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The 26th of November 1659: [CENTRE HEADING … The 26th of November 1659: [CENTRE HEADING]
Sorrell against Hall aforesaid}
Examined on the foresaid Allegation given<br />
in on the behalfe of the said hall./.
'''Rp. [?1]2us'''
[GUTTER '''?vide A:A''']
'''Thomas ffeild''' of harwich in<br />
Essex Shipwright aged 53 yeeres or<br />
thereabouts Sworne and Examined:/:
To the first second and 3d articles of the said Allegation hee saith<br />
that hee well knoweth the ship the ''Agreement'' John<br />
hall master and alsoe well knoweth the ship the ''Abigail''<br />
Thomas Laverick late Master, and saith that on or about the<br />
twentieth day of October 1658 the said ship<br />
the ''Agreement'' came from Newcastle in Company of<br />
a great ffleete of Ships, bound to this Port and other<br />
places in England, and the Said Ship the ''Abigail''<br />
came out of Newcastle the same tyde but after the<br />
''Agreement'', and of this Deponents certaine knoweledge the<br />
''Abigail'' was a Sterne of the ''Agreement'': from her<br />
coming out of Tinmouth haven, untill the morning<br />
of the 25th of the said moneth of October. 1658. or thereabouts on which<br />
morning the ''Agreement'' was Sailing with an easy saile<br />
keeping the Leade, and the ''Abigail'' Sailing after the<br />
''Agreement'' with all the Sailes shee could make,<br />
by that meanes fetcht up the ''Agreement'' and did<br />
runne foule of the ''Agreement'' by the Carlelessenesse or willfullnes<br />
of the Company of the ''Abigail'', as this Deponent hath<br />
oftentimes Credibly heard, but hee did not see the<br />
same done, The premisses hee deposeth being the<br />
Said time Carpenter of the Ship the ''Blessing'' of<br />
Maningtree which was then in Company of the said<br />
ffleete, and was one of the Sternmost ships, and kept neere<br />
the ''Abigail'' from Tinmouth haven, untill the said<br />
morning, and saith that about two or three a clock of<br />
the said morning the ''Abigail'' fetcht up the said Ship<br />
''Blessing'', [the ''blessing'' being before a head of her) and had<br />
like to have come foule of the ''Blessing'' by the carelessenes<br />
of her Company, but (missing the ''blessing'') shee<br />
sailed away withall saile shee could make, and about two<br />
howres after runne foule of the ''Agreement'' as this<br />
Deponent hath oftentimes Credibly heard, And further<br />
cannot depose./.
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cannot depose./.
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