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To the 8th hee saith that as the said ship … To the 8th hee saith that as the said ship was goeing from<br />
Newfoundland towards the Barbadoes, they espeyed a vessell<br />
(which afterwards appeared to be a ffrench vessell) and the said<br />
Wood having a desyre to goe aboard of the said vessell, did<br />
desire the said Grove to let the ships Boate be Hoysted out<br />
that he might goe on board of the said Vessell, which was<br />
accordingly done, and this deponent went in the<br />
said Boate with the said Wood on board the said Vessell, and after the said<br />
Wood and this deponent had bin on board her about an<br />
houre the said Wood came up towards the said Vessell<br />
and by Casualty came on board her, which was occasioned only by the said<br />
ship the ''Peace'' her steering badly, and keeping her<br />
helme a Lea, upon on Tack, and hard a weather on<br />
her other Tack, as hee verily beleeveth And saith<br />
that there was little damage done to the said ffrench Vessell, by<br />
the ''Peace'' her Coming foule upon her neither did the<br />
said Luke Wood suffer any prejudice therby. and further<br />
hee cannot depose./:
To the 9th hee saith and Deposeth that by meanes of Contrary<br />
windes, and Calmes, and hurricanoes (which were very<br />
frequent then there insoemuch that neither the said Grove<br />
nor this deponent nor the other mates on board her could<br />
gaine the Latitude) The said ship did misse the Island<br />
of the Barbadoes, And not by the Willfullnes Ignorance<br />
or Carlessnes of the said Thomas Grove; And after<br />
the said Grove did perceive that the said Ship had<br />
missed the Barbadoes, hee told the said Wood (in the<br />
presence of this deponent and others of the said Ships Company)<br />
that hee would beate it up againe (meaning the Barbadoes)<br />
and the said Grove did endeavour<br />
to saile to the Barbadoes, and hee haveing spent<br />
about Eighteene houres thereabout, (after they perceived that<br />
they had missed it,) The said Luke Wood, in this deponents<br />
presence gave the said Grove speciall order to saile the<br />
said ship to Martinice, and from thence to Mevis, which the<br />
said Grove accordingly did; And saith that hee verily<br />
beleeveth that the said Grove would have Got to the<br />
Barbadoes with the said Ship, in (about) tenne Dayes<br />
of time, after hee perceived it was missed, if the said<br />
Wood would have sufferred him soe to doe, and not<br />
have ordered him to leave off his Endeavouring and saile<br />
to Martinice and soe to Mevis, And saith that all the<br />
Voyage from Newfoundland towards the Barbadoes the<br />
said Thomas Grove did use, and doe his uttmost endeavour<br />
in sailing the said Shipp directly for the Barbadoes, and<br />
didtly for the Barbadoes, and<br />
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