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and five pounds now of him before this deponenth departed from Gravesend outward bound upon the voyage in question and forty shillings more of him of him about sixe weekes five and forty shillings more thereof the sayd Pennyston paid by this deponents order to her this their deponents wife while while hee this deponent was at sea upon the sayd voyage (as this deponent was informed by his wife who since his coming home told him shee had received the same according to his order, And saith there is about thirty pounds still due to him which the sayd Penniston desyred this deponent to for leave a while for that hee could not get in moneys for his freight of the sayd shipp And to the rest of the Interrogatorie had answereth negatively To the 2 Interrogatorie hee saith the shipp Interrogate was at the tymes when shee tooke in the Tobaccoes both at Bermudas and Virginia and at her coming thence an old shipp, but was then off this deponents knowledge and sight (being Carpenter of her) a tight and strong shipp and saith hee never knew or heare of any that refused to lade goods or adventured their lives in her and this deponent well knoweth at her departure from James River in Virginia the sayd shipp was tight and that there was then noe cause for any to feare adventuring their life or goods in her And further saving his foregoeing deponent hee cannot answere otherwise than negatively./ To the 3 hee saith all shipps that goe to sea must expect stormes and doe usually goe provided as well as they can for them, but saith the first storme predeposed of was a hurricano which is usually soe violent that few shipps are able to withstand them, and saith hee this deponent mended the sayd shipps Rudder and therefore knoweth it was not rotten at such tyme as it brake but sufficient against any ordinary storme, and beleeveth if shee had bin a new shipp the violence of the sayd storme was such that shee might have bin dammified as much as shee was, and hee this deponent hath knowne a shipp now off of the stocks receave more dammage by a lesse storme then the sayd first storme was and therefore beleeveth the weather being soe tem= pestious shee could not have brought her ladeing with lesse dammage then shee did And saith there was a shipp called the ''Anne'' of London and one other shipp whose name hee knoweth not which came from Virginia in Company of the shipp the ''King of Poland'' but were parted from her by the sayd first storme, and as hee hath since heard the sayd shipp ''Anne'' did by force of the sayd storme take in above fower foote water in hold but at length gott to Plymouth, but what became of the other shipp hee hath not heard And further to this Interrogatorie saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot answere./ To the last hee saith what hee hath deposed before touching the cause of the dammage to the sayd tobaccoes is the truth and that hee could not [?nor GUTTER] would depose otherwise then truth for any respect what soever nor to [?gratifie GUTTER] any person whatsoever and therefore careth not who is displeased [?therewith GUTTER] William Welch [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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