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Transcription

Chauntry Ashmore and fford only during this voyage and since, and saith
the first tyme hee sawe them was at Gravesend before the shipps Adventure and
Greyhound went from thense upon the voyage in question And what they
are accompted as to their repute and honestie hee knoweth not nor whether
they were ever at Greeneland before the voyage in question. And
further cannot answere./

To the 16th hee saith he was never at Greenland till the voyage in
question and soe farr as hee observed the ice did not then open more then as the
same was forced by strength of men who endeavoured to make their way
through it and further cannot answere/

To the 17th hee saith hee never heard the sayd damerell after hee was
gotten out of the Ice as aforesayd make any the least overture to his
company to goe in againe and therefore knoweth not what to beleeve
as touching others but saith hee would have
obeyed commands in the cause Interrogate, nor knoweth whether the Ice were better or worse for
enterance after the sayd damerell came out thereof And further saving
his foregoeing deposition hee cannot answere.

Repeated before doctor Godolphin/

John Elley [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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The 29th day of december 1656/

Examined upon the sayd allegation./

Rp. 2

John Colvile of Ratcliff in the parish of Stepney and county
of Middlesex Mariner Gunner of the Owners Adventure aged
thirty sixe yeares or thereabouts a wittnes sworne and examined
saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet./

To the first and second articles of the sayd allegation hee saith for that
his this deponent went Gunner of the Owners Adventure the voyage in question
hee knoweth that the sayd voyage was a voyage to Greeneland for the catching
of whales and that the arlate Thomas damerell was and went master of her
and the arlate Richard Maundry and Edward Gosling went and were his Mates
of the sayd shipp the sayd voyage And further to those articles hee cannot
depose not being present when the sayd Maundrie and Gosling were hyred nor
knowing who hyred them nor what agreement was made with them./

To the 3 article of the sayd allegation hee saith that the arlate Maundry and
Gosling and the Rest of the Company of the Owners Adventure did about the
second of June 1656 bring the sayd shipp within three leagues or thereabouts
of Bell Point arlate, and that when they were there, the Port did beare
North East of the sayd shipp, and being gott soe neere, this deponent and
the rest of the sayd shipps company did expect that the sayd damerell
the Master would have given order to have wrought the sayd shipp further
into the ice or at least made her fast to the ice which if hee had done
in all likelyhood and as hee verily beleeveth hee the sayd damerell might
have gotten the sayd shipp into Bell Sound hee having then a fairer oportunitie
soe