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To the 13th hee saith that the intente of … To the 13th hee saith that the intente of the sayd damerell in keeping company<br />
with the dutch shipps was as hee beleeveth with intente to get to a place<br />
of ffishing which neither they nor hee experimentally knew how to goe to<br />
called Point Negro which they sought for but never attayned to, and being<br />
frustrated of that designe, the sayd damerell looseing which their company<br />
in thick weather, did afterwards by him selfe (without the company of<br />
the dutch) make with the ''Owners Adventure'' and ''Greyhound'' for Ducks Cove<br />
but could not gett in there for Ice, And further saving his foregoing<br />
deposition hee cannot Answere./
To the 14th hee saith the sayd damerell is an able seaman and sufficently<br />
experienced in Greeneland voyages and hath gone severall voyages<br />
thither/
To the 15th hee saith hee knoweth all the persons interrogate they goeing<br />
in the ''Owners Adventure'' with this deponent the voyage in question<br />
And saith that Reynolds and Kirton and Ashmore have as land men and not<br />
otherwise bin severall voyages at Greeneland, And for the sayd Chauntry<br />
and ffoard they went as Land men only the voyage in question and hath heard<br />
them sayd they were never at Greeneland before, and saith the first tyme<br />
hee save Kirton and Ashmore was when they went with him in the<br />
service of the sayd Batson in two voyages to Greeneland the sayd<br />
Ashmore in the shipp ''Richard'' aforesayd and the sayd Kirton in the sayd<br />
shipp the ''Gentleman of London'', And Reynolds Channtrie and ffoard And<br />
saith hee know not before the voyage in question, and saith hee beleeveth the sayd<br />
Reynolds Channtrie and Kirton are honest men and such as will not<br />
wittingly or willingly sworne an untruth and further cannot answere/
To the 16th hee saith that at Greenland the Ice doth usually open<br />
and shutt, and men that goe thither when great yeares of Ice and must<br />
watch their oportunitie to get into harbour./
To the last hee saith hee beleeveth in his conscience that<br />
the sayd damerell after hee came out of the Ice had Commanded his<br />
Companyes of the ''Owners Adventure'' to worke in toward<br />
shoare to make a Port they would not have disobeyed him, And<br />
saith that after the sayd damerell came from duckes Cove to<br />
hee came toward Bell Sound, and the Ice was then (in this<br />
deponents judgement) farr opener and likelyer to yeild a<br />
passage in then when the difference aforesayd arose betweene<br />
the sayd damerell and his Mates, but the sayd damerell was<br />
soe fickle and variable in his resolutions and that that although<br />
his Mates and others did advise him to attempt getting into<br />
harbour yet hee slighted their advice, and this deponent hath<br />
heard him the sayd damerall say that it laye wholly in his<br />
brest to doe what hee would in the sayd voyage and therefore why<br />
should hee consult with any body or words to that effect<br />
And further saving his foregoing deposition hee cannot answere/
Repeated before Doctor Godlophin/
William Clarkson [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
'''See the rest of the witnesses in B17''''''See the rest of the witnesses in B17''' +
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