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To the 14th article of the sayd allegation … To the 14th article of the sayd allegation hee saith that the arlate<br />
Robert ffoxe his shipp did as the sayd ffoxe told this deponent returne<br />
from Virginia the voyage arlate with much dead freight, and the sayd ffoxe<br />
told this deponent in Virginia before the sayd ffoxe his departure thense, that<br />
hee had but three hundred hogsheads, or thereabouts aboard his shipp being<br />
able if full laden to have recvied upwards of sixe hundred, which want<br />
of ladeing was as hee verily beleeveth and is perswaded in his conscience<br />
by reason of the sayd ffoxe his late coming that yeare to Virginia, hee comming<br />
in on the very same day that hee this deponent came thither in the ''Peter<br />
and John'', And further to this article hee cannot depose knowing nothing<br />
touching the Arbitration arlate./
To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true/
To the Interrogatories./ [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first negatively./
To the 2 hee saith hee was none of the mariners or Company of<br />
the sayd Ewers shipp, but only Supra Cargo of the ''Peter and John''<br />
who kept Company with the sayd divers shipp as aforesayd from the<br />
twenty nynth day of december 1654 as aforesayd untill<br />
hee lost her at sea as aforesayd upon the 8th of ffebruary 1654 and<br />
sawe her noe more till her arrivall in James River as aforesayd, And<br />
saith hee knoweth that after the sayd Ewers shipp and the ''Peter and''<br />
''John'' weighed Anchor in the downes in their course togeather towards Virginia<br />
they mett with Contrary windes and thereupn putt in to ffalmouth,<br />
as aforesayd, and that they afterwards mett with fowle weather, whereby<br />
they were parted as aforesayd in their passage towards Virginia, And beleeveth<br />
the sayd Ewers from the sayd twenty nynth of december 1654 did not<br />
neglect any oportunitie to further his speedie voyage to Virginia, but<br />
had his being soe longe after that 29th day of december 1654<br />
before hee arrived at Virginia was only by reason of Crosse windes and<br />
badd weather, and that if any neglect were committed by the sayd Ewer<br />
it was by reason of his longe staye at London Gravesend<br />
or Lee before the sayd 29th of december 1654 when this deponent first<br />
came and found him there And further saving his foregoeing deposition<br />
hee cannot answere/
To the 3 hee saith hee knoweth the Interrate Robert ffox was master of the<br />
Shipp ''Margarett'' Interrate and arrived with her in Virginia the voyage Interrate<br />
upon the 22th of Aprill 1655 being the same day this deponent arrived there<br />
in the ''Peter and John'' and only about a day or two before the sayd Ewers shipp<br />
arrived, but and saith the sayd ffoxe sett out (as hee hath heard and verily<br />
beleeveth) from Gravesend upon his sayd voyage to Virginia in the<br />
moneth of October 1654 And further hee cannot answere./
To the 4th Interrogatorie hee saith that hee beleeveth the sayd Ewers did<br />
(the voyage in question) come from Virginia with dead freight but<br />
saith hee beleeveth the cause of his soe returning with dead freight was<br />
his arrivall soe late in Virginia And further hee cannot depose
Repeated before doctor Godolphin/
[?Edwd] Gunnell [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]hin/
[?Edwd] Gunnell [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] +
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