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swifter they were cast behinde and rowed up and downe a long tyme
before they could recover to fasten to the boates againe from whense
they cast off, and haveing recovered them, made fast to them againe, but
the whale towed soe swiftly being pricked in her hinder parts and
toward the boates soe farr into a growne sea, (the sea being then
somewhat rough by reason of a fresh gale of winde that blew)
the boates were like to be cast away thereby, whereupon after they
had thus pursued the sayd whale for some certayne howers (but how many
(hee remembreth not) the sayd Maundrie seeing noe hope of killing
of her threw off his fast, and left the further pursuit of her, and the
sayd humfreys and Parker or some of their boates Crewes seeing
likewise noe hopes of killing her by reason of her swift motion cut
their warpes from the whale and lett her goe, but who gave them order
soe to doe hee knoweth not and further hee cannot depose saving hee
saith on his this deponents Judgment all the sayd harponeers and their Crewes did their best endeavour to have
killed the sayd whale And further./

To the 14th hee saith the arlate Reynolds the Cooper Thomas Chauntrie
Edward Ashmore [BLANK IN MANUSCRIPT] Kirton and Maurice fford were persons
persons to be imployed on land in boyleing and chopping of whales and other
worke after they were catched, and as hee beleeveth have noe skill
in sayling a shipp at sea or to know when it is fitt to carrie her
in or out of a harbour And further to this article hee cannot depose

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 at request only
of Gosling and hath receaved nothing nor is promised nor expecteth any
thing for his testimony And otherwise negatively./

To the second hee saith hee knoweth all the parties litigant 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 Interrogatorie hee saith that hee hath not as yet commensed any action
against the Interrogate Batson Beane or Goldern or any of them
for his wages in this voyage but if hee cannot bee by fayere meanes
payd the same hee must and will take the best course by leave hee can
to recover the same of them And saith as before that hee was hyred
by damerell to goe halfe steeresman of a shallop for one of the
harponeeres, and was on board the shipp Owners Adventure only as a Common man having
noe other office but that above named,/

To the 4th Interrogatorie hee saith saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot
answere more particularly saving hee saith hee heard the Interrogate
Maundrie severall tymes both when the shipp Owners Adventure
was in the Ice beyond the other fower London shipps and at other
tymes after shee came out to sea and had lost their company at
when the sayd damerell did endeavour to put into the Ice againe
saye, that there was noe possibility of getting into harbour the
Ice was soe thick./

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