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and fitt to proceede on a voyage and further hee
cannot depose

To the Interrogatories [CENTRE HEADING]

To the first Interrogartorie hee cometh to testifie in this cause at the request
of the producent Mr Lee and to the rest of the Interrogatorrie hee
answereth negatively

To the 2: 3: 4th and 5th hee saith hee was none of the Company of
the Samuell nor aboard her tyme Interrogated and further saving his
foregoeing deposition hee cannot answere/

Repeated with his Contest before doctor Godolphin

William Shearwood [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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The 27th of February 1656/

Cowse against Jeggles}
Suckley Smith}

Examined on an allegation on behalfe of the sayd
Jeggles

Rp. 4

James Manfeild of Saint Olave in Southwarke
Mariner aged fifty yeares or thereabouts a wittnes
sworne and examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet

To the first article hee saith this deponent hath well knowne the articulate
daniell Jeggles for these fower or five yeares last past, and within
that tyme gone his Mate for severall voyages, and thereby knoweth that hee
was and is an able and skillfull Seaman and hath performed his
office as Master of shipps very well, and is a man fitt to goe Master
and Commander of a shipp to any Port, And for such is commonly reputed
among Masters of shipps and other Mariners who are well skilled
in Navigation And further hee cannot depose/

To the 2 hee saith that hee this deponent was Masters Mate of the Anne
the voyage in question until such tyme as shee came from New England
back to the Barbados, where hee left her, and knoweth the sayd Jeggles was
Master of her that voyage, And saith that of his this deponents sight and
knowledge the Port of Porto Port in Portugall is a barrd Port, and by
reason of the barr and alsoe by reason a great fresh doth usually runne
downe the Port and the Port is very narrowe and rockie on the one side
and sandie on the other, it is very dangerous to put thereinto, and the same
is not to be entered but about three quarters flood, and that with a
good fresh gale of winde to stemme the fresh, in soe much that noe shipp
(as this deponent hath heard by diverse seamen who frequent that Port)
doe goe in thither without the assisstance of a pylott belonging to that place
or to some other Port neere thereabouts and well aquainted with the sayd
Port (although the shipps to goe in doe belong to the sayd Port) And
further to this article hee cannot depose/

To the 3 article of the sayd allegation hee saith that the sayd daniell Jeggles
of this deponents knowledge (being his Mate and aboard came first neere to
Porto