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not being examined to the article Interrogate./ To the 16th hee saith that those that goe to Greeneland in such yeeres as any store of Ice is there, must waite all opportunities of the opening of the Ice, or its driving to the Northwards thereby the better to get into harbour./ To the last hee saith that after the third of July when this deponent and the other shipps lost the Company of the sayd damerell as aforesayd this deponent found the Ice thinner and better to passe than it was before And further hee cannot answere to this Interrogatorie./ John Pibus [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] Repeated before doctor Godolphin./ *********************************** The 2 of March 1656/ Examined upon the sayd allegation '''7us''' '''Nicholas Perkins''' of Wapping in the parish of Stepney and County of Middlesex Mariner aged forty yeares or thereabouts a wittness sworne and examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet./ To the third article hee saith hee cannot depose for that hee this deponent (being cheife Mate and Pylott of the ''Merchants Adventure'' of London the voyage in question of which shipp James Golding was Master) did not come in Company of the shipp ''Owners Adventure'' untill after the tyme arlate/ To the 4 article of the sayd allegation hee saith that after the shipp ''Owners'' ''Adventure'' and the ''Greyhound'' a Pinke belonging to her came in Company of the ''Merchants Adventure'' (the day hee remembreth not but saith it was about the beginning of June last) the ''Owners Adventure'' and ''Greyhound'' kept company with the ''Merchants Adventure'' and three other London shipps in her company whereof Pybus Welch and Child were Masters till the fifteenth of the sayd Moneth of June, on which day all the sayd sixe shipps began to worke into the Ice togeather, and with much labour (by reason of the thicknesse of the Ice toward shoare) did in about twenty fower howers space gett about tenn leagues (in this deponents Judgement) into the Ice towards shore, and the Ice proveing still thicker, they could at present gett noe further, and thereupon hee saith the sayd shipps made fast to the Ice, and the ''Owners'' ''Adventure'' and ''Greyhound'' and the sayd Welch and Gouldings shipp all fastned togeather, and lay a board and board one of an other about sixteene howers till about the .17th day of the sayd moneth, on which seaventeenth day the arlate damerell went on board the shipps of the sayd Golding and Welch, and asked them whether they would endeavour to worke in any further or not and they told him they sawe noe possibility thereof but would endeavour with the first oportunitie to gett out againe to Sea or words to that effect, this hee
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