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part laden and further to this Interrogato … part laden and further to this Interrogatorie saving his<br />
foregoeing deposition hee cannot answere otherwise then negatively
To the 6th hee saith as before that neither Barbadoes nor Virginia<br />
are places which afford Materialls such as the ''Anne'' stood neede<br />
of, and that shee made a shift to patch up old hawsers<br />
to make shrowdes and old sayles to serve to carrie her home from Virginia<br />
to Ireland and soe to England but saith these meane sayles and tackleing<br />
that they made shift to Come thence home with, would not have<br />
served to carrie her from Virginia to the Barbadoes and thence to<br />
England: and saith the winde was of this deponents certayne knowledge<br />
not fayre for the downes when the ''Anne'' went into Plymouth<br />
And further to this Interrogatorie hee answereth negatively/
Repeated before doctor Godolphin
John Sweft [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 25th of February 1656/ [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined on the sayd allegation
'''Rp. 3'''
'''William Jeggles''' of the parish of Saintt Olave in South<br />
warke Mariner aged twenty nyne yeares or there<br />
abouts a wittnesse sworne and examined saith and<br />
deposeth as followeth videlicet/
To the first article hee saith that hee hath well knowne the arlate daniell<br />
Jeggler for from his this deponents Childhood, and saith that within<br />
these fower or five yeares last past (during all which tyme the sayd<br />
daniell hath gone Master and Commander of shipp) hee this deponent<br />
hath gone severall voyages beside the voyage in question with the sayd<br />
Jeggles, and thereby knoweth that the sayd daniel Jeggles during that<br />
tyme hath bin and is an able Seaman and is fitt to be Master and<br />
Commander of a shipp and for such was and is Commonly<br />
reputed and taken And further hee cannot depose/
To the 2 hee saith hee knoweth the Port of Porto Port arlate<br />
and saith it is a Port full of danger in the entry thereof by<br />
reason of a barr of sands and by reason of certayne rocks<br />
in the side thereof, and cannot bee entered but about three quarters<br />
flood, and with a good fresh gale of winde by reason there falls<br />
a great fresh downe, soe that without a good gale of winde they cannot<br />
stemme the fresh and this hee saith is a thinge well knowne to all<br />
such as use that Port, and saith the sayd Port for the reasons aforesayd<br />
is soe dangerous that noe shipps doe use to put in there though they<br />
belonge to that Port without the assistance of a Pylott belonging to<br />
that Port or some other Port neere thereabout, and saith that the<br />
Pillotts of that port by reason it is often infested with Turks men<br />
often infested with Turks men<br />
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