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The 10th day of ffebruary 1656/ [CENTRE HE … The 10th day of ffebruary 1656/ [CENTRE HEADING]
Ewers agains Watts}
Examined upon the allegation on behalfe of Mr Watts
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'''John Fitch''' Cittizen and Merchant of London aged<br />
25 yeares or thereabouts a wittnes sworne and examined<br />
saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet./
To the first article of the sayd allegation hee saith that hee this deponent<br />
went a passenger in the shipp the ''William'' of London (whereof the arlate<br />
Phillip Ewers was Master) the voyage in question, and sawe and [?XXX GUTTER]<br />
knoweth that in the moneth of October one thousand sixe hundred fiftie [?four GUTTER]<br />
there were bills put up upon the Exchange London declaring<br />
to all whome they might concerne that hee the sayd Phillip Ewers [?did GUTTER]<br />
intende to bee gone and proceede upon the voyage in question before<br />
the end of the sayd moneth of October 1654 which bills were soe sett up as hee beleeveth by order of the sayd Ewers And further cannot depose
To the 2: 3 and 4th articles of the sayd allegation hee saith that hee this<br />
deponent goeing passenger in the sayd shipp for Virginia, went downe to<br />
Gravesend in the moneth of december 1654 and about the beginning of the sayd<br />
moneth, and went aboard the sayd shipp there, and thereby well knoweth<br />
the sayd shipp sett not sayle from Gravesend till about eight or tenne<br />
dayes after this deponent came aboard her there, and saith that the [?shipp GUTTER]<br />
being in that tyme cleered at Gravesend, and the winde being fayre [?for GUTTER]<br />
her departure thence, the sayd Ewers kept on shoare there and sett [?not GUTTER]<br />
sayle thence though the winde were fayre till about three dayes after<br />
being there cleered, And saith that about three dayes after the sayd [?shipp GUTTER]<br />
was there cleered the sayd Ewer came on board, and brought his wife<br />
with him, and sett sayle from Gravesend with his wife on board the sayd<br />
shipp and sayled noe further than Lee Roade, and there caused the<br />
shipp to be brought to an Anchor, And shee being brought to an Anchor<br />
there, the sayd Ewer and his wife went there on shoare, and the shipp<br />
continued there at Anchor about three weekes or a moneth next after<br />
her coming thither, in which tyme of her lyeing there the sayd Ewer<br />
kept on shoare, and came not above twice on board the sayd shipp [?untill GUTTER]<br />
the day shee sett sayle from thence, which was in the moneth of January<br />
and towards the beginning thereof, but what certayne day hee remembreth not<br />
And further to these articles hee cannot depose/
To the 5th article of the sayd allegation hee saith hee being a passenger<br />
and aboard as aforesayd therby knoweth that about two or three [?dayes GUTTER]<br />
after the sayd Ewers shipp came to an Anchor in Lee Roade as [?alsoe GUTTER]<br />
two shipps (the names of them or their Commanders hee knoweth [?not) GUTTER]<br />
sett sayle from Lee Roade through the North Channel to goe to [?the GUTTER]<br />
downes and soe on their voyage and (in this deponents Judgment) soe<br />
might the sayd Ewers have then done with his shipp the ''William'' if hee<br />
had bin on board and soe [?incly]nded, And saith that the sayd shipps being<br />
about to weigh goe Anchor and soe downe the North Channell the Pylott of the<br />
''William'' who was to Pylott her to the downes, whose name is [?XXXX GUTTER]<br />
did send worde on shoare by Stephen Bonner the brother of Lawe of the<br />
sayd Ewers to the sayd Ewers that the sayd two shipps were<br />
weighing sayd two shipps were<br />
weighing +
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