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<header>
<series>HCA 13/71</series>
<folio>f.538r</folio>
<picture>P1140245</picture>
<summary></summary>
<document-date></document-date>
<status>First cut transcription completed on 28/10/12 by Deborah Ashby; suggested edits on 28/10/12 by Colin Greenstreet; edited on 27/11/12 by Colin Greenstreet; pasted into wikispot on 08/05/14 and edited on 22/05/14 by Colin Greenstreet</status>
<first-transcriber>Deborah Ashby, 28/10/12</first-transcriber>

The sayd shipp in the searchers office at London but saith ship went not
downe to Gravesend till about the middle of November and after she had
bin there a weeke or two this deponent went downe to Gravesend and went aboard,
and saith after the deponent came aboard her which was towards the latter end of November aforesayd the sayd shipp laye there till
the twelfth of December 1654 on which day the sayd Ewers weighed
Anchor and sayled noe further then Lee before hee came to anchor againe
where night approaching hee came to Anchor againe And further to this
article hee cannot depose./

To the 4th and 5th and 6th article of the sayed allegation hee saith hee goeing in the
sayed shipp from Gravesend the whole voyage in question knoweth that the sayd
Ewers carried his wife with him in the sayd shipp from Gravesend to Lee and
that they there went both on shoare, and the winde being then East North East
and not well serveing for the sayed shipp to goe downe, the sayed shipp
weighed anchor thense about the latter end of December 1654
and went downe as lowe as the Boye of the Nower which is about eight
myles from Lee Roade and stayed there one night, but the winds blowing very
fresh forced the sayed shipp up to Lee Roade againe the next day, where shee
continued at Anchor till the seventh or eighth day of January 1654
during all which tyme of the sayed shipp her lyeing at Lee Roade from
her first coming there to Anchor till her last departure from thense upon
the sayed seaventh or eighth day of January aforesayd the sayed Ewers was
seldome on board the sayd shipp and hee alsoe saith of his this deponents
knowledge about two or thee dayes after the sayed shipp came first to
an Anchor in Lee Roade two East India shipps the one named the Love
whereof the arlate Elias Jordan was Captaine and the other a shipp whereof
the arlate Goslin or Gosnell was Master did turne downe the North Channell
and sayle towards the downes, and this deponent heard
William Wilkinson the Pylott of the William who had the charge of her
to Pylott her from London to the downes sayd on board the William that while the sayd shipp
soe laye at anchor in Lee Roade hee sent one Bo[XX]er on Shoare
to the sayed Ewers to desyre him to come on board the sayed shipp, and
that the shipp might turne downe the sayed North Channell alsoe as the
other shipps did, but the sayed Ewers (as the sayed Pylott told this
deponent) would not consent thereto, but sent words that the winde blew
too hard and that hee would not venter the shipp downe or to that effect,
And further hee cannot depose saving hee saith that the sayed Ewer coming
on board the sayed shipp upon or about the 8th day of January aforesayed
the sayd shipp in Company of severall other shipps which lay in Lee Roade
sett sayle from thense and arrived in the downes about the nynth of the
sayd moneth and did not sett sayle thense till about the 17th of
the sayed moneth./

To the 7th and 8th articles of the sayed allegation hee saith that the
sayed Pillipp (sic) Ewers the weather being stormy did with other shipps that
were in company with him and bound some for the Streights, and others to the East
Indies, put into ffalmouth (not withstanding the shipp the Recovery
whereof the arlate John Yonge was Master bound for Virginia did keepe at
Sea and went not in thither) and there continued until the twenty seaventh
of January 1654, which was about six dayes or tyme, by reason whereof
and by the sayed Ewers his stayeing soe longe in the River of
Thames

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