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was taken by the ffrench, and as this depo … was taken by the ffrench, and as this deponent heard some Inhabitants<br />
of Virginia saye) some who intended to lade tobaccoes upon the sayd<br />
Shipp the ''William'', (by reason of the sayd reports) did dispose of the same<br />
and lade it on board other shipps present in Virginia before the arrivall of the ''William''<br />
there And further to these articles hee cannot depose/
To the 12th article hee saith that hee this deponent lived in Virginia as<br />
an Inhabitant about the space of a yeare and a halfe and upwards, and<br />
hath bin a trader thither for these fower yeares last past and thereby knoweth<br />
and hath observed that tobaccoes is there generally disposed of (by such<br />
as have tobaccoes to send for England) by by middle of March<br />
next after the Cropp wherein it growes, by any shipping that is then<br />
there, and that what they cannot by that tyme lade they doe usually barther (sic)<br />
away for to whome they can, either in exchange for other goods or for<br />
the like quantitie of tobaccoe to be given them the next Cropp, which<br />
they doe for that Tobaccoe is in Virginia by reason of the heate there a<br />
perishable commodity and will not there keepe from one harvest to an<br />
other And further hee cannot depose/
To the 13th hee saith hee verly beleeveth and is fully perswaded in his<br />
conscience that if the sayd Ewer had sett sayle from London about<br />
the latter end of October 1654 according to his bills sett up in<br />
the Exchange to that effect, or had not stayed soe longe at Gravesend,<br />
Lee Roade, the downes, and ffalmouth as hee did hee might have<br />
arrived in Virginia in convenient tyme and have returned thence<br />
full freighted, (as hee beleeveth other shipps did, who were there before the sayd<br />
Ewers shipp) And further hee cannot depose./
To the 14th hee cannot depose/
To the last hee saith his foregoing deposition is true./
To the Interrogatories./ [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first Interrogatorie he{e} answereth negatively to every part thereof
To the 2 hee saith hee was only a passenger in the ''William''<br />
from Gravesend to Virginia and left her in James River in<br />
Virginia soone after her arrivall there and saith that the shipp the<br />
''William'' in her passage to Virginia had fowle weather<br />
at Sea which was some hinderance to her in her passage [?but GUTTER]<br />
beleeveth the sayd Ewers his neglect and staye at severall places as aforesayd<br />
soe longe after the tyme hee pretended by his bills hee would bee<br />
goeing, was the mayne cause why the sayd shipp arrived soe XXX GUTTER<br />
in Virginia as shee did, And further saving his foregoeing<br />
deposition hee cannot answere./
To the 3. hee cannot answere/
To the 4th. Interrogatorie hee saith hee cannot answere for that soone after<br />
the arrivall of the shipp ''William'' in Virginia hee went on shoare<br />
and about a weeke after came and fetched such goods from on board<br />
her as shee brought from England for him, and after wards came noe<br />
more on board her, but inhabited in Virginia for a yeare and a halfe [?and GUTTER]<br />
better afterwards/
Repeated before doctor Godolphin/
John ffitch [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]dolphin/
John ffitch [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] +
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