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part laden and further to this Interrogatorie saving his
foregoeing deposition hee cannot answere otherwise then negatively

To the 6th hee saith as before that neither Barbadoes nor Virginia
are places which afford Materialls such as the Anne stood neede
of, and that shee made a shift to patch up old hawsers
to make shrowdes and old sayles to serve to carrie her home from Virginia
to Ireland and soe to England but saith these meane sayles and tackleing
that they made shift to Come thence home with, would not have
served to carrie her from Virginia to the Barbadoes and thence to
England: and saith the winde was of this deponents certayne knowledge
not fayre for the downes when the Anne went into Plymouth
And further to this Interrogatorie hee answereth negatively/

Repeated before doctor Godolphin

John Sweft [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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The 25th of February 1656/ [CENTRE HEADING]

Examined on the sayd allegation

Rp. 3

William Jeggles of the parish of Saintt Olave in South
warke Mariner aged twenty nyne yeares or there
abouts a wittnesse sworne and examined saith and
deposeth as followeth videlicet/

To the first article hee saith that hee hath well knowne the arlate daniell
Jeggler for from his this deponents Childhood, and saith that within
these fower or five yeares last past (during all which tyme the sayd
daniell hath gone Master and Commander of shipp) hee this deponent
hath gone severall voyages beside the voyage in question with the sayd
Jeggles, and thereby knoweth that the sayd daniel Jeggles during that
tyme hath bin and is an able Seaman and is fitt to be Master and
Commander of a shipp and for such was and is Commonly
reputed and taken And further hee cannot depose/

To the 2 hee saith hee knoweth the Port of Porto Port arlate
and saith it is a Port full of danger in the entry thereof by
reason of a barr of sands and by reason of certayne rocks
in the side thereof, and cannot bee entered but about three quarters
flood, and with a good fresh gale of winde by reason there falls
a great fresh downe, soe that without a good gale of winde they cannot
stemme the fresh and this hee saith is a thinge well knowne to all
such as use that Port, and saith the sayd Port for the reasons aforesayd
is soe dangerous that noe shipps doe use to put in there though they
belonge to that Port without the assistance of a Pylott belonging to
that Port or some other Port neere thereabout, and saith that the
Pillotts of that port by reason it is often infested with Turks men
of