HCA 13/71 f.542r Annotate

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weighing Anchor and ready to sayle downe the North Chanell
into the downes and that if hee the sayd Ewer pleased to come
on board hee the sayd Wilkinson was ready and would sayle the
sayd shipp through the North Channell alsoe the winde being contrary to passe any other way out the fflattes and saith the sayd
Bonner having bin on shoare with the sayd Ewer returned on board
and brought word from him the sayd Ewer that hee would not venter (sic)
the sayd shipp through the North Channell, And the sayd Ewer coming
aboard the sayd shipp about a daye or two after the sayd Bonner returned
and the Pylott then moveing him the sayd Ewer againe to permitt him
to carrie the sayd shipp through the north Channell to the downes, the
sayd Ewer openly upon the quarter deck in presense of this deponent
and the sayd Bonner and one [?Rock] the Masters mate of the sayd
Shipp and divers others speaking to the sayd Wilkinson sayd hee would
not adventure the sayd shipp through the North Channell, or to that
effect, and soe the sayd Ewer soone after the same day went [?XXXX] on
shoare againe and there continued for the most part till the sayd
moneth after her comming thither And further hee cannot depose

To the 6th hee saith that the sayd Ewer at length comming on board,
the sayd shipp William sett sayle from Lee Roade in the moneth of
January 1654 and came to an Anchor in the downes about the tenth
of that moneth, and sett not sayle from thense till about eight or
tenn dayes after, the premisses hee deposeth of his sight and knowledge
being aboard And further hee cannot depose not knowing the date of
the Charterpartie arlate./

To the 7th and 8th hee saith that the sayd shipp after her departure from the downes was togeather
with other shipps who went in company with her in the moneth of January 1654 driven by streese of
weather into ffalmouth where shee lay five or sixe dayes during which
tyme the sayd Ewers kept on shoare untill such tyme as shee was ready
to weigh Anchor thense, And saith that the arlate shipp the Recovery whereof
the arlate John Youngs was Master (though in Company with the
William when the stresse of weather aforesayd happened) yet came not
into ffalmouth at all, And saith that by reason of the sayd Ewer his
lying with the sayd shipp the William arrived not in
James River in Virginia till the two and twentieth day of Aprill
one thousand sixe hundred fifty five, and further hee cannot depose
saving hee saith the sayd Ewers after his comming out of ffalmouth
lost the Company of other shipps that come thence with him about two
or three dayes after setting sayle thence, but saith the same was occasioned by
stresse of weather./

To the 9th hee cannot depose/

To the 10th and 11th hee saith hee cannot depose saving hee saith that
in the moneth of Aprill 1655 after his arrivall in Virginia hee
heard by divers Inhabitants there that in the moneth of March and
Aprill Articulate, and before the arrivall of this shipp the William in Virginia
there was a Common reporte in Virginia, that the sayd shipp William
was