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sayd Mayes part, and sayd if hee this depo … sayd Mayes part, and sayd if hee this deponent would soe doe, hee this<br />
deponent should fare never the worse, for hee the sayde May would<br />
send to this deponent his wages, whereupon this deponent<br />
and others of the Shipps company<br />
(of which the sayd Swinborne the then boatswaine was one) went upon<br />
the forecastle of the sayd shipp and this deponent seeing some handspikes<br />
there lying, did him selfe heave another upon the forecastle intending<br />
to hinder the sayd Master from punishing the sayd May and further<br />
hee cannot depose./
James Bakar (sic) [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The same day./
'''Rp. 5'''
'''Caleb Kyme''' of Radcliff in the County of Middlesex<br />
Mariner one of the Company of the Shipp the ''Vine''<br />
and Midshippman of her, aged twenty fower yeares or<br />
thereabouts a wittnes sworne and examined saith and<br />
deposeth
That hee this deponent was one of the Company of the shipp the ''Vine'' of<br />
London (wherof was and is Master James Barker) in her last voyage to the East Indies<br />
which she began from Gravesend about the latter end of december<br />
1654 And saith that John May went Masters Cheife Mate and Pylott<br />
of her for the sayd voyage, and that in the sayd voyage outward bound<br />
in the yeare 1655 there were often differences betwixt the sayd Barker and May And one<br />
tyme the difference betweene them hee remembreth was about an Azemuth<br />
Compasse of the sayd Mayes which the sayd Master desyred of the<br />
sayd May, to use for the sayd shipps use, which compasse the sayd<br />
May denyed the sayd Master to use of, whereat the Master being displeased<br />
did in presense and hearing of this deponent and divers others of the the sayd shipps<br />
Company command the then Boatswaine John Swinborne upon perill<br />
of looseing his wages for disobeying his Command to breake open the<br />
the sayd Mayes Cabbin and bring thence the sayd Compass, and the sayd<br />
May then spake to the sayd Boatswaine and sayd I charge you upon perill<br />
of tenn tymes more then the losse of your wages that you lett the sayd<br />
Compasse alone and meddle not with it, or to that effect, whereupon the<br />
sayd Boatswaine did not fetch the sayd Compasse, and the Master being<br />
displeased at the sayd Mayes words the sayd Master and the sayd May<br />
fell to strugleing togeather, and the Master threw the sayd May over a [?coyle GUTTER]<br />
of roape which lay Iust behind the sayd May, and also struck him the sayd May<br />
whereupon some of the sayd shipps Company that were<br />
next to them parted them, and the sayd Master seeing the boatswaine<br />
did not obey his Commands caused him the sayd Masters servant, or<br />
his the sayd Masters brother (but which of them he knoweth not) to fetch<br />
him the sayd Compasse, who brought it out upon the deck the premisses hee<br />
deposeth of his sight and knowledge being one of the shipps company as<br />
aforesayd And further hee cannot depose./
Caleb Kyme [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] depose./
Caleb Kyme [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] +
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