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1. one thousand six hundred fifty fower the sayd Ewers had much stormey
2. weather and Contrary windes which after that day did much hinder his
3. passage to Virginia and beleeveth the sayd Ewer after the sayd 12th of
4. December did doe his indeavour to gett to Virginia soe soone as hee could
5. and that neglect was in him was before the sayd 12th of december
6. one thousand six hundred fifty four And further saving his foregoeing
7. deposition hee cannot answere/
8. To the 3d hee saith hee knoweth not what tyme the Interrogate Robert ffoxe sett
9. sayle with the Margarett whereof hee was Master, from Gravesend, but
10. saith hee beleeveth the sayd shipp arrived in Virginia either upon the same
11. ˹day˺ or but some few dayes before the sayd Ewers shipp the William did
12. arrive there And further hee cannot answere/
13. To the 4th hee saith hee knoweth that the sayd Ewers did stay at
14. Virginia ffowerscore dayes or thereabouts to take in ladeing of the producent
15. Walls and other mens, but by reason of his the sayd Ewers soe late
16. arrivall at of Virginia the most part of the Tobaccoes there were
17. shipped in other shipps before the sayd Ewers his arrivall by
18. meanes whereof the sayd Ewers returned thence dead freighted
19. but to what quantitie hee knoweth not And further cannot answere
20. Repeated before doctor Godolphin
21. Lawe Thompson SIGNATURE, RH SIDE
22.
23. The sixth of ffebruary 1656
24. Examined on the sayd allegation/
25. <margin value="Left">{dt} 5X</margin>
26. Edward Gunnell of Ratcliff in the County of Middlesex27. aged fifty yeares or thereabouts a wittnesse sworne and
28. examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet./
29. To the first secoind third fowerth fifth and sixth articles of the sayd allegation
30. hee saith that in the yeares one thousand sixe hundred fiftie fower and one thousand
31. sixe hundred fiftie five hee this deponent went Cape merchant of the shipp the
32. Peter and ˹John˺ for a voyage then made with her from this Port of London to James River
33. in Virginia and that the sayd shipp the Peter and John came into Lee Roade
34. bound towards Virginia upon the twenty nynth day of December 1654 where hee
35. then sawe the shipp William of London whereof the arlate Phillip Ewers was
36. then Master lyeing in Lee Roade at Anchor, where the and saith but how longe the
37. sayd Ewers shipp had layne in Lee Roade before the sayd 29th day of December 1654
38. hee knoweth not And hee further saith that the sayd Ewers with his shipp, the William
39. in Company of the Peter and John sett sayle from Lee Roade about
40. the eighth day of January 1654 and both the sayd shipps arrived in the downes
41. the tenth day of the sayd moneth and they both sett sayle thense on the seaven=
42. teenth day of the sayd moneth And further to these articles hee cannot depose
43. for that hee knoweth not when the sayd Ewers sealed his Charterparty nor anything
44. touching his setting up till upon the Exchange touching ˹nor˺ when hee cleared his
45. shipp out of the searchers office at London nor at Gravesend nor how longe
46. hee lay at Gravesend nor when hee weighed Anchor from thense and sayled to
47. Lee Roade ˹nor what shipps passed by him there XXXX XXXXX into the downes before the sayd 29th of december 1654˺ saving hee saith hee sawe the sayd Ewers his shipp in the moneth
48. of October 1654 lye in the River of Thames ready graved and fitted for XXX
49. and some passengers on board her and to this deponents Judgment ready to fall
50. <margin value="Bottom right, under main body of text, as lead to next page">downe</margin>

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