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board the said shipp ''Mary'', breake her … board the said shipp ''Mary'', breake her maine mast, maine topp, maine yard,<br />
foreyard, her maine shrowds, two of her foreshrowds her missen topp mast,<br />
and cracked her misen mast, spoyled her maine stay in two places, and brake<br />
one side of the said shipp the ''Mary'' downe to the Water, and rent her foresaile<br />
and maine topsaile, and much deteriorated her new mayne saile, and very much<br />
damnified all the small rigging of the said shipp ''Mary'', And saith that upon<br />
the said violent irruption severall of the Company of the said Vessell the ''ffreeman'' came<br />
on board the said Vessell the ''Mary'', and did there cutt and hack the said shipp<br />
the ''Mary'' and her tackle in a violent and wilfull manner , the said John Whitty<br />
in the meane time standing upon the forecastle of the said shipp ''ffreeman''<br />
and calling out to the Master and Company of the said shipp ''Mary'', sayeing<br />
'''You Colliers doggs I had not cared if I had sunke you''', this deponent then being<br />
one of the Companie of the said Vessell the ''Mary'' and aboard her, and hearing<br />
seeing and observing the premisses by him predeposed: hee further saith That<br />
the dammage sustained by the said shipp the ''Mary'' by the meanes aforesaid<br />
did and doe really amount to the valew of two hundred pounds sterling or<br />
thereabouts to the best of this deponents Judgement and estimation, hee haveing for<br />
12. yeares last past continually frequented the sea as a Mariner and knowing the<br />
valew of such tackle and furniture and dammages so sustained as aforesaid,<br />
And verily beleeveth That the said shipp the ''Mary'' will cost so much or<br />
more in reparation, before shee bee in as good a condition as shee as before<br />
the said dammages so sustained as is predeposed. And further hee cannot depose
To the third article hee saith, That the said Vessell the ''Mary'' at the time<br />
of the dammage sustained as aforesaid was a Vessell constantly employed<br />
upon Voyages to fetch Coales from the Port of New Castle to this Port of<br />
London, And that by reason of the dammage predeposed, the said shipp ''Mary''<br />
hath bin and is still necessitated to lye neere the said River of Thames at the<br />
New Crane to be repaired, and by meanes thereof hath lost her employment which<br />
shee otherwise might have had upon a Colliers Voyage to Newcastle aforesaid<br />
which in all probability shee might have performed, aswell as other shipps<br />
have done in that time of this deponents certaine knowledge. And saith that hee<br />
verily beleeveth and is convinced in Judgement that the Owners of the said shipp<br />
by meanes of her retardment from the said Voyage have suffered dammage in<br />
that particular to the cleare valew of fifty pounds sterling or thereabouts. The premisses<br />
hee deposeth being one of the said shipps Company, and staying here in and<br />
about London ever since the dammage so sustained as aforesaid. And further<br />
cannot depose./
To the 4th hee saith That hee referreth himselfe to the Actas and proceedings of<br />
this Court. And further cannot depose:-/
To the Interrogatories [CENTRE HEADING]
'''dt. Smith.'''
To the first hee saith hee cometh to be a Witnesse in this Cause to declare the<br />
trueth of his knowledge therein, by the meanes of Robert Yaxley Master of the said shipp the ''Mary''<br />
interrate, and saith the dammage by him predeposed happened betwixt<br />
10. and 12. of the Clocke in the forenoone, this deponent then being above<br />
deckdeponent then being above<br />
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