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damnified by the sayd Jeggles his breach of order as a foresayd and not
returning to the Barbados at the least seaven hundred pounds sterling And
hee beleeveth if hee had soe returned the sayd shipp might have bin delivered
at London to the Owners two moneths sooner than see was And further
to this article hee cannot depose./

To the 8th and 9th articles of the sayd allegation hee saith hee cannot depose
anything of this certayne knowledge but hath heard a report to the effect
of both the sayd articles And further cannot depose

To the 10th hee saith hee hath since his comming into England seene
a writing under the hand of the arlate James Cowse conteyning a
new Agreement made by the sayd James with the Owners of the sayd
shipp the Anne wherby it appeared the sayd James was to pay a hundred
pounds to the sayd Owners for further freight of the sayd shipp, which hee
beleeveth was occasioned meerely by the negligence of the sayd Jeggles in
staying longer beyond seas with the sayd shipp than the twenty moneths
conteyned in the first agreement soe that thereby the sayd Cowse
and this deponent were and are damnified the sayd hundred pounds, And further
to this article hee cannot depose./

To the 11th hee saith hee referreth him selfe to the Registry of this
Court and further cannot depose/

To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true/

To the Interrogatories [CENTRE HEADING]

To the first Interrogatorie hee saith hee cometh to testifie at the request of the
producent to whome hee is brother, and hath equall share with his sayd
brother in the losse or benefitt of this cause./

To the 2 hee saith the sayd Jeggles was Master of the Shipp And before
James Cowse and this deponent hyred the same and that the sayd Jeggles being receaved by the owner of the sayd shippe [?to] this deponent
and the sayd James Cowse that hee might continue master, they were well content therewith
and had conference with him at severall places about the hyreing him for
the sayd voyage and what wages hee was to have, but the particuler words, or names
of the places, hee remembreth not, and further saving his foregoeing deposition
hee cannot depose./

To the 3 Interrogatorie hee saith hee was never but once at Porto Port in Portugall
which was the voyage in question, and saith it is a barred port, and hee observed
whilst hee was there that severall shipps came in, and that when they were within
lesse than halfe a league of the barr (and not before) a Pilott went forth to conduct
them in, and saith the reason (as hee hath heard and beleeveth) why Pylotts doe
not goe off to shippe before they come soe neere is because shipps may came soe
neere, and safely anchor, and alsoe in respect of the danger of Turkish men
of warr who doe usually infest that coast, And saith that the sayd Jeggles
did the 13th of November 1654 being about five or sixe leagues distant of the [shore GUTTER]
of Oport fire severall gunnes to certayne boates which hee descried at sea but not
as to have them pilott him over the barr of Oport, but (as hee the sayd Jeggles confessed to this deponent before divers of the shipps company
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