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but by stresse of weather was driven back … but by stresse of weather was driven back againe, and being<br />
about to put out thence a third tyme they were by [?shell] from a<br />
Castle there and the Command of the Governour thereof brought againe<br />
to an Anchor before the sayd Castle (as alsoe were divers other<br />
shipps who were then bound out) and they were there commanded to stay<br />
upon pretence of searching for a ffryer who (as it was sayd was<br />
runne away, from which stay shee could not gett discharge nor<br />
was suffered to put out from Lisbone till about the third<br />
of February 1654, all which her stay there of this deponents<br />
certayne knowledge was occassioned by such her ladeing and unladeing<br />
and by fowle weather, and Command of the sayd Governour, and<br />
not enough any default or neglect of the sayd Jeggles or<br />
any of his Company And further hee cannot depose
To the 9th hee saith that upon or about the sayd third of February the sayd shipAnne''<br />
sett sayle from Lisbone towards Porto Port with the Pilott on board<br />
her which was put aboard her by the sayd Edmund Cowse, but had in her<br />
passage crosse windes and much stormie weaather, soe that with all<br />
the diligence and care which the sayd Jeggles and Company could use they<br />
could not gett into Porto Port with her until about the fifteenth or<br />
sixteenth of the sayd moneth of February, at which tyme shee gott<br />
safe in thither, and saith that an English shipp belonging to dartmouth<br />
who went in company with the ''Anne'' from Lisbone to Porto Port,<br />
missing the opportunitie which the ''Anne'' tooke of getting into<br />
harbour at Porto Port, was driven up and down at sea by<br />
fowle weather about fowerteene dayes, and her company like to<br />
famish for want of victualls before she could gett in to Porto Port<br />
and about 14 dayes after the ''Annes'' getting thither, came with the<br />
sayd Port And further to this article hee cannot depose
To the 10th 11th 12th and 13th articles of the sayd allegation hee<br />
saith that hee cannot depose for that hee went in the shipp ''Anne'' only<br />
from England to Porto Port and thence to the Barbados and<br />
thence to New England and thence back to Barbados where hee<br />
left her before for her departure thence to Virginia/
To the 14th article hee saith hee is well assured and knoweth<br />
that during all the tyme of the voyage in question till such tyme<br />
as hee this deponent left the ''Anne'' at the Barbados the sayd<br />
Jeggles did neglect noe tyme nor opportunitie with his sayd<br />
shipp at any place but did his best endeavour for the benefitt<br />
and advantage of the articulate James and Edmund Cowse and<br />
further for the reason aforesayd hee cannot deposefor the reason aforesayd hee cannot depose +
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