HCA 13/71 f.542v Annotate
| Volume | HCA 13/71 |
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| Folio | 542 |
| Side | Verso |
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| Colin Greenstreet | |
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| 12/10/28 | |
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1. was taken by the ffrench, and as this deponent heard some Inhabitants
2. of Virginia saye) some who intended to lade tobaccoes upon the sayd
3. Shipp the William, (by reason of the sayd reports) did dispose of the same GUTTER
4. ˹and lade it˺ on board other shipps present in Virginia before the arrivall of the William
5. there And further to these articles hee cannot depose/
6. To the 12th article hee saith that hee this deponent lived in Virginia as GUTTER
7. an Inhabitant about the sPace of a yeare and a halfe and upwards, and
8. hath bin a trader thither for these fower yeares last past and thereby knoweth GUTTER
9. and hath observed that tobaccoes is there generally disposed of (by such
10. as have tobaccoes to send for England) by by middle of March
11. next after the Cropp wherein it growes, by any shipping that is then GUTTER
12. there, and that what they cannot by that tyme ˹lade˺ they doe bather ˹usually˺ barther
13. away for to whome they can, either in exchange for other goods or for
14. the like quantitie of tobaccoe to be given them the next Cropp, which GUTTER
15. they doe for that Tobaccoe is in Virginia by reason of the heate there a
16. perishable commodity and will not ˹there˺ keepe from one harvest to an
17. other And further hee cannot depose/
18. To the 13th hee saith hee verly beleeveth and is ˹fully˺ perswaded in his
19. conscience that if the sayd Ewer had sett sayle from London about
20. the latter end of October 1654 according to his bills sett up in
21. the Exchange to that effect, or had not stayed soe longe at Gravesend,
22. Lee Roade, the downes, and ffalmouth as hee did hee might have
23. arrived in Virginia in convenient tyme and have returned thense GUTTER
24. full freighted, (as ˹hee beleeveth˺ other shipps did, who were there before the sayd
25. Ewers shipp) And further hee cannot depose./
26. To the 14th hee cannot depose/
27. To the last hee saith his foregoing deposition is true./
28.
29. To the Interrogatories./
30. To the first Interrogatorie he{e} answereth negatively to every part thereXX GUTTER
31. To the 2 hee saith hee was only a passenger in the William during
32. from Gravesend to Virginia and left her in James River in
33. Virginia soone after her arrivall there and saith that the shipp the
34. To the second William in her passage to Virginia had for XX XXXXXX GUTTER
35. at Sea which was some hinderance to her in her passage hee GUTTER
36. beleeveth the sayd Ewers ˹his neglect and˺ staye at severall places as aforesayd
37. soe longe after the tyme hee pretended by his bills hee would bee
38. goeing, was the mayne casue why the sayd shipp arrived soe XXX GUTTER
39. in Virginia as shee did, And further saving his foregoeing
40. deposition hee cannot answere./
41. To the 3. hee cannot answere/
42. To the 4th . Interrogatorie hee saith hee cannot answere for that soone after
43. the arrivall of the shipp William in Virginia hee went on shoare
44. and about a weeke after came and fetched such goods from on board
45. her as shee brought from England for him, and after wards came noe
46. more on board her, but inhabited in Virginia for a yeare and a halfe and GUTTER
47. better afterwards AnX/
48. <margin value="Left">Repeated before doctor Godolphin/</margin>
49. John ffitch SIGNATURE, RH SIDE
