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28 October 2012 +
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| First transcriber
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Colin Greenstreet +
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| Folio
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543 +
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| Parent volume
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HCA 13/71 +
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| People
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Wikipedia entry: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bennett_%28Governor%29 Richard Bennett (Governour)] +
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Recto +
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Uploaded image; transcribed on 28/10/2012 +
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| Transcription
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The 12th day of ffebruary 1656/ [CENTRE HE … The 12th day of ffebruary 1656/ [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined on the sayd allegation./
'''Rp EA. 7th'''
'''Richard Bennett Esquire''' an Inhabitant of Virginia but at<br />
present liveing in London borne at Wilscombe in the County<br />
of Somersett aged 49 yeares or thereabouts a wittnesse<br />
sworne and examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet/
To the first and second articles of the sayd allegation hee saith that hee this<br />
deponent and the arlate Phillipp Ewers and one Captaine John Whittie and the producent Watts being<br />
in Company togeather upon Wednesday the eleventh day of this Instant ffebruary<br />
and they having some discourse togeather touching the voyage in question and<br />
the sayd Phillipp Ewer did then in presense of this deponent and the sayd Captaine<br />
Whittie and the producent confesse and acknowledge that hee did Cause bills<br />
to bee put upon the Exchange London giving notice thereby to such as<br />
it concerned that hee would bee gone and proceede upon the voyage in question<br />
before the end of October one thousand sixe hundred fifty fower And<br />
that notwithstanding his setting up his bills to that effect his shipp the<br />
''William'' of London was not cleered at Gravesend out of the searchers office<br />
there till the eleventh day of december the sayd yeare 1654 And further to<br />
these articles hee cannot depose./
To the 3 hee cannot depose
To the 4th and 5th articles hee saith that at the tyme aforesayd and in presense of this deponent<br />
and the sayd Whittie and the producent the sayd Phillipp Ewer upon occasion of discourse<br />
as aforesayd touching the voyage in question did alsoe acknowledge and confesse that<br />
after his shipp was soe cleered at Gravesend hee went thense to Lee Roade and<br />
there laye at Anchor severalll dayes his wife being with him shee having<br />
as hee sayes some Kindred thereabout which shee desyred to visite And<br />
did alsoe acknowledge that while his shipp lay at Anchor in Lee Roade some shipps<br />
did passe thense downe the North Channell into the downes, and sayd that<br />
the reason why hee the sayd Ewer did not alsoe goe through the sayd Channell was for<br />
that hee was not soe well manned as those shipps which passed that way were<br />
and alsoe for that his Pylott who was to Pylott here into the downes did as hee [?the ?sayd ?Ewers] saye<br />
hee was not acquainted with that Channell And further to these<br />
articles hee cannot depose
To the 6th and 7th hee saith the sayd Ewers did the tyme aforesyd and in<br />
presense of this deponent and the sayd Whittie and the producent upon the occasion aforesayd<br />
alsoe acknowledge that hee did in his passage to Virginia the voyage in<br />
question by reason of contrary windes put into ffalmouth and there stay<br />
about a weeks space and that hee arrived in James River in Virginia<br />
the three and twentieth day of Aprill 1655 and not before And further<br />
to these articles hee cannot depose/
To the 8th 9th 10th and 11th articles hee saith hee cannot depose/
To the 12th article hee saith that hee this deponent hath bin an Inhabitant<br />
in Virginia for these eight or nyne and twenty yeares last past and exercised<br />
the trade of Merchandizing there for tobaccoes and other Commodities and<br />
thereby well knoweth that such as have tobaccoes to send for England if<br />
they bee not certayne that a shipp who hath undertaken the carriage<br />
thereof will soone after arrive to take the same doe use after the middle of<br />
March is once past to send the same by any shipp that is then present in<br />
Virginiaat is then present in<br />
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