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To the 5th hee saith that hee well knoweth … To the 5th hee saith that hee well knoweth that it is a thinge very frequent<br />
for persons who come in laden to goe on board any shipp in the River of Thames<br />
and for the better securing of their ladeing to fasten<br />
to other shipps for one tyde (and somtymes for longer) and that without the good<br />
likeing of the Company of the shipp to which they fasten, it being a Common<br />
case and tending to the preservation of their shipps and ladeing, and this deponent<br />
hath often knowne shipps fasten in the River of Thames uppon shipps wherein<br />
this deponent was one of the Company, and knoweth they have done soe<br />
without the Consent and good likeing of the Masters and Companys of the<br />
sayd shipps to which they were fastned, and hee saith that it is a thinge<br />
well knowne amongst sea men that shipps doe usually in the like<br />
cases fasten one to an other in the River of Thames, And<br />
soe hee saith they have used to doe ever since hee<br />
this deponent was a seaman, and hee well remembreth that about three<br />
weekes since a shipp came from the West Indies lade with sugar (whose name hee remembreth not) and did<br />
contrary to the will of this deponent who had then the care and ordering of<br />
the shipp the ''honour'' (whereof hee is now Boatswaine) committed unto him<br />
by Captaine John Price the Master thereof during his ansence) fasten their<br />
hawser to the sayd shipp and ridd thereby neere upon three weekes the ''Honour'' then lying at the same chayne at Limehouse where the ''ffrancis and Mary'' laye And<br />
the ''honour'' being then outward bound for Virginia and takeing in goods<br />
almost every day, And for the particuler names of other shipps that have soe bin<br />
fastned unto, hee remembreth not at present, And further hee cannot<br />
depose./
To the 6th and 7th hee saith hee hath satisfied the contents thereof in his foregoeing<br />
deposition and answeres soe farr as hee can, saving hee saith that the<br />
Company of the ''Exeter Marchant'' did twice fasten their hawser to the<br />
Cable of the ''ffrancis and Mary'', and that the first tyme they soe fastned<br />
it the Master and Company of the ''ffrancis and Mary'' did forbidd<br />
them soe to doe, and loosned the same presently but the same being<br />
fastned the second tyme the Master and Company of the<br />
''ffrancis and Mary'' did suffer the same to continue soe fastened about halfe an<br />
hower, and afterwards cut it off as before is deposed And further<br />
hee cannot depose./
To the 8th hee saith the sayd shipp the ''Exeter Merchant'' at the tyme<br />
Interrogate could not lye at Anchor soe safe in any place of the<br />
Thames as the place where the ''ffrancis and Mary'' laye<br />
for that the Thames was fuller of shipps in other places then<br />
it was there, and the tyde of ebb was soe stronge that shee<br />
could not possibly make to any other place to ride soe safely as<br />
there if there had bin roome in other places for her, And further hee<br />
cannot answere./
To the 9th hee saith the ''Exeter Merchant'' came on the Outside of the<br />
''ffrancis and Mary'' and as hee beleeveth contrary to the will of the Master<br />
and Company of the ''ffrancis and Mary''./and Company of the ''ffrancis and Mary''./ +
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