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To the fourth hee saith hee remembreth not … To the fourth hee saith hee remembreth not the precise time of the shipps<br />
comming betweene limehouse and Blackwall, but saith shee then drew<br />
foure foote and a halfe or foure foote and three quarters water or thereabouts,<br />
and that they the master and this deponent are sufficiently experienced<br />
in navigating and bringing up vessells, this deponent having bin come<br />
foure and twenty times in voyages up the said river to this port.
To the fifth hee saith that when the master and this deponent perceived<br />
water in the shipp, the said master or other called out for a boate or lighter, which<br />
came aboard to help save some of the goods, and that the vessell<br />
all along drew depth of water as aforesaid, namely neere or about<br />
five foote, and that shee had water enough to saile at limehouse.<br />
and saith there was about a foote water in hold when they first sawe it.
To the 6th negatively.
To the 7th hee saith it was waying water as the said vessell came<br />
to the halfe way tree betwixt Gravesend and london, and otheriwse<br />
negatively, saving hee cannot answer to the age and number of voyages of the<br />
said vessell
To the 8th hee cannot answer
To the 9th negatively for his part, and otherwise hee<br />
referreth himselfe to his foregoeing deposition; saying<br />
hee this deponent was the pilot.
To the last hee saith the interrate Joost Johnson hath long used the sea<br />
of this deponents knowledge, namely above three yeeres, And<br />
otherwise hee cannot answer.
Corneles Corneles [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The same day. [CENTRE HEADING]
Exámined upon the foresaid allegation.
'''Rp. 2.'''
'''Hendrick Cornelison''' of Rotterdam Mariner, aged 23<br />
yeeres or thereabouts sworne and exámined.
To the first article hee saith hee well knoweth the vessell arlate<br />
and hath soe donne for theise three yeares last or thereabouts, and<br />
saith shee was all the time arlate a firme stringe an staunch<br />
vessell and very fit to receive and carry merchants goods from port<br />
to port. And saith that in or about the beginning of May last<br />
shee received severall goods abroad her (and amongst them foure<br />
bales of bookes) to be brought to this port, which hee knoweth being<br />
one of her company, and helping to lade and receive the said bookes<br />
and goods.
To the second and third articles hee saith that on about the<br />
fifteenth (new stile) of May last the said vessell with the said<br />
goods and bookes aboard her departed and sailed from Rotterdam<br />
for this port, and about three dayes after came up thether in the<br />
River of Thames as farr as Saint Catherines, and saith the said vessell<br />
came all the way fairly and orderly up the River in such manner<br />
and course of sailing as other vessells use to come up, and that<br />
in such her sailing up the said River and after shee came within<br />
the same a mischanse befell her, whereby shee sprang a leake,<br />
but in what particular place and by what meanes it happened hee<br />
knoweth not, but verily beleeveth shee raked upon some anchor<br />
that had noe buoy fastened to it, and thereby got that mischanseened to it, and thereby got that mischanse +
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