Katherine'' and soe Comonly accounted<br />
which hee knoweth for that hee belonged to the said ship<br />
about two or three monethes before the Damage in Question.<br />
happened and hath belonged to her ever since, And further<br />
cannot depose.
To the second hee saith that by the relation of the Company<br />
of the ''Coast ffrigot'' Libellate, the Libellate Elliot and Risby<br />
were on board the said ffrigot at the time shee did the<br />
Damage to the ''John and Katherin'' as hereafter is expressed<br />
but which of them was master of her then hee Knoweth<br />
not; but saith that the said Risby went from Gravesend<br />
master of her And further cannot depose ./.
To the third and fourth positions hee saith that in the said<br />
moneth of December 1658 and untill the<br />
Dammage in Question happened the said ship the ''John''<br />
''and Katherine'' lay moored in the Roade of<br />
Gravesend, in safety in a Convenient place where<br />
ships doe most Comonly ryde, and saith that on<br />
the morning of the Fifteenth day or thereabouts of the<br />
said moneth of December 1658 as the said ship the ''John''<br />
''and Katherine'' was moored as aforesaid,<br />
the ship the ''Coast ffrigot'', came, and fell<br />
thwart the hause of the ''John and Katherine''<br />
and brake her head quite off. (which was lost thereby)<br />
and alsoe brake her best bower Cable, and Carried the<br />
other Cable and the Anchor of the said ship ''John and Katherine'' foule of the Cable belonging<br />
to a ship called the ''Grayhound'' there ryding, and for<br />
the Cleering of the said two Cables the Company<br />
of the John and Katherine were forced to cut their Cable<br />
about two of three fathome from the Anchor, And saith<br />
that when the said ''Coast ffrigot'' came thwart the hause<br />
of the John and Katherine, the ''Coast ffrigotts'', Topsailes<br />
were halfe mast downe, lying at the mast, and her<br />
foresaile halfe up in the Brayles; And her Boate<br />
was towing her to the Northward: And saith at the time<br />
the said damage was done this Deponent could not perceive<br />
that the ''Coast ffrigot'' had ever an Anchor downe, The<br />
Premisses hee deposeth being the said time Boatswaine<br />
of, and on board the said Ship ''John and Katherine'' and<br />
Sawe, the Premisses acted and done as aforesaid<br />
And further cannot Depose:/.<br />
Tond further cannot Depose:/.<br />
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