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Transcription

and if there bee none then to truck it away for other goods or send
it to New England or putt it off to any that will take it for to give
tobaccoe for the same the next Cropp, which is usually done because
Tobaccoe is in Virginia a perishing Commoditie and will not without
great losse and dammage keepe from one Cropp to an other And further
to this article hee cannot depose/

To the 13th article of the sayd allegation hee saith hee well knoweth
being then in Virginia and seeing them there
and being Governour then of Virginia and thereby the person to
whome all Masters of shipps did repayre upon their first arrivall that
the shipps the James, the Golden Lyon, The Seaven Sisters the John and
Katherine arlate with severall other shipps did arrive in Virginia some
in the latter end of January and the rest about the beginning of ffebruary
one thousand sixe hundred fifty fower And further hee cannot depose

To the 14th hee saith by reason hee was Governour as aforesayd hee saith hee knoweth
that the arlate Robert ffoxe with his shipp the Margarett came into Virginia
much about the tyme or but a little before the sayd Phillip Ewers did, and
that the sayd ffoxe was expected longe before hee came and by reason of [?such]
his late comming the sayd ffoxe returned for England as hee hath heard the sayd
ffoxe him selfe and others saye) with only about halfe the ladeing hee [?should]
have had there laden aboard him, And further hee cannot depose/

To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true/

To the Interrogatories/ [CENTRE HEADING]

To the first hee answereth negatively/

To the 2 Interrogatorie hee saith hee was noe mariner nor officer of the shipp
nor on board her at any tyme And to the rest of the Interrogatorie
hee cannot answere knowing nothing touching the same more than what
hee hath in his foregoeing deposition expressed/

To the 3 Interrogatorie hee saith saving his foregoeing deposition he
cannot further answere to this Interrogatorie/

To the last videlicet the 4th Interrogatorie hee saith
the sayd Ewer did upon the conference[?betweene GUTTER]
him the sayd Ewer and the producent as aforesayd made in presence of this deponent
and the sayd Captaine Whittie produce and show to this deponent his Charter
party for the voyage in question and this deponent observed hee was thereby
obliged to stay only forty five dayes in Virginia to receive [?his ?lading]
and the sayd Ewers alsoe produced a protest drawne in Virginia by
which protest it appeared to this deponent that hee laye in Virginia to [?receave]
his ladeing the voyage in question the speace of three moneths or neere
thereabouts which protest this deponent beleeveth to bee
with the hand of the Secretary of State for Virginia
hee being well acquainted with this hand writing and therefore beleeveth [?the]
same to bee true and is thereby induced to beleeve that the sayd Ewers [?did]
stay in Virginia to gett ladeing farr longer then the tyme appointed [?in the]
Charterparty And further hee cannot answere./

Repeated before doctor Godolphin/

Ri: Bennett [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

Cleered with the Judges [?XXXX] and procters thereto.