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of warr are very fearefull to come out wit … of warr are very fearefull to come out with their boates, and cannot<br />
come out if any ill weather happen, And further saving his subsequent<br />
deposition hee cannot depose
To the 3 article he saith for that hee kept a journall of the passages in<br />
the voyage in question hee knoweth that the sayd daniell came with his<br />
shipp the ''Anne'' neere Porto Port upon or about the 12th of November<br />
1654 and about two or three of the clock in morning, at which<br />
tyme it was very darke, and the winde blew Easterly and very<br />
scant, by reason whereof and of the darkenesse the sayd daniell did<br />
overshoote the sayd Port about three or fower leagues to southwards<br />
And further hee cannot depose
To the 4th 5th 6th and 7th articles that upon the hee saith that the same<br />
12th day of November the sayd Jeggles when it was cleere day<br />
did take observation of the latitude hee was in, and thereby found<br />
that hee had overshott the sayd Port, and therupon the sayd Jeggles<br />
tacked about and made upto the sayd Port soe fast as the winde and weather<br />
would permitt, and came before the sayd Port againe upon the thirteenth<br />
of the sayd moneth, and (according as is usuall in such cases) made<br />
a weft and shott two or three shotts to two or three boates they espied, to have a pylott<br />
come aboard to carry in the sayd shipp, but the sayd boates companyes<br />
fearing (as this deponent beleeveth) that the ''Anne'' was some Turkish<br />
man of warr diverse of them frequenting that coast) made awaye,<br />
and would not come neere the ''Anne'' and the ''Anne'' having waited<br />
in expectation of a pylott till the flood was spent and night began<br />
to approach it being and noe Pylott arriving from shoare, and it being<br />
likely to prove fowle weather, the sayd Jeggles to prevent the danger of<br />
being driven on shoare with his shipp, stood off to see for the<br />
better security of her, her ladeing and Companyes lives, And saith<br />
the sayd thirteenth day at night the weather proved very stormy and<br />
the winde blew very strong to shoare, soe that in this deponents Judgement<br />
and in the Judgement of other semen of the ''Annes'' Company if the sayd<br />
shipp had not put out to sea as shee did, but layne all night before<br />
Porto Port, shee and her ladeing together with her Company had<br />
without doubt perished in the sea, And hee saith that the weather continued<br />
very tempestuous on the fourteenth of the sayd moneth and the<br />
winde shifted and came Northerly for that (in this deponents Judgement)<br />
there was noe possibility of gaining Porto Port untill the winde and<br />
weather did alter, and there upon Edmond Cowse the brother<br />
of the articulate James Cowse did upon the shipps deck openly saye (before<br />
this deponent and severall others of the sayd shipps Company whose names<br />
hee at present remembereth not) that it was better for the sayd shipp to goeat it was better for the sayd shipp to goe +
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