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not being examined to the article Interrogate./

To the 16th hee saith that those that goe to Greeneland in such yeeres
as any store of Ice is there, must waite all opportunities of the opening
of the Ice, or its driving to the Northwards thereby the better to get
into harbour./

To the last hee saith that after the third of July when this deponent
and the other shipps lost the Company of the sayd damerell as
aforesayd this deponent found the Ice thinner and better to
passe than it was before And further hee cannot answere
to this Interrogatorie./

John Pibus [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

Repeated before doctor Godolphin./

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The 2 of March 1656/

Examined upon the sayd allegation

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Nicholas Perkins of Wapping in the parish of Stepney
and County of Middlesex Mariner aged forty yeares or
thereabouts a wittness sworne and examined saith
and deposeth as followeth videlicet./

To the third article hee saith hee cannot depose for that hee this deponent
(being cheife Mate and Pylott of the Merchants Adventure of London the
voyage in question of which shipp James Golding was Master) did not come
in Company of the shipp Owners Adventure untill after the tyme arlate/

To the 4 article of the sayd allegation hee saith that after the shipp Owners
Adventure and the Greyhound a Pinke belonging to her came in Company of the
Merchants Adventure (the day hee remembreth not but saith it was about the
beginning of June last) the Owners Adventure and Greyhound kept company
with the Merchants Adventure and three other London shipps in her company
whereof Pybus Welch and Child were Masters till the fifteenth of
the sayd Moneth of June, on which day all the sayd sixe shipps began
to worke into the Ice togeather, and with much labour (by reason of the
thicknesse of the Ice toward shoare) did in about twenty fower howers
space gett about tenn leagues (in this deponents Judgement) into the Ice towards
shore, and the Ice proveing still thicker, they could at present gett noe further,
and thereupon hee saith the sayd shipps made fast to the Ice, and the Owners
Adventure and Greyhound and the sayd Welch and Gouldings shipp all fastned
togeather, and lay a board and board one of an other about sixteene howers till
about the .17th day of the sayd moneth, on which seaventeenth day
the arlate damerell went on board the shipps of the sayd Golding and
Welch, and asked them whether they would endeavour to worke in any further
or not and they told him they sawe noe possibility thereof but would endeavour
with the first oportunitie to gett out againe to Sea or words to that effect, this
hee