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Ad 3 4 5 6 et 7. dicit that on or about th … Ad 3 4 5 6 et 7. dicit that on or about the 22th day of October<br />
1658 the said shipp ''John'' weighed to come out of the river<br />
of Tyne being laden with One hundred and fourty Chaldron<br />
of Coales Newcastle measure, and shee was then coming out<br />
in company of a great ffleate of ships, many of which were<br />
a head of the ''John''. And by that time shee was gott into<br />
the narrows (where the tyde runne strong against her)<br />
the ''Mary Rose'' weighed Anchor to saile out of the said River<br />
and having all her sailes full and her boate a head<br />
towing of jer Imediately fetcht up the ''John'' and not att<br />
all slackening saile did through the carelessenes and neglect of her Master and Company fall foule of the ship ''John'', and tooke<br />
away the winde from the ''John'', and the ''Mary Roses'' Boltspritt<br />
was foule in the ''Johhns'' shrowds, and being soe foule this<br />
deponent sawe the said ''Mary Rose'' give the ''John'' a [?sheare] crosse<br />
and by that meanes both of them were put ashore<br />
and before they were ashore this deponent sawe that the ''John''<br />
had an Anchor downe but the ''Mary Rose'' being foule<br />
of her dragged it home soe that it could not bring up the ''John''<br />
And saith that hee did not heare any words passe betweene<br />
the Master or Companyes of either of the said ships, and therefore<br />
cannot depose thereto, But saith that if the Company of<br />
the ''Mary Rose'' had slackened saile before shee soe<br />
fell foule of the ''John'' the said ship ''John'' would in all<br />
probability and as this Deponent judgeth and verily beleeveth have come away in safety and not have bin runne<br />
ashore as shee was. And saith to his remembrance, and as hee<br />
verily beleeveth the ''Mary Rose'' had not an Anchor downe<br />
the foresaid time, The Premisses hee deposeth being<br />
an Ey witnesse thereof this deponent being then there with the<br />
ship ''Agreement'' whereof hee was Master and cpming a sterne of<br />
the said ships hee slackened saile, and when they were ashore<br />
this deponent made what saile hee could to cleare and soe<br />
left them on shore together, and therefore cannot further depose<br />
to these articles, saving hee saith that some Masters of ship that came<br />
after this deponent told him that the ''Mary Rose'' was gott off but<br />
that the ''John'' could not get off, and that they feared shee would<br />
be spoiled by reason shee lay on the Edge of the banke, and the<br />
tyde fell away soe that shee lay on one side./
Ad 8. dicit that hee cannot Estimate how much the said ship was<br />
worth, but saith that her said Coales would have yeilded here<br />
at London the summe og 240. ''li'' sterling or thereabouts, in the said months of October and November 1648./:
Ad 9. 10. 11 12 et 13 dicit that about five months after the said disaster<br />
this deponent arrived at Newcastle againe and there sawe the said<br />
ship ''John'' Lye ashore, with her back broke, and all Unrigged<br />
shee having bin weighed at the Great charges (as was said of the<br />
Ownersges (as was said of the<br />
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