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Transcription

The 10th day of ffebruary 1656/ [CENTRE HEADING]

Ewers agains Watts}

Examined upon the allegation on behalfe of Mr Watts

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John Fitch Cittizen and Merchant of London aged
25 yeares or thereabouts a wittnes sworne and examined
saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet./

To the first article of the sayd allegation hee saith that hee this deponent
went a passenger in the shipp the William of London (whereof the arlate
Phillip Ewers was Master) the voyage in question, and sawe and [?XXX GUTTER]
knoweth that in the moneth of October one thousand sixe hundred fiftie [?four GUTTER]
there were bills put up upon the Exchange London declaring
to all whome they might concerne that hee the sayd Phillip Ewers [?did GUTTER]
intende to bee gone and proceede upon the voyage in question before
the end of the sayd moneth of October 1654 which bills were soe sett up as hee beleeveth by order of the sayd Ewers And further cannot depose

To the 2: 3 and 4th articles of the sayd allegation hee saith that hee this
deponent goeing passenger in the sayd shipp for Virginia, went downe to
Gravesend in the moneth of december 1654 and about the beginning of the sayd
moneth, and went aboard the sayd shipp there, and thereby well knoweth
the sayd shipp sett not sayle from Gravesend till about eight or tenne
dayes after this deponent came aboard her there, and saith that the [?shipp GUTTER]
being in that tyme cleered at Gravesend, and the winde being fayre [?for GUTTER]
her departure thence, the sayd Ewers kept on shoare there and sett [?not GUTTER]
sayle thence though the winde were fayre till about three dayes after
being there cleered, And saith that about three dayes after the sayd [?shipp GUTTER]
was there cleered the sayd Ewer came on board, and brought his wife
with him, and sett sayle from Gravesend with his wife on board the sayd
shipp and sayled noe further than Lee Roade, and there caused the
shipp to be brought to an Anchor, And shee being brought to an Anchor
there, the sayd Ewer and his wife went there on shoare, and the shipp
continued there at Anchor about three weekes or a moneth next after
her coming thither, in which tyme of her lyeing there the sayd Ewer
kept on shoare, and came not above twice on board the sayd shipp [?untill GUTTER]
the day shee sett sayle from thence, which was in the moneth of January
and towards the beginning thereof, but what certayne day hee remembreth not
And further to these articles hee cannot depose/

To the 5th article of the sayd allegation hee saith hee being a passenger
and aboard as aforesayd therby knoweth that about two or three [?dayes GUTTER]
after the sayd Ewers shipp came to an Anchor in Lee Roade as [?alsoe GUTTER]
two shipps (the names of them or their Commanders hee knoweth [?not) GUTTER]
sett sayle from Lee Roade through the North Channel to goe to [?the GUTTER]
downes and soe on their voyage and (in this deponents Judgment) soe
might the sayd Ewers have then done with his shipp the William if hee
had bin on board and soe [?incly]nded, And saith that the sayd shipps being
about to weigh goe Anchor and soe downe the North Channell the Pylott of the
William who was to Pylott her to the downes, whose name is [?XXXX GUTTER]
did send worde on shoare by Stephen Bonner the brother of Lawe of the
sayd Ewers to the sayd Ewers that the sayd two shipps were
weighing