HCA 13/71 f.471r Annotate
| Volume | HCA 13/71 |
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| Folio | 471 |
| Side | Recto |
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| First transcriber | |
| Colin Greenstreet | |
| First transcribed | |
| 2012/10/19 | |
| Editorial history | |
| Edited on 31/08/2013 by Colin Greenstreet | |
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on land in boyling and doeing other worke so had about whales after they
are taken, and verily beleeveth they have noe skill in sayleing or manageing
of a shipp at Sea, or to knowe when it is fitt to carry her in or out of a harbour
And hee saith that the arlate Mr Beane did in the presence of the arlate Mr
Batson and in the sayd Batsons Counteing house tender unto this deponent a
paper which the sayd Batsons man brought ready written with the names of
severall of the Owners Adventures Company subscribed thereto, which
writeing did importe thus or the like in effect videlicet that the refusall of the sayd shipps Company
to obey the Commands of the sayd damerall was the cause of the Over=
throwe of the voyage in question, and the sayd Beane and Batson desyred
this deponent to sett his hand to the sayd noate, and told him if hee
would subscribe the same they would doe more for him this deponent
than they had done for any other of the subscribers, but this deponent
having perused and read some part of the sayd paper and knowing the
contents thereof to bee false, refused to subscribe thereto, And further to
this article hee cannot depose saving hee saith that hee heard the
sayd Maurice fford saye that (who is one of those whose names are
subscribed to the sayd noate saye, that if the (speakeing of the
sayd Batson) and meaning also the sayd Beane (as this deponent beleeveth)
had not promised to pay him his wages, hee would have seene them
hanged before hee would have come into Court (meaning this Court)
to testifie to testifie on their behalfe./
To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true/
To the Interrogatories [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith hee cometh to testifie by the meanes of the
producents Gosling and Maundry, who caused a compulsorie to bee served
on this deponent to that effect, And to the rest of the Interrogatorie hee answereth
negatively./
To the second hee saith hee knoweth the parties plaintiffs and defendants in this
suite and favoureth them all alike and desyreth right may prevaile in this cause
And to the rest of the Interrogatorie hee answereth negatively./
To the 3 hee saith hee was Gunner of the Owners Adventure the voyage in question,
and hath not commenced any action against the Interrogate Batson Beane
and Golderne or any of them for wayges for t{he} voyage in question nor intendeth to commence
any unlesse hee bee enforced thereunto by their uniust dealeings in denying
to pay him what is due to him./
To the 4th hee saith hee heard the sayd damerell on the fifteenth day of June
1656 command the Companye of the Owners Adventure to worke into the
Ice with the other ffower shipps predeposed, and heard him on the seaventeenth
day commend the sayd Company to worke further into the Ice than the other
fower shipps did, both which commands hee saith the sayd Gosling and Maunfrie
also heard and well understood, and saith that upon the 17th day of June aforesayd
the sayd Gosling seeing and hearing the sayd Damerell command the sayd shipps
Company to worke into the Ice than the other fower shipps did, the sayd Gosling
thereupon
