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To the 10th hee saith if the tyde be soe … To the 10th hee saith if the tyde be soe farr spent as it was when the<br />
''Exeter Merchant'' came to the lower chayne at Lymehouse) it is in such<br />
cases more frequent for laden shipps to fasten to other shipps which they<br />
find moored or rideing by a chayne and [?tXXt] thereon and there to ride till the next<br />
tyde, then it is for them the tyde being soe spent to endeavour to lye at an Anchor<br />
of their owne And further to this Interrogatorie hee cannot answere.
To the 11th hee saith hee beleeveth if the damage Interrogate<br />
were done through the want of judgment or through the carelessnesse and<br />
default of the Master and Company of the ''Exeter Merchant'' hee the sayd Master<br />
and his Company ought to beare their severall proportions thereof, and saith<br />
hee beleeveth the Custome to bee soe that they by whose neglect<br />
a damage comes ought to beare the damages, And saith hee this deponent<br />
is none of the Company of the ''Exeter'' ''Merchant'' and therefore not lyable<br />
to any part thereof by what meanes soe ever it came And further to<br />
this Interrogatorie hee cannot answere/
To the 12th hee answereth negatively./
To the 13th hee saith hee hath bin on board the shipp ''Exeter Merchant'' since<br />
the damage by him predeposed was repayred, and thereby knoweth the same<br />
is repaired, and hath heard and beleeveth the same was repayred at the<br />
charge of the Master and Owners of her, and saith hee sawe noe money<br />
paid for the sayd repayres And further cannot answere/
To the 14th hee saith hee knoweth there have bin other repayres done to the<br />
''Exeter'' ''Merchant'' besides the repair of the damage by him this rendent<br />
predeposed of, but what the same amount unto, or whether they be<br />
distinguished from the repaires of the damage predeposed of hee knoweth<br />
not for that hee hath not seene nor is privie to the Accompts touching the<br />
same And therefore cannot further answere/
To the last hee saith hee hath satisfied the contents thereof in his foregoing<br />
deposition./
Repeated before Doctor Godolphin
Robert Dennis [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 28th 0f August 1655 [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined upon the sayd allegation./
'''5us'''
'''James Merrit''' of Lymehouse in the parish of Stepney and<br />
County of Middlesex Waterman aged 48 yeares or thereabouts<br />
a witnesse sworne and examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicit
To the first article of the sayd allegation hee saith hee hath knowne the arlate<br />
Thomas Woodfin for about these twenty yeares last past during all which tyme<br />
hee saith hee hath bin commonly reputed an able and well experienced seaman, and hee<br />
knoweth that hee hath gone Commander of the ''Exeter Merchant'' divers voyages<br />
and knoweth hee hath had the care of shipps as Master of them committed<br />
to him for these five or six yeares last past, this hee deposeth having bin a<br />
Waterman for these 27 yeares and for a great part thereof hath bin a neere neighbour<br />
to theh bin a neere neighbour<br />
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