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Transcription

To the 14th article of the sayd allegation hee saith that the arlate
Robert ffoxe his shipp did as the sayd ffoxe told this deponent returne
from Virginia the voyage arlate with much dead freight, and the sayd ffoxe
told this deponent in Virginia before the sayd ffoxe his departure thense, that
hee had but three hundred hogsheads, or thereabouts aboard his shipp being
able if full laden to have recvied upwards of sixe hundred, which want
of ladeing was as hee verily beleeveth and is perswaded in his conscience
by reason of the sayd ffoxe his late coming that yeare to Virginia, hee comming
in on the very same day that hee this deponent came thither in the Peter
and John, And further to this article hee cannot depose knowing nothing
touching the Arbitration arlate./

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 none of the mariners or Company of
the sayd Ewers shipp, but only Supra Cargo of the Peter and John
who kept Company with the sayd divers shipp as aforesayd from the
twenty nynth day of december 1654 as aforesayd untill
hee lost her at sea as aforesayd upon the 8th of ffebruary 1654 and
sawe her noe more till her arrivall in James River as aforesayd, And
saith hee knoweth that after the sayd Ewers shipp and the Peter and
John weighed Anchor in the downes in their course togeather towards Virginia
they mett with Contrary windes and thereupn putt in to ffalmouth,
as aforesayd, and that they afterwards mett with fowle weather, whereby
they were parted as aforesayd in their passage towards Virginia, And beleeveth
the sayd Ewers from the sayd twenty nynth of december 1654 did not
neglect any oportunitie to further his speedie voyage to Virginia, but
had his being soe longe after that 29th day of december 1654
before hee arrived at Virginia was only by reason of Crosse windes and
badd weather, and that if any neglect were committed by the sayd Ewer
it was by reason of his longe staye at London Gravesend
or Lee before the sayd 29th of december 1654 when this deponent first
came and found him there And further saving his foregoeing deposition
hee cannot answere/

To the 3 hee saith hee knoweth the Interrate Robert ffox was master of the
Shipp Margarett Interrate and arrived with her in Virginia the voyage Interrate
upon the 22th of Aprill 1655 being the same day this deponent arrived there
in the Peter and John and only about a day or two before the sayd Ewers shipp
arrived, but and saith the sayd ffoxe sett out (as hee hath heard and verily
beleeveth) from Gravesend upon his sayd voyage to Virginia in the
moneth of October 1654 And further hee cannot answere./

To the 4th Interrogatorie hee saith that hee beleeveth the sayd Ewers did
(the voyage in question) come from Virginia with dead freight but
saith hee beleeveth the cause of his soe returning with dead freight was
his arrivall soe late in Virginia And further hee cannot depose

Repeated before doctor Godolphin/

[?Edwd] Gunnell [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]