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Transcription

To the third hee saith hee hath used the sea theise fifteene
yeeres, and hath skill in sea mans worke, and some little in navigation
and saith hee hath knowne the said Jeggles about three yeares
who hee saith is an able seaman for ought this deponent knows
to contrary, having hit all his ports well the said voyage save
Port a Port, where there was some error as hee hath predeposed
and saith the said Jeggles hath bin a master of a shipp all the
said time of this deponents knowledge of him.

To the fourth hee saith hee conceiveth the said Jeggles did all
endeavour and used all possible meanes to get into Porto at
first comming with it, And otherwise hee cannot answer
saving as aforesaid, saving it was at last concluded with the
consent (as hee supposeth) of mr Edward Edmund Cowse who was aboard to
goe to Lisbone, after they were put Southward as aforesaid.

To the fifth hee cannot answer saving as aforesaid.

To the 6th hee cannot answer.

To the 7th hee referreth himselfe to his foregoeing deposition
and cannot otherwise answer.

Repeated before the two Judges in Court:/:

John Prentice [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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The 13th of January 1656./ [CENTRE HEADING]

Examined upon the sayd allegation

Rp. 2

John Thomas of London Chirurgion aged thirty [?three GUTTER]
yeares or thereabouts a wittnesse sworne and examined
saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet./

To the first article of the sayd allegation hee saith for that hee was
not present at the treatie or hyreing in this article mentioned hee
cannot depose to the contents thereof otherwise than as in his following
deposition is declared./

To the 2 hee saith that hee this deponent went Chirurgion in the shipp
arlate (being called the Anne of London the voyage in question and knoweth
that about the sixth of November 1654 the sayd shipp sett sayle from
the downes bound for Porto Port in Portugall and thense to the Barbadoes
and thense to the Canarie Islands and thense to the Barbadoes againe and
thense home to England, and that shee had severall goods on board her [?att GUTTER]
her departure from England and that the arlate daniell Jeggles was
Master of her the sayd voyage and tooke upon him the care and charge of
her as Master and came with her and her outward Cargo about tenn or
twelve dayes after her departure from the downes upon the Coast of
Portugall
and saith that the sayd shipp comming
neere Port a Port (the sayd Jeggles the Master having a little
before Committed the Care and ordering of the sayd shipp to his Mate
went to sleepe having not slept severall watches before) in which tyme
while the Master was soe asleepe the Mate did overshoote the Port of
Porto Port and the Master after hee came from
sleepe takeing an observation, found that the sayd shipp was
some