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and fitt to proceede on a voyage and furth … and fitt to proceede on a voyage and further hee<br />
cannot depose
To the Interrogatories [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first Interrogartorie hee cometh to testifie in this cause at the request<br />
of the producent Mr Lee and to the rest of the Interrogatorrie hee<br />
answereth negatively
To the 2: 3: 4th and 5th hee saith hee was none of the Company of<br />
the ''Samuell'' nor aboard her tyme Interrogated and further saving his<br />
foregoeing deposition hee cannot answere/
Repeated with his Contest before doctor Godolphin
William Shearwood [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 27th of February 1656/
Cowse against Jeggles}<br />
Suckley Smith}
Examined on an allegation on behalfe of the sayd<br />
Jeggles
'''Rp. 4'''
'''James Manfeild''' of Saint Olave in Southwarke<br />
Mariner aged fifty yeares or thereabouts a wittnes<br />
sworne and examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet
To the first article hee saith this deponent hath well knowne the articulate<br />
daniell Jeggles for these fower or five yeares last past, and within<br />
that tyme gone his Mate for severall voyages, and thereby knoweth that hee<br />
was and is an able and skillfull Seaman and hath performed his<br />
office as Master of shipps very well, and is a man fitt to goe Master<br />
and Commander of a shipp to any Port, And for such is commonly reputed<br />
among Masters of shipps and other Mariners who are well skilled<br />
in Navigation And further hee cannot depose/
To the 2 hee saith that hee this deponent was Masters Mate of the ''Anne''<br />
the voyage in question until such tyme as shee came from New England<br />
back to the Barbados, where hee left her, and knoweth the sayd Jeggles was<br />
Master of her that voyage, And saith that of his this deponents sight and<br />
knowledge the Port of Porto Port in Portugall is a barrd Port, and by<br />
reason of the barr and alsoe by reason a great fresh doth usually runne<br />
downe the Port and the Port is very narrowe and rockie on the one side<br />
and sandie on the other, it is very dangerous to put thereinto, and the same<br />
is not to be entered but about three quarters flood, and that with a<br />
good fresh gale of winde to stemme the fresh, in soe much that noe shipp<br />
(as this deponent hath heard by diverse seamen who frequent that Port)<br />
doe goe in thither without the assisstance of a pylott belonging to that place<br />
or to some other Port neere thereabouts and well aquainted with the sayd<br />
Port (although the shipps to goe in doe belong to the sayd Port) And<br />
further to this article hee cannot depose/
To the 3 article of the sayd allegation hee saith that the sayd daniell Jeggles<br />
of this deponents knowledge (being his Mate and aboard came first neere to<br />
Portooard came first neere to<br />
Porto +
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