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To the 15th hee saith hee hath heard his f … To the 15th hee saith hee hath heard his father and other experienced seamen saye<br />
that it is about five hundred and forty leagues betwixt Virginia and the Barbadoes<br />
and about a thousand five hundred leagues betwixt Barbadoes and England And<br />
saith as aforesaid it was in this deponents Judgement a thing impossible to fitt<br />
and amend the shipp ''Anne'' at Virginia with such things as she there wanted to carry<br />
her to the Barbados, and soe likewise at the Barbadoes to fitt her there with such<br />
things as she had lost, and to amend her hull which was alsoe much preiudiced<br />
and her forecastle torne both belowe and alofte, And further hee cannot depose
To the 16th hee saith the shipp ''Anne'' aforesayd in her course homeward<br />
for London was of this deponents knowledge being one of her Company forced to put<br />
into Plymouth by reason of Contrary windes, and alsoe to avoide being<br />
taken by dunkirke or Ostend or other Spanish men of warr who this deponent<br />
sawe hovering up and downe at sea upon that coast, and saith of his knowledge<br />
the sayd ship ''Anne'' departed from Plymouth for London with the first oportunitie<br />
of wynde and weather which offered itselfe And further cannot depose
To the last hee saith that in his this deponents Judgement and as he verily<br />
beleeveth and is perswaded in his concience that in case the sayd shipp<br />
''Anne'' had endeavoured to have gone from Virginia to the Barbadoes<br />
thence to England, shee being soe damnified in her hull and by losse of<br />
her tackle as aforesayd (which dammage and losse of tackle could<br />
not bee supplyed and amended neither at Virginia nor Barnadoes such<br />
things requisite to mend her not being in those places to bee had) shee<br />
had without doubt sunke and perished in the sea shee being of this deponents knowledge kept with continuall pumping night and day, after the dammage receaved And further hee<br />
cannot depose/
'''Rp.'''
To the Interrogatories [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith hee cometh to testifie at the request<br />
of Jeggles the producent who well know hee this deponent could not<br />
choose but bee able to testifie therein but for that hee was aboard her the whole<br />
voyage in question and saith hee was a foremast man of her and noe officer, And<br />
hath receaved nothing nor expecteth any thing for his testimony And to<br />
the rest of the Interrogatorie hee answereth negatively
To the 2 hee saith that to day the sayd Jeggles did overshoot the porte<br />
early in the morning as aforesayd, was a Sunday and the sayd Jeggles<br />
after a while doubting that hee had overshott the port of Porto Port in the darke of the<br />
morning, did thereupon by observation of the latitude that hee was in,<br />
observe, that hee was to the Southward of it, and thereupon made toward it, and<br />
arrived before it againe upon the Monday morning, and then seeing boates<br />
at sea, put out this auncient length waies in [?wesse], to cause the sayd boates,<br />
to come to him, but the sayd boates companyes (fearing as this deponent beleeveth that<br />
the shipp ''Ann'' had been some Turkish man of warr, they often frequenting<br />
that coast) made away from her and then the sayd Jeggles discharged some<br />
peeces of ordnance to envite a pylott on board, and none comming,<br />
and night approaching, the sayd Jeggles stood off to Sea as is predeposed<br />
that night ill weather happening, the sayd shipp did to prevent danger<br />
of being driven ashoare as is predeposed, keepe out at sea, and was at length<br />
driven Southward as farr as the Burlings And to the rest of the Interrogatorieings And to the rest of the Interrogatorie +
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