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Transcription

To the second article hee saith that upon the twentie fifth day of November one
thousand sixe hundred fifty fower this deponent well knoweth that the ship
the William whereof the arlate Phillip Ewers was Master was then
riding at Anchor neere Gravesend and hee this deponent with his ship the
ffreeman whereof hee was Master laye then there alsoe at Anchor and see sayle
there that day leaving the William there still lying at Anchor And further
to this article hee cannot depose/

To the 3 hee cannot depose./

To the 4th hee cannot depose/

To the 5th and 6th articles hee cannot depose/

To the 7th article hee saith that hee this deponent came with his shipp the
ffreeman into James River in Virginia the twenty sixth of January
one thousand sixe hundred fiftie fower and stayed there till about the 30th
day of May 1655 at which tyme hee sett sayle there the And saith that while
hee laye there the sayd shipp the William in or about the moneth of Aprill
1655 arrived in James River in Virginia and not before And further
to this article hee cannot depose/

To the 10th and 11th hee cannot depose/

To the 12th hee cannot depose

To the 13th hee saith hee knoweth that the shipp Seaven Sisters arlate arrived in James
River in Virginia the same day which this deponents shipp arrived there
being the 26th of January 1654 And further to this article
hee cannot depose saveing hee saith hee verily beleveeth and is perswaded
in his conscience that if the sayd Ewer had with his shipp the William
arrived in Virginia in the moneth of January 1654 as this deponent with
his shipp did hee the sayd Ewer might in all probability
have proceed full ladeing for his shipp the William as well as this
deponent did for his shipp the ffreeman/.

To the 14th hee cannot depose./

To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true./

To the Interrogatories/. [CENTRE HEADING]

To the first Interrogatorie hee answereth negatively

To the 2 hee was not Mariner nor Officer in the shipp Interrogate
And further cannot answere/

To the 3 Interrogatorie hee saith that Robert ffoxe was Master of the shipp Margarett
in the yeare 1654 and bound for Virginia and was gone from Gravesend with
his sayd shipp upon his voyage to Virginia about a moneth before this deponent
with his shipp the ffreeman sett sayle form Gravesend for Virginia, and saith
both the sayd ffox and Ewers shipp arrived in Virginia in or about the
moneth of Aprill ˹Xnext following and not before And further hee cannot answere./

To the last hee cannot answere knowing nothing the contents thereof

Repeated before doctor Godolphin/

Jn:e Whitty [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]