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'''A.14.'''
The 7th of May 1656.
Examine … '''A.14.'''
The 7th of May 1656.
Examined vpon the libelle
Warner against the ''Alexander''}<br />
and against howe.}
'''Rp. .jus.'''
'''Jacob van [?Zoiden]''' of the Cowes in the Ile of Wight<br />
Chyrurgeon, aged 21 yeeres or thereabouts sworne and<br />
examined.
To the first article of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth that<br />
from October 1653 to the tenth of August 1654 the arlate William<br />
Watson was master and Commannder of the shipp the ''Alexander''<br />
arlate and forsuch commonly accounted, and had the care and charge<br />
of the said shipp (of this deponents sight and knowledge) for the said<br />
time, And otherwise hee cannot depose, saving what followeth,<br />
and saving the said Watson was accounted master and Governour of the<br />
said shipp for a longer time there as aforesaid.
To the second hee saith that hee referreth himselfe to the articles<br />
indented annexed to the libell, which this deponent by direction of the<br />
producent Mr Warner carried over into Ireland to the said Watson to<br />
see the same performed, and there the said Watson acknowledged himselfe<br />
to a partie thereto, and that they were signed and sealed by him, And<br />
otherwise hee cannot depose, saving what followeth.
To the seaventh article and eighth articles hee saith and deposeth<br />
that the said William Watson in or about the moneth of ffebruary<br />
1653 proceeded on the said voyage in question from Ireland for<br />
Virginia, and arived in Yorke River in May next following, where<br />
hee was to receiveth tobaccoe arlate, which hee knoweth because<br />
hee this deponent who came first aboard her at Corke in Ireland in<br />
the beginning of November 1653 and continewed in her, went from Ireland<br />
in her to Yorke River aforesaid in Virginia; And saith that whilest<br />
the said shipp there continewed, there was tobaccoe enough to be hadd<br />
and ready to be sent to London which would have fully laden the said<br />
shipp the ''Alexander'' and much more, and the said Watson might have procured<br />
five hundred hogsheads more to have bin laden aboard the said shipp<br />
if hee would and that the shipp could have receaved them, and further that there were 150 hogsheads of tobacco<br />
at least (more then were brought home in the<br />
said shipp) at the water side and some at the shipp side offered to the said Watson to be brought home in the<br />
said shipp for London, and hee was requested and desired to receive<br />
the same aboard, which hee knoweth being present and privie to<br />
all the premisses. And otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the tenth and eleaventh articles hee saith and deposeth that the<br />
said William Watson brought home only seaven hundred hogsheads of<br />
tobaccoe or thereabouts and not more, which hee knoweth because hee<br />
sawe the lading of them, and was ashore when the said shipp<br />
departed therewith from Yorke River aforesaid which was on or about<br />
the eleaventh of August 1654. And saith that the freight of the<br />
severall hogsheads of tobaccoe that were brought home in the said shipp<br />
(accounting foure hogsheads to a tonne) amounted for some tonnes<br />
to tenn pounds and for some to nine, and glad was that lader that<br />
could get his tobaccoe sent home at soe easie a freight as 9 ''li'' per tonne<br />
andight as 9 ''li'' per tonne<br />
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