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To the 14th hee saith hee never knew the I … To the 14th hee saith hee never knew the Interrogate damerell till the<br />
voyage in question, but beleeveth and J him to bee an able sea man and<br />
hath heard and beleeveth that hee hath gone former voyages to Greeneland for<br />
the sayd Batson and well vnderstands what it is to goe thither, And further hee<br />
cannot answere./
To the 15th hee saith hee knoweth the Interrogate Reynolds Chametry TO DO: AshmXX<br />
Kirton and fford and hath knowne them only during the voyage in question and since<br />
and (soe farr as hee knoweth or remembreth) the first tyme hee sawe them was on<br />
board the Owners Adventure, And what they are reputed as to their honesty hee<br />
knoweth not, nor whether they have bin at Greeneland before the voyage in<br />
question And further saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot answere/
To the 16th hee saith hee was never at Greeneland before the voyage in<br />
question, and did then observe that the Ice there had motion and did somtymes<br />
open in some places and that the companyes of shipps who goe thither doe<br />
observe such openings and by benefitt thereof worke within the same<br />
and further hee cannot answere/
To the last hee saith hee beleeveth in his conscience that in case the sayd<br />
damerell after hee came out from the Ice ˹as aforesayd˺ had seene any oportunitie to<br />
have gained wrought in againe and gained a harbour and had Command<br />
his Company of the Owners Adventure to worke in againe the sayd<br />
Company would haue yeilded obedience to his Command, and haue<br />
endeavoured to worke into harbour rather then staye at Sea as they did<br />
it being a thing which would have more conduced to the health of<br />
their bodyes, and to their and their Imployers profitt if also if they had<br />
light upon whales, and saith hee beleeveth that after the sayd shipp<br />
Owners Adventure wrought out of the Ice to Sea againe there were<br />
better oportunities of getting to harbour then that shee had when shee<br />
laye in the Ice and was wrought out thereof to sea as aforesayd, but<br />
because the X the edge of the Ice was sometymes neerer the shoare<br />
then where shee wrought out but noe oportunite soe good as that<br />
shee could get into harbour soe farr as this deponent could observe,<br />
And saith hee heard not any of the sayd shipps Company after such<br />
her comming out to seas either encourage the sayd damerell to put into<br />
the Ice againe, or disswade him from soe doeing./
Repeated the 30th of december<br />
before doctor Godolphin/
John Colvile [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 3 of January 1656/
Examined upon the sayd allegation./
'''William Clarkson''' of Shadwell in the parish of Stepney<br />
and County of Middlesex Shipwright Carpenter of the<br />
Owners Adventure aged twenty nyne yeares or thereaboutes<br />
a wittnes sworne and examined saith and deposeth as followeth vizt
To the first article hee saith That hee knoweth that the voyage in question<br />
was a fishing voyage for Greeneland hee goeing Carpenter of the ''Owners<br />
Adventure''er of the ''Owners<br />
Adventure'' +
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