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weather came the next on the thirteenth da … weather came the next on the thirteenth day (as hee and others of the shipps company supposed) neere to<br />
Oport, videlicet within five or sixe leagues thereof, and then discryeing severall fisher boates<br />
at sea, hee the sayd Jeggles made signes to them by puting out of his Colours, and<br />
dischargeing of gunnes to have them come to him and discover to him the entrance<br />
into the River of Oport that hee might come soe neere the barr as to have a<br />
pylott come from shoare to carrie him over the barr in to the sayd harbour or port<br />
of Oport, but the fishermen (supposeing as hee this deponent beleeveth) that the shipp had bin a Turkes man of warr (they usually infesting that<br />
Coast) made a way towards harbour and would not come neere the sayd<br />
Jeggles his shipp, whereupon the sayd Jeggles though the weather continued<br />
fayre would not adventure to goe neere the shoare but beate to and againe at<br />
sea, and the same night videlicet the thirteenth day of the sayd moneth at night<br />
the weather proved stormy and the winde blowing a fresh gale from the west the<br />
the shipp by force thereof was forced to leave that coast and come the next day<br />
being the fourteenth day of the sayd Moneth neere the Burlings which lyeth<br />
to the southwards of Oport and betwixt Oport and Lisbone, And then the premisses<br />
hee the better knoweth for that hee tooke a memoriall of the dayes and transactions<br />
aforesayd And furthe saith that upon the sayd fourteenth day of the sayd<br />
moneth the sayd Jeggles did publiquely upon the deck in the presence of this<br />
deponent and others on board the sayd shipp, acknowledge and confesse that he never<br />
had bin on that Coast and in the River of Oport but once before, and that<br />
then hee came in from Newfoundland directly upon it, from the sea, and that<br />
now comming alonge the shoare, the Coast had deceived him and that without<br />
procureing a Pylott hee would not undertake to carrie the sayd shipp soe neere<br />
the barr of Oport, as that hee might there receive a pylott to Carry<br />
her in over the barr, or words to that effect whereto this deponent replyed and<br />
and told the sayd Jeggles that hee had done very unadvisedly<br />
in undertakeing what hee was unable to performe, and asked him where such<br />
a Pylott as hee desyred, was then to bee procured, whereto hee answered that<br />
Lisbone was the neerest place where one was to bee had, and thereupon this<br />
deponent seeing the sayd Jeggles his ignorance of the Port, and that the weather<br />
was stormie, did consent that the sayd shipp should be sayled to Lisbone to<br />
gett a Pylott and the sayd Jeggles accordingly sayled her thither which is about<br />
fifty leagues from Oport and shee being come thither this deponent procured<br />
a pylott and in the tyme while shee stayed there to procure licence for her<br />
departure thence did cause some goods to bee unladen there and other goods<br />
laden aboard her instead of them, which being done this deponent ordered<br />
the sayd Jeggles to take the first oportunity to sayle to Oport, and soe this deponent<br />
went from Lisbone over land to Oport expecting the sayd Jeggles his speedy<br />
arrivall there but saith that it was two moneths and upwards after this deponents<br />
departure from Lisbone before the sayd Jeggles arrived with his sayd shipp<br />
from Lisbone at Oport, all which might have bin prevented if the sayd Jeggles<br />
at his first being neere Oport and while fayre weather lasted had not bin ignorant<br />
of the knowledge of the Coast as hee afterwards confessed hee was And further to this<br />
article hee cannot deposethis<br />
article hee cannot depose +
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