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West India hydes And further saving his foregoeing deposition
hee cannot answere not knowing the first cost of them./

To the 3 Interrogatorie hee saith the goodes dammaged were hydes and the dammage
was done both by shipping of a Sea and alsoe by reason of
leakeage occasioned by tempestious and stormy weather as
aforesayd And further saving his foregoeing deposition hee
cannot answere/

To the 4th hee saith hee sawe the sayd goodes landed at Southampton
And further to this Interrogatorie hee cannot answere./

To the 5th hee saith hee well knoweth that the sayd shipp at her
departure from New England was a stronge tight able and
sufficient shipp and fitt to carry any merchandize and is
well assured that the dammage which happened to her and her ladeing was
occasioned meerely by stresse of weather and tempest
and not through any age or rottennesse of the shipp And further saving
his foregoeing deposition hee cannot answere/

Repeated before doctor Godolphin/

Edward Milbery [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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The 3rd day of ffebruary 1656/ [CENTRE HEADING]

Ewers against Watts}
Clements Budd}

Examined on an allegation on behalfe of the sayd
William Watts./

Rp. EA 1us

William Wilkinson of Shadwell in the parish of Stepney
and county of Middlesex Mariner aged fifty sixe yeares
or thereaboutes a wittnesse sworne and examined saith
and deposeth as followeth videlicet./

To the first article hee saith hee cannot depose./

To the second third fowerth and fifth articles of the sayd allegation hee saith that hee this deponent
was by the arlate Phillipp Ewers hyred to Pylott the shipp the William
of London from London to the downes in order to her proceeding on a
voyage to Virginia And saith that after hee this deponent had Pylotted
the sayd shipp from London to Gravesend shee there stayed by the
space of three weekes and some odd dayes though the winde and weather
was fayre for her departure from thense, and the sayd Ewers caused not the sayd
shipp to bee cleered from thense during the sayd tyme, And saith that
in the moneth of december 1654 (the certayne day hee remembreth
not) the winde being Easterly and weather being fayre this deponent sett sayle from
Gravesend with the sayd shipp and at Tilbury hope the sayd
Ewers and his wife came aboard the sayd shipp and sayled in
her to Lee, where they went a shoare, and the shipp laye
there at Anchor about five or sixe and twenty dayes with the winde
at North East, And this deponent in the meane tyme sent word by
one Bonner the brother in lawe of the sayd Ewer that hee thought
it fitt that the sayd shipp in order to the speedding of her voyage
should bee sayled thence through the North Channell
and this deponent was ready and desyrous to haue done the same
but