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sayles, yardes and all her rigging except … sayles, yardes and all her rigging except her foreyard and<br />
foresayle with helpe whereof (though they were much spoiled alsoe) the<br />
sayd shipp gott to Virginia where the sayd Jeggles was constreyned to<br />
staye with her to fitt and prepare her as well as hee could to goe to<br />
sea againe, till about the first of Aprill during which tyme of<br />
this deponents knowledge the sayd Jeggles did doe what hee could to<br />
gett her soe repayred as to bee fitt to goe for the Barbados<br />
againe but Virginia and alsoe the Barbados are of this deponents knowledge places where sayles and rigging are not to bee had<br />
unlesse by chaunce any other shipps who are there have spare sayles<br />
and rigging and will part with them to supplye such as want, the<br />
places affording none there made, soe that the sayd Jeggles<br />
only gott new masts at Virginia (the place affording them) and was<br />
was faine to peece and patch up anie old sayles and rigging that were aboard<br />
the shipp and laye by as uselesse, and make as good shifte with them<br />
as hee could this hee the better knoweth for that hee helped to mend<br />
and peece the old sayles and old rigging And alsoe saith that of his<br />
this deponents knowledge the sayd Jeggles during such tyme as<br />
the sayd shipp lay in Virginia to bee (soe well as there shee could)<br />
repayred and made fitt to goe to sea did doe his utmost<br />
endeavour and sent this deponent and others abroad in the Country to preserve goods to bee laden aboard her either for<br />
England holland or Ireland but by reason there came many shipps,<br />
thither and goods were there scarce to bee gotten hee the sayd Jeggles<br />
could get only a hundred fifty and odd hogsheads of tobaccoe<br />
taken at freight for severall planters of Virginia and some<br />
few hogsheads more belonging to the arlate Cowse and to some<br />
of the shipp ''Anns'' Company, the rest being taken laden by other<br />
shipps And further to this article hee cannot depose saving hee<br />
saith hee heard Steareman and hardidge two of the planters<br />
who laded the sayd one hundred fifty odd hogsheads of tobaccoe aboard<br />
the ''Anne'' saye, to the sayd Jeggles (hee complayneing of want<br />
of lading) that it was well hee had gotten soe much as hee had,<br />
for that (as they sayd) goods were then scarce and severall<br />
shipps that came to Virginia that yeare did retourne with much dead<br />
freight, And saving hee this deponent having occasion to goe aboard<br />
a shipp called the ''Sea horse'' lyeing at Point Comfort in Virginia there<br />
to supply her with about a hundred weight of bread in<br />
Exchange for Cordage to be used about the ''Anne'', did heare her<br />
Master and Company say that they could not gett ladeing and that they<br />
might retourne for England at least halfe dead freighted
To the 13th and 14th hee saith that hee heard the laders thereof saye that theyee heard the laders thereof saye that they +
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