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weighing Anchor and ready to sayle downe t … weighing Anchor and ready to sayle downe the North Chanell<br />
into the downes and that if hee the sayd Ewer pleased to come<br />
on board hee the sayd Wilkinson was ready and would sayle the<br />
sayd shipp through the North Channell alsoe the winde being contrary to passe any other way out the fflattes and saith the sayd<br />
Bonner having bin on shoare with the sayd Ewer returned on board<br />
and brought word from him the sayd Ewer that hee would not venter (sic)<br />
the sayd shipp through the North Channell, And the sayd Ewer coming<br />
aboard the sayd shipp about a daye or two after the sayd Bonner returned<br />
and the Pylott then moveing him the sayd Ewer againe to permitt him<br />
to carrie the sayd shipp through the north Channell to the downes, the<br />
sayd Ewer openly upon the quarter deck in presense of this deponent<br />
and the sayd Bonner and one [?Rock] the Masters mate of the sayd<br />
Shipp and divers others speaking to the sayd Wilkinson sayd hee would<br />
not adventure the sayd shipp through the North Channell, or to that<br />
effect, and soe the sayd Ewer soone after the same day went [?XXXX] on<br />
shoare againe and there continued for the most part till the sayd<br />
moneth after her comming thither And further hee cannot depose
To the 6th hee saith that the sayd Ewer at length comming on board,<br />
the sayd shipp ''William'' sett sayle from Lee Roade in the moneth of<br />
January 1654 and came to an Anchor in the downes about the tenth<br />
of that moneth, and sett not sayle from thense till about eight or<br />
tenn dayes after, the premisses hee deposeth of his sight and knowledge<br />
being aboard And further hee cannot depose not knowing the date of<br />
the Charterpartie arlate./
To the 7th and 8th hee saith that the sayd shipp after her departure from the downes was togeather<br />
with other shipps who went in company with her in the moneth of January 1654 driven by streese of<br />
weather into ffalmouth where shee lay five or sixe dayes during which<br />
tyme the sayd Ewers kept on shoare untill such tyme as shee was ready<br />
to weigh Anchor thense, And saith that the arlate shipp the ''Recovery'' whereof<br />
the arlate John Youngs was Master (though in Company with the<br />
''William'' when the stresse of weather aforesayd happened) yet came not<br />
into ffalmouth at all, And saith that by reason of the sayd Ewer his<br />
lying with the sayd shipp the ''William'' arrived not in<br />
James River in Virginia till the two and twentieth day of Aprill<br />
one thousand sixe hundred fifty five, and further hee cannot depose<br />
saving hee saith the sayd Ewers after his comming out of ffalmouth<br />
lost the Company of other shipps that come thence with him about two<br />
or three dayes after setting sayle thence, but saith the same was occasioned by<br />
stresse of weather./
To the 9th hee cannot depose/
To the 10th and 11th hee saith hee cannot depose saving hee saith that<br />
in the moneth of Aprill 1655 after his arrivall in Virginia hee<br />
heard by divers Inhabitants there that in the moneth of March and<br />
Aprill Articulate, and before the arrivall of this shipp the ''William'' in Virginia<br />
there was a Common reporte in Virginia, that the sayd shipp ''William''<br />
wasthe sayd shipp ''William''<br />
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