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The sayd shipp in the searchers office at … The sayd shipp in the searchers office at London but saith ship went not<br />
downe to Gravesend till about the middle of November and after she had<br />
bin there a weeke or two this deponent went downe to Gravesend and went aboard,<br />
and saith after the deponent came aboard her which was towards the latter end of November aforesayd the sayd shipp laye there till<br />
the twelfth of December 1654 on which day the sayd Ewers weighed<br />
Anchor and sayled noe further then Lee before hee came to anchor againe<br />
where night approaching hee came to Anchor againe And further to this<br />
article hee cannot depose./
To the 4th and 5th and 6th article of the sayed allegation hee saith hee goeing in the<br />
sayed shipp from Gravesend the whole voyage in question knoweth that the sayd<br />
Ewers carried his wife with him in the sayd shipp from Gravesend to Lee and<br />
that they there went both on shoare, and the winde being then East North East<br />
and not well serveing for the sayed shipp to goe downe, the sayed shipp<br />
weighed anchor thense about the latter end of December 1654<br />
and went downe as lowe as the Boye of the Nower which is about eight<br />
myles from Lee Roade and stayed there one night, but the winds blowing very<br />
fresh forced the sayed shipp up to Lee Roade againe the next day, where shee<br />
continued at Anchor till the seventh or eighth day of January 1654<br />
during all which tyme of the sayed shipp her lyeing at Lee Roade from<br />
her first coming there to Anchor till her last departure from thense upon<br />
the sayed seaventh or eighth day of January aforesayd the sayed Ewers was<br />
seldome on board the sayd shipp and hee alsoe saith of his this deponents<br />
knowledge about two or thee dayes after the sayed shipp came first to<br />
an Anchor in Lee Roade two East India shipps the one named the ''Love''<br />
whereof the arlate Elias Jordan was Captaine and the other a shipp whereof<br />
the arlate Goslin or Gosnell was Master did turne downe the North Channell<br />
and sayle towards the downes, and this deponent heard<br />
William Wilkinson the Pylott of the ''William'' who had the charge of her<br />
to Pylott her from London to the downes sayd on board the ''William'' that while the sayd shipp<br />
soe laye at anchor in Lee Roade hee sent one Bo[XX]er on Shoare<br />
to the sayed Ewers to desyre him to come on board the sayed shipp, and<br />
that the shipp might turne downe the sayed North Channell alsoe as the<br />
other shipps did, but the sayed Ewers (as the sayed Pylott told this<br />
deponent) would not consent thereto, but sent words that the winde blew<br />
too hard and that hee would not venter the shipp downe or to that effect,<br />
And further hee cannot depose saving hee saith that the sayed Ewer coming<br />
on board the sayed shipp upon or about the 8th day of January aforesayed<br />
the sayd shipp in Company of severall other shipps which lay in Lee Roade<br />
sett sayle from thense and arrived in the downes about the nynth of the<br />
sayd moneth and did not sett sayle thense till about the 17th of<br />
the sayed moneth./
To the 7th and 8th articles of the sayed allegation hee saith that the<br />
sayed Pillipp (sic) Ewers the weather being stormy did with other shipps that<br />
were in company with him and bound some for the Streights, and others to the East<br />
Indies, put into ffalmouth (not withstanding the shipp the ''Recovery''<br />
whereof the arlate John Yonge was Master bound for Virginia did keepe at<br />
Sea and went not in thither) and there continued until the twenty seaventh<br />
of January 1654, which was about six dayes or tyme, by reason whereof<br />
and by the sayed Ewers his stayeing soe longe in the River of<br />
Thamese longe in the River of<br />
Thames +
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