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but the sayd Ewer sent this deponent noe a … but the sayd Ewer sent this deponent noe answere<br />
back, but kept on shoare with his wife about the<br />
space of a fortnight, and then came on board and stayed about the space of one<br />
day, in which tyme this deponent importuned him to sayle the shipp downe<br />
the North Channell and told him hee this deponent well knew the sayd<br />
Channell and could carrie her readily through the same, but the sayd Ewers<br />
sayd hee would not venter his shipp through that Channell, and soe went<br />
a shoare againe, and stayed on shoare untill the day that this deponent<br />
sett sayle toward the Downes which was in the moneth of January<br />
one thousand sixe hundred fifty fower English style, but what day thereof hee<br />
remembreth not, And saith that while hee this deponent soe laye in Lee<br />
Roade expecting order from the sayd Ewer to sayle the sayd shipp thense,<br />
and within two or three dayes after this deponents first comming into Lee Roade the shipp the ''Love'' whereof the arlate Elias Jordan was Captaine and an<br />
other shipp whereof one Goslin was Master went from thense through the<br />
North Channell as this deponent might alsoe have done if hee could have<br />
perswaded the sayd Ewer thereto, all which delay was occasioned by the<br />
sayd Ewers keepeing on shoare as aforesayd, And further hee cannot depose/
To the sixth article hee saith that in the sayd moneth of January 1654 (but<br />
the Certaine day hee remembreth not) hee this deponent brought the sayd<br />
shipp to an Anchor in the Downes, and having performed his Charge<br />
as Pylott in bringing her safe thither, there left her, And further hee cannot<br />
depose not knowing how longe shee stayed there nor the date of the Charterparty<br />
arlate./
To the 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th and 14th articles hee cannot depose<br />
for that as is predeposed hee left the sayd shipp after shee came to an Anchor<br />
in the Downes hee having charge of her noe further/
To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true/
Repeated before doctor Godolphin/
William Wilkinson [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The same day./
Examined on the sayd allegation/
'''Rp. 2'''
'''James Jenkins''' of the parish of Grassechurch in<br />
ffanchurch streete London Merchant aged fifty sixe<br />
yeares or thereaboutes a wittnesse sworne and examined<br />
saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet./
To the first second third 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th and 9th articles of<br />
the sayd allegation hee saith hee cannot depose/
To the 10th and 11th and 12th and thirteenth articles of the sayd allegation<br />
hee saith that hee this deponent in the yeare 1654 was, and is a part owner of the arlate<br />
shipp the ''Seaven Sisters'' whereof Abraham Read then was and still is Master<br />
and thereby knoweth that the sayd shipp the ''Seaven Sisters'' was about<br />
the beginning of November in the yeare 1654 Cleered at Gravesend<br />
and then proceeded and sett sayle thense upon her voyage to Virginia and arrived<br />
there safely (as by letters of advice sent him from the sayd Read hee was<br />
givenom the sayd Read hee was<br />
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