HCA 13/71 f.477r Annotate

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Company with him they never sawe soe great a quantitie of Ice upon the
Coast and soe they and the sayd damerell did saye and declare severall tymes
in presence of this deponent and others of their shipps Companies whilst
they were at Greeneland and since And further hee cannot answere/
To the 6th hee saith hee hath heard the sayd damerell say that the
Owners Adventures and Greyhound were desyned first for the West
Ice which is called commonly Greene land, and there to goe to the Coast
of Greeneland to fish in any place according to his the sayd
Damerells discretion And further hee cannot answere./

To the 7th hee saith when the sayd Gosling and the sayd damerell fell
at varianse as is predeposed about working further in and leaving
the Company of the other 4 shipps, the Owners Adventure and Grey
hound were then twelve leagues from shoare or thereabouts in this
deponents Judgment, and saith when the words predeposed of happened betwixt
the sayd Maundry and damerell the sayd shipps were in this deponents
Judgement tenn leagues and better from shoare And further to this
Interrogatorie hee cannot answere otherwise than negatively for the
reasons in his foregoing deposition declared./

To the 8th hee saith the Command given by damerell was generall and
as hee beleeveth well heard and understood by the whole Companyes of
the Owners Adventure and Greyhound who all did yield obedience and
this deponent amongst others did helpe to loose the shipp and launch the boates from off the Ice and fitt
them and make them in readiness to worke the sayd shipps further in, while
the sayd Gosling and the Master were at Variance as aforesayd, which
Variance being ended, the sayd Gosling did yeild obedience alsoe, and
did helpe to paye off Ice and doe other worke necessare in order to the
working the sayd shipps further into the Ice toward shoare, and
saith that all the Company did worke willingly without any perswation.
And further saving his foregoing deposition hee cannot answere/

To the 9th hee cannot answere not knowing what the designes of Pibus
Welch and Golding Interrate were/

To the 10th hee saith hee cannot answere knowing of noe Consultation
to the affect Interrogate

To the 11th hee saith the Owners Adventure and Greyhound after they
parted from the other shipps as aforesayd wrought in about fower
myeles, and soe having gott soe much further were then in this deponents
Judgment about tenn leagues and better from shoare, And saith hee
verily beleeveth that and is perswaded in his conscience that it
was impossible by reason of the thicknesse of the Ice toward shoare,
to worke in to the harbour, And further saving his foregoing deposition
hee cannot answere./

To the 12th hee saith that hee heard both the sayd damerell
and the sayd Gosling and Maundrie severall tymes after they came
out of the Ice as aforesayd say that they would did beleeve there
would bee noe getting into harbour that yeare or to that effect
And further hee cannot answere saving his foregoing deposition./