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Transcription

uncustomed goods were found in his the sayd Ellis his house but from
a board what shipp they were brought or whether they were brought by
his privity or consent hee knoweth not And further hee cannot answere/

To the last hee answereth negatively./

Repeated before doctor Godolphin/

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The 29th of March 1658./.

Soanes against John Bormer Thomas}
Bond and William Buck ffrancklin}
Smith)

Examined on an allegation on the behalfe of the sayd
[Bonner] Bond and Buck./

dt. Smith jus

Lawrence Devenish of Dorchester in the County of
dorsett Mariner aged thirty eight yeares or thereabouts
a wittnesse sworne and examined saith and deposeth as
followeth videlicet./

To the first article of the sayd allegation hee saith that for that hee was Masters
Mate of the arlate Shipp William and Anne the voyage in question hee
knoweth the sayd shipp was in the moneth of September 1657 sett out and
imployed upon a voyage intended directly from London to Rochell arlate
and thence to Wexford arlate and thence to London which voyage hee knoweth the
sayd shipp began and sett sayle out of the River of Thames upon the wighteeneth
day of the sayd moneth of September And that the sayd Bonner arlate went
out Master of her the sayd voyage And further to this article hee cannot depose.

To the second article of the sayd allegation hee saith hee being Masters mate as
aforesayd and aboard knoweth that upon the twenty nynth day of September
the sayd shipp William and Anne being in her direct course
for Rochell and meeting with fowle weather and contrary windes was forced to
put into Plymouth and the winde continueing contrary for her passage thence to
Rochell shee was now necessarily enforced by reason of the contrariety of windes
to stay at Plymouth from the sayd twenty nynth of September last till the
fourteenth of November last in which tyme of her stay there three of
the Mariners of the sayd shipp were pressed away to serve in the states service
in the h[ertor ffrigott then bound for jamaica and the arlate Bonner for want
of English Mariners was forced to hyre dutch men and one English man to serve in the roome
of those soe pressed away This hee the better knoweth for that hee kept a Journall
of the occurencies of the sayd voyage And further hee cannot depose/

To the 3 and 4th articles of the sayd allegation hee saith that the sayd Bonner
having gott other Mariners instead of those pressed away and the winde serving
fayer to goe out of Plymouth hee put out thence with his sayd shipp in company
of other shipps then passing out thence, and the William and Anne (the passage
there being narrow) was by some of the shipps that went out in Company
with her forced upon a rock whereby (as afterwards was discovered) shee became
very leakie, but such her leakines was not at present by the sayd Bonner and
Company discovered untill she came further out to Sea and then they discovered
the same and sawe that she had taken fower or five foote water in hold And having
discovered the same the sayd Bonner and Company did use their utmost endeavour