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To the 10th and 11th and 12th articles of … To the 10th and 11th and 12th articles of the sayd allegation hee saith that the sayd<br />
shipp the ''Anne'' from Porto Port went to Barbadoes, and from thense to<br />
New England, and thense back to the Barbadoes and from thense to Virginia and in her course from Barbadoes to Virginia hee saith shee mett<br />
with extraordinary stormy weather, and by force thereof lost her foremast<br />
fore top mast, sayles, yards and all her rigging saveing her foreyarde and<br />
foresayle and was thereby damnified in her hull and [?XXXX] her forecastle [?XXX] both [?alofte] and belowe (by helpe of which foreyarde and foresayle with much difficulty shee gott to Virginia)<br />
where the sayd Jeggles was for want of sayles and other<br />
rigging and by reason of the dammage done to her by the sayd storme constrayned to lye till about the beginning of Aprill last one thousand<br />
sixe hundred and fifty sixe, during which tyme the sayd Jeggles of this deponents<br />
knowledge did doe his utmost to fitt and furnish the sayd shipp to goe thense<br />
for the Barbadoes againe, but Virginia being a place that will not<br />
afford sayles and rigging for a shipp to make her in fitt capacity to goe<br />
thense to the Barbadoes, the sayd Jeggles was forced to make<br />
shifte with that fore yarde and fore sayle and the helpe of a topp sayle which<br />
hee caused to be made of an old sayle which was on board the sayd<br />
shipp to come for England with such ladeing as hee could procure at<br />
Virginia which was only a smale quantie of hogsheads<br />
of tobaccoe taken at freight for severall planters at Virginia, and<br />
some few hogsheads more for other persons (but for whome hee knoweth not)<br />
which was all the sayd Jeggles could gett by reason there were<br />
many shipps then in Virginia and that they had gotten what other<br />
ladeing was to bee then had there, notwithstanding (of this deponents<br />
knowledge) the sayd Jeggles did endeavour what hee could to get<br />
ladeing thense, either for England, holland, or Ireland, And this<br />
deponent knoweth that a shipp of London called the ''Sea horse'' which<br />
was then alsoe in Virginia (and a board which this deponent went<br />
severall tymes before her departure thence) came from Virginia hath<br />
only about a hundred hogsheads of tobacco which was not above<br />
halfe her ladeing which shee could have brought for England And<br />
further hee cannot depose
To the 13 hee saith hee heard one of the freighters (a planter of<br />
Virginia who laded some hogsheads of tobacco aboard the sayd<br />
shipp ''Anne'' sayd in presence of this deponent and others of the Company of the ''Anne'' that hee and the other planters who laded tobacco<br />
on board her did condition with the sayd Jeggles to have the same transported for Ireland,<br />
and that the said Jeggles should then staye with the sayd shipp five<br />
dayes to make sale thereof, and in case it could not bee there sold, then<br />
to transporte it thence to England, and that they would not have<br />
laden the same on board the sayd shipp but upon these conditions<br />
And further hee cannot depose./
To the 14th hee saith that of hee this deponents sight and knowledge, the sayd Jeggles<br />
did not, either at Virginia or any other Port or place, neglect any tyme<br />
but did his best endeavour for the benefitt and advantage of the said<br />
articulate James and Edmund Cowse soe farr as hee this deponent could and<br />
did observe And further hee cannot depose/did observe And further hee cannot depose/ +
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