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but the sayd Ewer sent this deponent noe answere
back, but kept on shoare with his wife about the
space of a fortnight, and then came on board and stayed about the space of one
day, in which tyme this deponent importuned him to sayle the shipp downe
the North Channell and told him hee this deponent well knew the sayd
Channell and could carrie her readily through the same, but the sayd Ewers
sayd hee would not venter his shipp through that Channell, and soe went
a shoare againe, and stayed on shoare untill the day that this deponent
sett sayle toward the Downes which was in the moneth of January
one thousand sixe hundred fifty fower English style, but what day thereof hee
remembreth not, And saith that while hee this deponent soe laye in Lee
Roade expecting order from the sayd Ewer to sayle the sayd shipp thense,
and within two or three dayes after this deponents first comming into Lee Roade the shipp the Love whereof the arlate Elias Jordan was Captaine and an
other shipp whereof one Goslin was Master went from thense through the
North Channell as this deponent might alsoe have done if hee could have
perswaded the sayd Ewer thereto, all which delay was occasioned by the
sayd Ewers keepeing on shoare as aforesayd, And further hee cannot depose/

To the sixth article hee saith that in the sayd moneth of January 1654 (but
the Certaine day hee remembreth not) hee this deponent brought the sayd
shipp to an Anchor in the Downes, and having performed his Charge
as Pylott in bringing her safe thither, there left her, And further hee cannot
depose not knowing how longe shee stayed there nor the date of the Charterparty
arlate./

To the 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th and 14th articles hee cannot depose
for that as is predeposed hee left the sayd shipp after shee came to an Anchor
in the Downes hee having charge of her noe further/

To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true/

Repeated before doctor Godolphin/

William Wilkinson [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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The same day./

Examined on the sayd allegation/

Rp. 2

James Jenkins of the parish of Grassechurch in
ffanchurch streete London Merchant aged fifty sixe
yeares or thereaboutes a wittnesse sworne and examined
saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet./

To the first second third 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th and 9th articles of
the sayd allegation hee saith hee cannot depose/

To the 10th and 11th and 12th and thirteenth articles of the sayd allegation
hee saith that hee this deponent in the yeare 1654 was, and is a part owner of the arlate
shipp the Seaven Sisters whereof Abraham Read then was and still is Master
and thereby knoweth that the sayd shipp the Seaven Sisters was about
the beginning of November in the yeare 1654 Cleered at Gravesend
and then proceeded and sett sayle thense upon her voyage to Virginia and arrived
there safely (as by letters of advice sent him from the sayd Read hee was
given

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PROB 11/318/545 Will of James Jenkins, Merchant of Saint Benet Gracechurch, City of London. 21 November 1665