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Transcription

before hee sett from Gravesend the sayd shipp William arrived not in James
River in Virginia untill the two and twentieth day of Aprill 1655 And
further hee cannot to these articles depose/

To the 9th hee cannot depose/

To the 10th hee saith hee knoweth that after the sayd shipp the William arrived
in Virginia this deponent heard by divers in Virginia that before
her arrivall, there, there was about the latter end of March or beginning of Aprill 1655 a report in Virginia by reason shee
was soe longe before shee came thither, that the sayd shipp was either
cast away or taken by the ffrench as prize and that shee would not
come to Virginia that yeare And further to this article hee cannot depose

To the 11th hee saith hee cannot depose not knowing what tonnage the arlate
Walls had in the sayd Ewers shipp, nor what hee writt to the sayd
arlate Samuell Mathews thereabout, nor what tobaccoes the sayd Mathews
laded aboard other shipps before the arrivall of the sayd Ewers shipp, nor
what tobaccoes hee laded aboard Ewers shipp after her arrivall./

To the 12th hee saith that hee hath used the trade of Virginia for these
eight yeares last past and thereby knoweth that it is the Constant practize
and custome in Virginia with those that have Cropps of tobaccoe
there (if they bee not certayne of the arrivall of a shipp to transporte
them in afterwards) to send the same after the middle of March is
once past for England by any shipps or vessells that they can and if
none bee present then to barter the same away to any that will take
it for the like quantitie to bee given them to Cropp following, or
to send it to New England or other places if they can in regard
tobaccoe will not without extraordinary care had thereto keepe
in Virginia from one harvest to an other, and therefore is usually
disposed of about the middle of March at the furthest next after
the growth thereof, unlesse as aforesayd they bee sure of some shipp
that will arrive to lade the same And further to this article hee cannot depose

To the 13 hee saith hee knoweth that the James the Golden Lyon the Seaven
Sisters and the John and Katherine did goe to Virginia
the voyage arlate but the tyme when they were cleered at Gravesend
or of their departure thense, or arrivall at Virginia, hee knoweth not, and
further cannot depose saving hee saith hee verily beleeveth the sayd Ewers
if hee had not stayed soe longe at Gravesend and other places, but gone directly
on his voyage to Virginia in October 1654 according as hee promised
to doe might have come in tyme convenient to Virginia and not
have returned thense dead freighted as hee did And further hee
cannot depose/

To the 14th hee cannot depose saving

To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true/

To the Interrogatories/ [CENTRE HEADING]

To the first hee answereth negatively for his part

To the 2 hee saith hee is a mariner, but was none of the mariners of the
Company of the William the voyage in question, but only a passenger
in her both outwards and homewards bound, and continued abaord from
Gravesend to Virginia and from her returne from Virginia till her arrivall
at London where hee left her And saith that after the 12th of december
1654