| First transcribed
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21 September 2012 +
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| First transcriber
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David Pashley +
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| Folio
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230 +
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| Parent volume
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HCA 13/71 +
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| Side
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Recto +
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| Status
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Uploaded image; transcribed on 21/09/2012 +
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| Transcription
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'''A :15.'''
The 24th day of May, 1656/
… '''A :15.'''
The 24th day of May, 1656/
Phillipp Ewers Master of the ship called the ''William''}<br />
of London against William Watts and against all others etcetera}
Examined upon the libell given in on the part<br />
of the sayd Phillipp Ewers./
'''Rp. jus'''
'''Stephen Bonner''' of Rederiff in the county of Surrey<br />
Mariner aged 30 yeares or thereabout a wittnes sworne<br />
and examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet./
To the first article of the sayd libell hee saith that hee well knoweth that in<br />
and during all the tyme arlate the arlate Phillipp Ewers hath been and still<br />
is Master of the arlate shipp the ''William'' of London and soe commonly<br />
accompted and reputed this hee the better knoweth having bin one of the sayd shipps<br />
company all the tyme arlate, and the sayd Ewers Master of her during the voyage<br />
in question And further to this article hee cannot depose./
To the 2 and 3 4th and 5th articles of the sayd libell and the schedules or charterparty and [?protest] in the sayd articles mentioned he saith that hee this deponent<br />
being Masters Mate of the ship ''William'' the voyage in question well knoweth<br />
that the sayd Phillip Ewer sett sayle with his sayd ship from Gravesend<br />
the twelveth of November 1654 bound for James River in Virginia there<br />
to take in such ladeing as should be laded on board her for the Accompt<br />
of the arlate William Watts according to Charterparty made betweene the<br />
said Watts and Ewer And saith the sayd ship in persuance of her sayd voyage<br />
sett sayle the sayd 12th of November [CSG CHECK WHETHER THIS IS NOVEMBER OR DECEMBER]1654 from Gravesend and safely arrived<br />
in James River in Virginia on the 22th day of Aprill 1655, and shee being<br />
soe arrived hee this deponent soone after her arrivall did by order of the<br />
sayd Phillipp Ewer give to the arlate Samuell Mathews Esquire an Agent<br />
or factor for the arlate William Watts and gave him the sayd Mathews notice<br />
that the sayd shipp the ''William'' was come and arrived and that the sayd<br />
Ewer her Master and her company were ready to fetch and receave on<br />
board the sayd shipp according to Charterparty eighteene tonns and three<br />
hogsheads of tobaccoe for Accompt of the sayd William Watts And hee<br />
sayth that the sayd Matthews did send this deponent and fower others of<br />
the sayd shipps company with the sayd shipps boate or sloope to severall<br />
places upon James River aforesayd where (as hee sayd) the sayd Watts<br />
had tobaccoe lyeing) and this deponent at some places receaved some few<br />
hogsheads of tobaccoe and coming to one Robert Bourne who as the<br />
sayd Matthews sayd had divers hogsheads in his custodie for the Accompt<br />
of the sayd William Watts, and demanding the same of him to carry it on<br />
board the sayd shipp the sayd Bourne told this deponent that the sayd<br />
Tobaccoes which hee had in his custodie for Accompt of the sayd Watts<br />
were before this deponents coming to demand them by a former<br />
order of the sayd Samuell Mathews put and laden on board the shipp the<br />
''Peter and Jane'' of London and soe the sayd Ewer and Company being by<br />
that meanes disappointed of their ladeing did stay and continued<br />
with their sayd ship the ''William'' in James River from the sayd two and<br />
twentith of Aprill 1655 untill the first day of August next after expecting<br />
to havet next after expecting<br />
to have +
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