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Proprietor of the sayd shipp and was order … Proprietor of the sayd shipp and was ordered by them to sayle her<br />
with her ladeing then on board to Leith in Scotland which hee did where hee found the<br />
sayd Colonell Atkins who as owner of the sayd shipp ordered this deponent<br />
to goe to Generall Monke then in Scotland and acquainte him that thee this<br />
deponent had in the sayd shipp brought a Coach for him, and that hee had<br />
alsoe brought some topp masts, and hoopes, and twigges, for the stoares of<br />
this Commonwealth there, and ordered this deponent to take freight<br />
of the sayd Generall Monke only for the six topp masts, and leave<br />
the freight of the rest of the sayd goods soe brought to bee rewarded of<br />
the sayd generall Monke by this deponents Owner of the sayd shipp (as hee called him<br />
selfe) the sayd Atkins, and this deponent accordingly did soe, And<br />
saith that afterwards the sayd shipp being wholly unladen all the<br />
sayles of the sayd ship and most of the sayd shipps provisions were by the sayd Atkins his order taken from<br />
on board the sayd shipp and carried to his the sayd Atkins his house,<br />
after which, the sayd Atkins coming one morneing on board the sayd<br />
shipp and finding this deponent walking upon the deck, hee told this<br />
deponent that hee the sayd Atkins did not intende to allowe him this deponent<br />
sixe pounds a moneth for walkeing upon the deck with hs hands before<br />
him, whereto this deponent sayd, hee knew not that hee the sayd<br />
Atkins had anything to doe with him this deponent, and that those that<br />
shipped him Master of the sayd shipp the ''Sarah'' that voyage should allow him sixe<br />
pounds a moneth according to the contract they had made with him, whereto<br />
hee the sayd Atkins replyed to this deponent and sayd, you shall knowe<br />
I have to doe with you, whereto this deponent answering and sayeing<br />
why what you, the sayd Atkins answered and sayd I am the<br />
Owner of the shipp (meaning the shipp the ''Sarah'' aforesayd) And hee<br />
the sayd Atkins thereupon ordered his brother in lawe the foresayd Thomas<br />
Pitt who was then at Leith and present with the sayd Atkins and this deponent<br />
to pay this deponent and his Mate their wages presently for<br />
the sayd voyage, and to commande this deponent and his sayd mate to take<br />
all their goods, cloathes and other necessaries from onboard the sayd shipp<br />
and bee gone, and the sayd Pitt did in persuanse of the sayd order pay<br />
this deponent part of his wages, and discharged this deponent<br />
from being longer Master of her though hee the sayd Pitts and the foresayd<br />
Collins had when they first shipped him Master of the sayd shipp<br />
contracted and agreed with him to goe Master for severall<br />
voyages to bee performed with her after the sayd voyage<br />
to Leith by all which hee is induced to beleeve that the sayd<br />
Colonell Atkins at the sayd two and<br />
twentith day of Aprill 1656 was and still is the sole Owner of<br />
the sayd shipp the ''Sarah'' of Leith or at least owner of the greatest part of her and also for that Bilton and Trent<br />
two of the parties to this suite commoing on boarde the sayd shipp at Leith<br />
before the sayd Atkins had given order as aforesayd to discharge<br />
this deponent of his Mastershipp of the sayd shipp did tell them they being<br />
drinkeing sack with this deponent in the great Cabbin of the sayd shipp that hee<br />
heard at London that they the sayd Bilton and Trent were part owners of the<br />
saydt were part owners of the<br />
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