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|Person=John Witchells
|First name=John
|Last name=Witchells
|Occupation=Mariner
|Mariner occupation=Gunner
|Training=Not apprentice
|Citizen=Unknown
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|Has signoff text=I
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|Language skills=English language,
|Res street=Limehouse
|Res parish=Stepney
|Res county=Middlesex
|Res country=England
|Deposition start page(s)=HCA 13/71 f.573r Annotate,
|Deposition date(s)=Mar 6 1657
|Has infobox completed=Yes
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|Has HCA evidence completed=No
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|Role in Silver Ship litigation=None
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==Biographical synthesis==
John Witchells (b. ca. ?; d. ?). Mariner.

Gunner of the ship the ''Plough''.

Resident in Limehouse in the parish of Stepney.

==Evidence from High Court of Admiralty==
Forty year old John Witchells deposed on March 6th 1657 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on an allegation in "A business of examination of wittnesses ad perpetuam rei memoriam touching certaine stormes which happened to the shipp called the ''Plough'' of which Philip Noyes is or was master and whatsoever goods on board the same lately brought in the sayd shipp from the Westerne Islands to this Port of London promoted by the sayd Noyes against all who have or pretend interest in the sayd shipp and her ladeing"<ref>[[HCA 13/71 f.571v Annotate|HCA 13/71 f.571v]]</ref>

John Witchells stated that the ship the ''Plough'' was en route from the Westerne Islands to London when she met with "much stormie and tempestious weather". On January 7th 1657 "shee mett with such a storme of winde hayle and rayne (that lasted for above twenty fower houres) that shee thereby shipped much water the sea breaking often over her with that violence that this deponent and others were up to the knees in water upon deck, and one sea brake in at the sterage (sic) doore and runne downe into the Gunne roome and the sayd shipp and ladeing by reason of the violence of the sayd storme was in great danger of perishing
as alsoe were the lives of her Company."<ref>[[HCA 13/71 f.573v Annotate|HCA 13/71 f.573v]]</ref>

==Comment on sources==

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 |Occupation=Mariner
 |Mariner occupation=Gunner
 |Training=Not apprentice
 |Citizen=Unknown
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 John Witchells (b. ca. 1617; d. ?). Mariner.
-Gunner of the ship the ''Plough''.
+Gunner of the ship the ''Plough'' (Master: Philip Noyes).
 Resident in Limehouse in the parish of Stepney.

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 |Res country=England
 |Birth year=1617
 |Deposition start page(s)=HCA 13/71 f.573r Annotate,
 |Deposition date(s)=Mar 6 1657
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 |Has HCA evidence completed=No
 |Has source comment completed=No
 |Role in Silver Ship litigation=None
 }}

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 |Has opening text=John Witchells
 |Has signoff text=I
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 |Language skills=English language,
 |Res street=Limehouse
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 |Res county=Middlesex
 |Res country=England
 |Deposition start page(s)=HCA 13/71 f.573r Annotate,
 |Deposition date(s)=Mar 6 1657
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 ==Biographical synthesis==
-John Witchells (b. ca. ?; d. ?). Mariner.
+John Witchells (b. ca. 1617; d. ?). Mariner.
 Gunner of the ship the ''Plough''.
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 ==Evidence from High Court of Admiralty==
-Forty year old John Witchells deposed on March 6th 1657 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on an allegation in "A business of examination of wittnesses ad perpetuam rei memoriam touching certaine stormes which happened to the shipp called the ''Plough'' of which Philip Noyes is or was master and whatsoever goods on board the same lately brought in the sayd shipp from the Westerne Islands to this Port of London promoted by the sayd Noyes against all who have or pretend interest in the sayd shipp and her ladeing"<ref>[[HCA 13/71 f.571v Annotate|HCA 13/71 f.571v]]</ref>
+Forty year old John Witchells deposed on March 6th 1657 in the High Court of Admiralty.<ref>[[HCA 13/71 f.573r Annotate|HCA 13/71 f.573r]]</ref> He was examined on an allegation in "A business of examination of wittnesses ad perpetuam rei memoriam touching certaine stormes which happened to the shipp called the ''Plough'' of which Philip Noyes is or was master and whatsoever goods on board the same lately brought in the sayd shipp from the Westerne Islands to this Port of London promoted by the sayd Noyes against all who have or pretend interest in the sayd shipp and her ladeing"<ref>[[HCA 13/71 f.571v Annotate|HCA 13/71 f.571v]]</ref>
 John Witchells stated that the ship the ''Plough'' was en route from the Westerne Islands to London when she met with "much stormie and tempestious weather". On January 7th 1657 "shee mett with such a storme of winde hayle and rayne (that lasted for above twenty fower houres) that shee thereby shipped much water the sea breaking often over her with that violence that this deponent and others were up to the knees in water upon deck, and one sea brake in at the sterage (sic) doore and runne downe into the Gunne roome and the sayd shipp and ladeing by reason of the violence of the sayd storme was in great danger of perishing