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and others of the sayd shipps Company And … and others of the sayd shipps Company And hee saith hee beleeveth<br />
and is verily persuaded in his conscience that the sayd<br />
Phillipp Ewer by such his staying in expectation of the rest of the ladeing<br />
which the sayd Watts was by Charterparty or other agreement to have<br />
laded on board the sayd shipp over and above the sayd fifteene hogsheads<br />
receaved, was damnified beside the freight of the further ladeing hee should<br />
have receaved for accompt of the sayd Watts, in expense of victualls<br />
and mens wages and other expenses and charges at the least a hundred and<br />
fifty pounds sterling and further to those articles hee cannot depose<br />
not being present at the signing and sealing of the sayd Charterparty<br />
nor at the making of the protest aforesayd./
To the 6th hee cannot depose/
To the 7th hee saith hee referreth himselfe to the Registry of this Court<br />
and further cannot depose./
To the last he saith his foregoeing deposition is true/
To the interrogatories./ [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first interrogatorie hee saith hee was Gunner of the ''William'' the<br />
voyage in question, and hath receaved his wages for the sayd voyage And<br />
to the rest of the Interrogatorrie hee answereth negatively./
To the 2 Interrogatorie hee was Gunner as a foresayd and entered with halfe pay<br />
for the voyage in question about the middle of October 1654, and into whole pay<br />
the 12th of december next after, and saith it was about sixe weekes<br />
betweene the tyme hee was hyred for the sayd voyage and the tyme the sayd shipp<br />
sett sayle from Gravesend in the voyage interrogate And further hee<br />
cannot answere./
To the 3 hee saith hee hath satisfied the contents thereof in his foregoeing<br />
deposition to which hee referreth
To the 4th hee saith hee hath sayled betweene Gravesend and James River<br />
in Virginia sometymes in eight weekes, and hath som tymes bin three<br />
or fower moneths sayling the same, according as winde and weather is<br />
favourable or otherwise, and saith amongst seaven it is usually accounted<br />
three moneths voyage thither, And further hee cannot answere
To the 5th hee saith the Interrogate Ewers and Company made onely<br />
one port betwixt Gravesend and James River in Virginia, which was<br />
ffalmouth, into which they were driven by stresse of weather And further<br />
to this Interrogatorie hee cannot answere/
To the 6th Interrogatorie saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot more<br />
fully answere to this Interrogatorie./
To the 7th saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot answere to this Interrogatorie
To the 8th hee saith the shipp ''William'' brought from Virginia the voyage<br />
in question about fower score tonne of Tobaccoe, counting (as is<br />
usuall in Virginia) fower hogsheads to each tonne, fifteene of which hogsheads<br />
were for Accompt of the sayd Watts and the rest for Accompt of other persons<br />
who had alsoe tonnage in the sayd shipp. (shee being a vessell of about two<br />
hundred tonne burthen) but the severall persons names hee remembreth<br />
notrsons names hee remembreth<br />
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