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Transcription

there necessitated to staye soe longe to repayre the dammage shee
had received by fowle weather, that thereby it was in the moneth of [?Aprill GUTTER]
1655 before sheee arrived in Virginia, by reason of which hee arived
there soe late the Correspondents of this deponent and of others who had
tonnage in her gave her over for lost, and verily believed she would
not come there that yeare, and thereupon disposed of their tobacco
which they were to send in her for this deponents Accompt and for
the Accompt of the sayd Bayly and Kent (or a great part thereof into
other shipps present in Virginia with whome they could get freight, and
whereupon hee saith the said ship the Margarett returned from
Virginia with about only halfe of her ladeing, and after her
comming home hee saith there happened some difference betwixt
this deponent, the sayd Bayly and Kent and the Owners of the sayd
ship touching the tonnage of this deponent and the sayd Kent and Bayly
which was not laden, for the freight of the sayd Tunnage, and
the same difference was by the Owners and this deponent and the sayd Kent and
Bayly referred to the arbitrament of Mr Jolliff Mr William
Allen Mr John Jefferies and Captain John Miller all merchants of
London who upon heareing the matter acquitted this deponent and the
sayd Bayly and Kent from payment of any dead freight which hee
saith they did for that the sayd shipp by the meanes aforesaid was
soe longe before shee arrived in Virginia that such as were [?XXX GUTTER]
traders there had disposed of their tobaccos or the greatest part thereof before shee came thither
And further to this article shee cannot depose./

To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true/

To the Interrogatories/ [CENTRE HEADING]

To the first negatively./

To the 2 hee saith hee was noe Mariner nor officer in the shipp
Interrogate the voyage in question nor was aboard her at any time during the
sayd voyage And further cannot answere/

To the 3 saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot answere/

To the last hee cannot answere./

Repeated before doctor Godolphin

Thomas Potter [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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The 14th day of ffebruary 1656/

Examined upon the sayd allegation

Rp EA: 9us

Captaine John Whittey of the parish of Allhallowes
Barking London Mariner Master of the shipp the
ffreeman of London aged thirty six yeares or thereabouts
a wittnesse sworne and examined saith and deposeth
as followeth videlicet./

To the first article hee saith hee cannot depose./

To