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ffebruary the 29th. 1655. CENTRE HEADING
2. Napthalia White John Thomas and}
3. others Marriners of the shipp the}
4. Delight of Plymouth against}
5. John Gridden master of the shipp.}
6. Cheeke ffrancklyn}
7. Examined upon an Allegation on the behalfe of the sayd Gridden.
8. Thomas Serjeant of Millbrooke in the county of Cornwall
9. Boatswayne of the sayd shipp the Delight aged five and thirty
10. years or thereabouts, a witnesse produced sworne and
11. examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet .
12. <margin value="Left">Rp. 1</margin>
13. To the first article of the sayd allegation This deponent saith that about December 1654
14. the arlate shipp the Delight was set out upon a trading voyage by Nicholas
15. Opie and Stephen Trevill arlate on a trading voyage from ffalmouth under
16. the conduct of the sayd John Gridden who hired this deponent to go XX as
17. Boatswayne in her to Barcelona within the Streights and so to Majorca
18. and then home agayne to ffalmouth; and afterwards the sayd Gridden declared
19. that the sayd Opie and Trevill owners and imployers of the sayd shipp had altered
20. the voyage and that the sayd shipp was to go to the West=Indies. And otherwise
21. not knowing what order the sayd Gridden was to follow in his such voyage, hee
22. cannot depose.
23. To the second article he saith the sayd shipp sett sayle from ffalmouth upon the 29th day of
24. December on her sayd voyage. And further (knowing nothing what orders the
25. sayd Gridden had from her Owners, or that he acquainted the persons arlate or any of
26. his Company therewith he this deponent ćannot depose.
27. To the 3rd ˹and 4th˺ articles of the sayd allegation he saith that the sayd shipp and this deponent as Boatswayn
28. of her arrived safely att the Barbadoes (having in her passage touched att the
29. Streights) on or about the third day of June 1655; Soone after which her
30. Arrivall the arlate Scántlebury and Browne factors there for the Owners
31. came on board her, and in the presence of this deponent and others of the sayd shipps
32. Company did dećlare that they had order from their Principalls to loade the
33. sayd shipp with sugar ginger Tobaććo and other goods of that place, and
34. that ˹as˺ some were to be sent in the said shipp to Genoa within the Streights.
35. or to that purpose. And further or otherwise not knowing what passed betwixt
36. The Producent and sayd ffactors, not having seene the letter arlate he cannot
37. depose.
38. To the 5th article he saith that the sayd ffactors upon the sayd shipps arrivall had sugars
39. Tobaććoes and other goods ready provided # to lade in her And they sayd
40. in this deponents presence that the same was to be ćarryed to Genoa by the
41. Order of therir Principalls the Owners of the sayd shipp above mentioned and
42. otherwise hee cannot depose.
43.
44. <margin value="Left">To the 5th article he saith
45. he heard the sayd
46. factors say that they
47. would dispatch the sayd
48. shipp away in case the
49. Mariners would sayle
50. in her to Genoa. And
51. otherwise hee ćannot
52. depose not having seene
53. as he saith any goods
54. by lading whereof
55. the sayd dispatch might
56. have bene made.
57. Thomas [TC MARKE] Serjeant
58. his marke SIGNATURE</margin>
59.
60. To the 6th and sixth ˹7th˺ articles of the sayd allegation This deponent saith that about the tyme
61. arlate the foresayd factors ćame on board the sayd shipp in Carlisle bay, and thereupon
62. the sayd Gridden called all his Company (who were in all about one and twenty
63. persons) into the great Cabbin, and all of them (Joseph Hobbes arlate excepted)
64. did thereupon attend him, who told them that he had order from his sayd Owners to
65. take in goods of the quality aforesayd, and to transport the same to Genoa
66. (which the sayd factors then affirmed to be true) and that he thought fitt to
67. {X} make this order knowne to them, for that they ought and must goe with
68. him to Genoa with the sayd shipp and goods or to that effect. And thereupon
69. this deponent and about eleven persons more belonging to the sayd shipp
70. did consent to and expresse their readines to goe the sayd voyage; And others
71. of the Company, to wit the allegat Napthali White John Thomas William
72. Martyn, Edward Harris, Richard Germans (Joseph Bartlett Arthur Sowden
73. and Thomas Mitchell did refuse to goe that sayd voyage to Genoa saying
74. they were not hired for any such voyage, and therefore would not goe, or
75. to that purpose, And otherwise (not knowing that any mutiny thereupon
76. happened other than the sayd refusall) he saith he ćannot depose.
77. <margin value="Bottom right, under main body of text, as lead to next page">To</margin>

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