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The 28th of February 1655/
Examined upon … The 28th of February 1655/
Examined upon the sayd allegation./
'''3us'''
'''John Withers''' of Deptford, in the county of Kent mariner<br />
aged fifty eight yeares or thereabouts a wittness sworne and<br />
examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet./
To the fifth article of the sayd allegation his saith he cannot depose hee not being<br />
privie to the Charterparty now letter in his article mentioned./
To the second article of the sayd allegation hee saith hee well knoweth that the shipp<br />
the ''Prosporous'' did upon the thirteenth of october 1655 safely arive in Oratava<br />
Roade at the Island of Teneriff one of the Canarie Islands in Company of the shipp<br />
''Richard'' whereof his this deponents precontest henry Sheeves was commander and of<br />
the ''Exchange'' Mr yonge Commander and some other English shipps the names where[?of GUTTER]<br />
hee doth not remember, and there came to an Anchor, and there rode at Anchor till<br />
the nynteenth or twentith day of the sayd moneth of October in expectation of orders from the<br />
factors and Agents of his deposeth of his sight and knowledge being Masters Mate<br />
of the ''Richard'' and of the shipps that came into the sayd Roade with the ''Prosporous''<br />
and lay at Anchor neere her during such her staye there, And further saving his<br />
subsequent deposition hee cannot depose./
To the 3 article of the sayd allegation and the schedule therein mentioned hee saith<br />
that hee well knoweth that whilst the ''Prosporous'' and ''Richard'' and ''Exchange'' aforesayd<br />
and other English shipps for lay at Anchor in the saye Roade of oratava, there came<br />
a generall letter sent (as hee beleeveth) from the English ffactors and Merchants of Teneriff upon<br />
the twenty seaventh of October (new style) and seaventeenth (old style) being the day<br />
of the date of the sayd letter, which letter hee saith was amongst others subscribed<br />
with the names of the arlate Arthur Ingram and david Stephens, And<br />
saith the schedule arlate is of his deponeth knowledge (whose hand writing it is) a<br />
true Coppy of the originall letter soe sent from the factors and Merchants<br />
whose names and subscribed thereto and saith hee writt the sayd letter [?or ?schedule] by the sayd<br />
originall at the request of the sayd Smith Master of the ''Prosporous'' and<br />
therefore and alsoe for that hee helped to compare the same coppie with the originall letter<br />
knoweth that the same doth agree with the sayd originall, And alsoe saith<br />
the words John Withers and alsoe his this deponents owne hand writing which hee sett<br />
to the sayd Coppie in testimony that the same did agree with the sayd originall, and<br />
saith hee since the rest of the parties who have attested under their hands the<br />
concordanse of the sayd letter with the originall, subscribe their names in<br />
manner as now they are to the said schedule, And further to the sayd article and<br />
schedule hee cannot depose./
To the 4th article of the sayd allegation he saith that after the sayd generall<br />
letter receaved, and not before, all the English shipps in the Roade of Oratava<br />
departed thense videlicet about the 19th and 20th dayes of October aforesayde (old style)<br />
and amongst the rest the ''Prosporous'' and the ''Richards'' and the ''Exchange'' and the<br />
''Katherine'' (Captaine Russell Commander of her) and saith the sayd shipps before<br />
named and others went to the Maderas and there tooke in fresh water and<br />
and stayed about a day and a nights tyme and then the ''Prosporous'' the ''Richard''<br />
the ''Katherine'' and some other shipps came from the Maderas and arrived againe in Oratava<br />
roaderrived againe in Oratava<br />
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