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To the 10th Interrogatorie hee saith it is … To the 10th Interrogatorie hee saith it is as usuall a thing for shipps<br />
which come home laden into the River of Thames to fasten to other<br />
shipps who ride there by a chayne, as it is for them to lye at<br />
Anchor and moore by them selves except there be<br />
very convenient mooreing for them, And further hee cannot depose/
To the 11th hee saith hee knoweth not the 'Custome in such case<br />
as is Interrogate, nor ever heard such a case decided and therefore<br />
cannot answere to this Interrogatorie./
To the 12th hee answereth negatively./
To the 13th hee saith that the samage predeposed of done to the<br />
quarter of the ''Exeter Marchant'' is repayred, and as hee beleeveth<br />
by order of the sayd Woodfin the Master of her, but hee this deponent<br />
sawe not any money paid for the sayd repayres and therefore knoweth not<br />
what the damage amounted unto, And further hee cannot answere/
To the 14th hee saith that since the sayd ''Exeter Marchants'' quarter<br />
was soe broken downe as is predeposed, shee hath had other repayres<br />
done to her as graveing and Cawkeing and sayles mended but<br />
what those other repayres amount unto hee knoweth not for that hee<br />
sawe not any money paid for them And further hee cannot answere/
To the 15th hee saith hee hath satisfied the contents of this Interrogatorie<br />
in his foregoeing deposition soe farr as hee can./
Repeated before doctor Godolphin/
John Johnson [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The same day [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined upon the sayd allegation./
'''Rp. 3us'''
'''Humphrey Lambe''' of Ratcliff in the parish of Stepney and<br />
County of Middlesex Mariner aged 42 yeares or thereabouts<br />
a witnes sworne and examined saith and deposeth as followeth<br />
videlcet./
To the first article of the sayd allegation hee saith that hee this deponent was<br />
Quarter Master of the arlate shipp the ''Exeter Merchant'' in her last voyage<br />
which shee began from this Port of London in the moneth of June 1654 And<br />
saith the arlate Thomas Woodfin went, and was Master and Commander of her the sayd<br />
voyage, and is still reputed soe to bee, and was (as hee beleeveth) made Master<br />
and Commander of her by the Owners thereof, but the particuler names of any<br />
of the Owners hee knoweth not, And saith hee hath knowne the sayd Woodfin<br />
only since about the 8th or 10th of June 1654 and saith hee observed that in the sayd voyage hee<br />
behaved him selfe as anble and experienced seaman in his sayd Office<br />
of master, and for an able and expert seaman the sayd Woodfin is commonly<br />
accompted And further hee cannot depose./
Toompted And further hee cannot depose./
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