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usage did suffer much affliction and punis … usage did suffer much affliction and punishment reddens rationem<br />
scientia For hee this deponent being then abord teh said ship the ''May=''<br />
''Flower'' and seeing the said Hickman soe causelessly abased as is<br />
predeposed, and heareing the said Jacket give order that the said<br />
Hickman should not be releived which said comand of his was accordingly<br />
obeyed and observed. Et alr nescit deponere.
Ad 5. 6. 7. 8. rt 9um. arlos dicti lili deponit et dicit that after the premisses<br />
the said William Jackett still continueing his malice against the said Hickman<br />
did (as this deponent hath bin credibly informed, by the said shipps<br />
Companie generally.) cause him to bee loosed from the forecastle and<br />
to bee brought to the Maine Mast of the said ship the ''Mayflower'' where hee<br />
caused his hand to bee made fast unto the maine halliars as is arlate and<br />
then called for a Carpenters Mallett, which being brought, hee tooke the<br />
same and a knife and delivered them to the arlate William Loader and<br />
(in a most barbarous and cruell and inhumane manner as ever was heard on) did<br />
comand the said Loader to take the said knife and with the Mallet to drive<br />
it through the said Hickmans hand into the mainemast amidest his<br />
bones and sinnewes as is aarlate up to the very heft thereof, which the<br />
said Loader refuseing, and in regard hee neither understood nor heard of any reason<br />
for such his the said Jacketts barbarous useage of the said Hickman, hee did refuse to doe the same<br />
and to obey sich his unlawfull commands, whereupon the said Jacket<br />
did threaten the said Loader that in case hee would not doe as hee had willed<br />
hee should bee nailed to the mainemast himselfe through his eare;<br />
And soe hee saith the said Loader (as hee himselfe hath since tould this deponent)<br />
mearely out of feare of affliction upon himselfe and full sorely against<br />
his will) at the instance and Comand of the said Jacket did drive<br />
the said knife through the back of the said Hickmans hand into the maine=<br />
mast as is arlate, the said Jacket standing by and seeing the same soe done<br />
with the rest of the said ships Companie perceaveing they did supplicate and<br />
beg of the said Jackett that hee might bee taken downe and not soe<br />
inhumanely dealt withall, but the said Jackett wholley refused the same<br />
and swore that he should either hang there whilest hee had torne his hand<br />
through or else hee should perishe; as is arlate; Et ulterius deponit<br />
that the said Jackett the more to afflict the said Hickman did cause<br />
one of his hands to bee loosed and soe lett him hang a great while by<br />
that hand only which the knife was driven through as is arlate<br />
in a most miserable and lamentable condition; And saith that in all<br />
the tye of his being used to goe to sea which hath bin by the space of<br />
this 12. or 13. yeares hee never heard of the like inhumane punishment<br />
inflicted upon any man by a master of a ship, for, that in all; hee the said<br />
Hickman soe hung by the space of above an hower as this deponent hath<br />
bin informed, The premisses hee saith hee sawe not soe done, being then<br />
gone out in a shallop to buy Negroes, but att his retourne<br />
was tould of the same by the said Loader and the rest of the said ships<br />
Companie and sawe the said Hickmans hand to be wounded and<br />
torne as is predeposed. All which was done by the said Jackett (as<br />
the said shipps Companie likewise tould this deponent) without any iust<br />
cause or offence att all given unto him by the said Hickman. Et<br />
alr nescit deponere./
Ad 10um 11um et 12um arlos deponit et dicit that the Arme of the said Hickman<br />
by reason of the premisses was (as this deponent was credibly informed)<br />
soe swelled that it was ready to burst, the same being soe fast tyed<br />
to the Mainemast of the said ship; which the Companie perceaveing and<br />
seeing the said Hick,an allmost ready to perishe and fawl, they did<br />
againe beg att and entreat the said Jacket that the knife might bee<br />
takenthat the knife might bee<br />
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