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B:16:/

The 13th of ffebruary 1656/ [CENTRE HEADING]

Carr against Watts}

Examined in an allegation on behalf of the sayd Watts

Rp. EA 8us

Thomas Potter of London Merchant aged 39 yeares
or thereabouts a wittnesse sworne and examined saith
and deposeth as followeth videlicet./

To the first second third fourth fifth sixth seaventh eighth ninth tenth
and eleventh articles of the allegation hee cannot depose/

To the twelfth article of the sayd allegation hee saith that hee hath bin a
trader for tobaccoe to Virginia these fifteene yeares last or upwards
and thereby knoweth that if shipps came not thither to receave their ladeing
of tobacco by or before the middle of March in any yeare the Inhabitants of
Virginia and such as have tobaccoe to send from thense for England doe
usually then give over any expectation of shipps their arrival there from
England that yeare, and therefore usually after the middle of
March is once past send their tobaccoes for England by any ship after that,
and if noe shipps
bee present then they doe usually barter away for a quantitie of
tobaccoe to be given them the next harvest, or else for other Commodities,
or else send it for New England or other places, which they soe doe in
regard that tobaccoe is in Virginia a very perishing Commoditie by
reason of the heate of that Country in summer tyme in soe much that
of this deponents knowledge it will not keepe from one harvest to an
other and is therefore usually disposed of if possible by the middle
of March at furthest next after the growth thereof And hee this deponent
having some yeares tobaccoes (which for want of
shipping Comming in convenient tyme have not bin sent for England but
kept in Virginia till the next yeare after their growth, well knoweth that the
sayd Tobaccoes have by being soe kept bin rendered of little of
or noe value And further to this article hee cannot depose/

To the 13th hee saith that hee this deponent was in the moneth of October
1654 in the downes on board the ship the Crescent of which
Captaine Thomas Thurrowgood was master of the sayd ship being then bound for Virginia
and saith at the same tyme the James of London the Goulden Lyon
the Seaven Sisters and the John and Katherine with severall other shipps
all then bound for Virginia, laye then in the downes, and this deponent saw
them all sett sayle from there in the sayd moneth of October 1654,
And as hee hath heard and beleeveth they arrived in Virginia as in the
moneth of January or ffebruary next following and as hee hath
heard and beleveeth returned there without any dead freight And soe
hee beleeveth might the arlate Ewers if hee had arrived in Virginia
soe some that yeare as they did And further hee cannot depose./

To the 14th article of the sayd allegation hee saith that hee this deponent
and some others as one Arthur Bayly and Mr Kent and others had in the
yeare 1654 taken tonnage for Tobacco in the arlate shipp the Margarett
whereof the arlate Robert ffox was Master and saith the this deponent
received letters of Advice that the sayd shipp (though hee knoweth shee went out
of the downes in October 1654) was by stresse of weather driven to Antegoe and
antegoe