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other occasions And<br />
John Jacks … other occasions And<br />
John Jackson Theodore Weekes and fower or five more of the sayd<br />
shipps Company came with the sayd shipps longe boate and fetcht<br />
water and carried the same on board and returned to fetch wood<br />
but when they came to shoare they all of them save one (by name<br />
Thomas Richards left the sayd boate at the streame side and went<br />
into the Towne of Zant and there fell a drinkeing in soe much that<br />
being distempered with drinke they went to a place where the<br />
Merchants there use to meete and there meeting with Mr [XXXX GUTTER]<br />
dobson one of the ffactors of the sayd ffarington began (as this<br />
deponent hath heard was informed) to abuse and revile the sayd<br />
dobson, (and the sayd dobson (as hee hath alsoe heard) procured<br />
some souldiers to apprehend the sayd John Jackson and<br />
put him on the guards in prison, where this deponent afterwards<br />
sawe him, and the the rest of the sayd Company who were with<br />
the sayd Jackson fledd to the skiffe of the sayd shipp<br />
''Geo: Bonadventure'' the rest of their crue being in the towne attending the master [XXXX] and soe gott on board the sayd shipp and being<br />
gott on board (as the foresayd Nathaniell hutchinson told this<br />
deponent) they sayd the boate should not goe to shoare<br />
to fetch the Master and this deponent, nor bring them on board<br />
unlesse the Master would procure the sayd Jackson to bee<br />
released of his imprisonment or words to that effect or to that effect and with all the<br />
sayd hutchinson told this deponent that John Brookes one of<br />
those that soe fledd and gott on board, vowed that hee would<br />
bee the death of one (not nameing whome)<br />
which notwithstanding<br />
the sayd hutchinson caused the shipps skiffe with one<br />
man only to scull her to come a shoare to bring the sayd Master<br />
and this deponent aboard, and this deponent and the sayd Master and those of<br />
the sayd skiffes Crew who attended in towne upon him went aboard<br />
the sayd shipp in the sayd Skiffe, and the sayd Master and this deponent and those who<br />
came with them being come on board the sayd Brookes and<br />
the sayd Weekes and others of the sayd shipps Company asked the sayd<br />
Master where the sayd John Jackson was and<br />
withall layed violent hands upon the sayd Master and [looXX GUTTER]<br />
his Coate, and told him hee should fetch the sayd Jackson, and<br />
this deponent desyring them to bee quiett and not to meddle<br />
with and affront the sayd Master the sayd Brookes Weekes and<br />
others of the sayd shipps Company fell violently upon this deponent<br />
and amongst them tripped up this deponents heeles at the steereage doors<br />
and theat the steereage doors<br />
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