HCA 13/71 f.311r Annotate
| Volume | HCA 13/71 |
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| Folio | 311 |
| Side | Recto |
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| First transcriber | |
| Janet Few | |
| First transcribed | |
| 2012/11/08 | |
| Editorial history | |
| Edited on 25/11/2012 and on 29/07/2014 by Colin Greenstreet | |
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and differences betweene the sayd Master and his Mate about the
steereing the sayd shipps course and the sayd Mate would and
did often tymes thwarte and Crosse the Master when hee had shaped
the sayd shipps course, and would cleere alter and change the course
shaped by the Master and this deponent hath heard the sayd May in
the sayd shipps outward course openly before this deponent
and others of the sayd shipps Company upon the deck tell the Master
that hee the sayd May was by the Owners shipped cheife Mate and Pylott
of the sayd shipp for the sayd voyage and that hee would not bee
contradicted or diverted by him the sayd Master or words to that effect
and saith that at one tyme in the sayd shipps outward voyage and
as hee remembreth in or about the moneth of June 1655 the Master
aforesayd did require of the sayd May an Azemoth Compasse
of his the sayd Mayes (and which hee the sayd May kept in his
Cabbin) that hee the sayd Master might thereby observe and finde
the variation, and thereby the better order the sayd shipps course
according as by the use of the same hee should find it fitt, and
the sayd May refused to lett the sayd Master have the same, whereupon
the Master replyed thus or the like in effect it is for the good
of the voyage that I desyre it, and if yow will not lett mee have
it by fayre means I will have it by force, and hee the sayd May
continuing still obstinate in his denyall thereof and endeavouring
to hinder the fetching of the sayd Compasse, the Master upon the
sayd Mays resistence grappled with the sayd May and the sayd
May with the Master, and the master at length threw the sayd May
downe upon the shipps deck neere the steerage doore, and caused
the sayd Compasse to be fetched out of the sayd Mayes Cabbin
and made use thereof for the shipps use and these passages
and speeches happened in presence of this deponent and Robert harwell
Caleb Kyme daniell harman Richard Chapman this deponents
Contests and most of the shipps company and the sayd Master and
the sayd May being parted, John Swinburne the then boatswaine
of the sayd shipp called this deponent upon the forecastle, and
this deponent thinkeing it had bin only to pick Ocam or other
worke requisite about the shipp went thither, and coming thither
sawe and observed that there were diverse handspikes then lying upon the forecastle
but to what intent hee knoweth not, And saieth that about a day or
two after the sayd last mentioned contention betwixt the sayd Master
and the sayd May, hee the sayd May spake to this deponent
and told him that hee the sayd May was like to be turned out of
his Cabbin by the sayd Master and desyred this deponent to
take part with him and to hinder his being turned out, whereto
this deponent answered and sayd that peradventure if hee should doe
soe the Master would not pay him this deponent his wages, And
the sayd May replyed and sayd that I will doe well enough for that yow
shall not neede to feare that I will see you paid your wages Or to that effect, and the sayd Swinburne the
boatswaine
