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and differences betweene the sayd Master a … and differences betweene the sayd Master and his Mate about the<br />
steereing the sayd shipps course and the sayd Mate would and<br />
did often tymes thwarte and Crosse the Master when hee had shaped<br />
the sayd shipps course, and would cleere alter and change the course<br />
shaped by the Master and this deponent hath heard the sayd May in<br />
the sayd shipps outward course openly before this deponent<br />
and others of the sayd shipps Company upon the deck tell the Master<br />
that hee the sayd May was by the Owners shipped cheife Mate and Pylott<br />
of the sayd shipp for the sayd voyage and that hee would not bee<br />
contradicted or diverted by him the sayd Master or words to that effect<br />
and saith that at one tyme in the sayd shipps outward voyage and<br />
as hee remembreth in or about the moneth of June 1655 the Master<br />
aforesayd did require of the sayd May an Azemoth Compasse<br />
of his the sayd Mayes (and which hee the sayd May kept in his<br />
Cabbin) that hee the sayd Master might thereby observe and finde<br />
the variation, and thereby the better order the sayd shipps course<br />
according as by the use of the same hee should find it fitt, and<br />
the sayd May refused to lett the sayd Master have the same, whereupon<br />
the Master replyed thus or the like in effect it is for the good<br />
of the voyage that I desyre it, and if yow will not lett mee have<br />
it by fayre means I will have it by force, and hee the sayd May<br />
continuing still obstinate in his denyall thereof and endeavouring<br />
to hinder the fetching of the sayd Compasse, the Master upon the<br />
sayd Mays resistence grappled with the sayd May and the sayd<br />
May with the Master, and the master at length threw the sayd May<br />
downe upon the shipps deck neere the steerage doore, and caused<br />
the sayd Compasse to be fetched out of the sayd Mayes Cabbin<br />
and made use thereof for the shipps use and these passages<br />
and speeches happened in presence of this deponent and Robert harwell<br />
Caleb Kyme daniell harman Richard Chapman this deponents<br />
Contests and most of the shipps company and the sayd Master and<br />
the sayd May being parted, John Swinburne the then boatswaine<br />
of the sayd shipp called this deponent upon the forecastle, and<br />
this deponent thinkeing it had bin only to pick Ocam or other<br />
worke requisite about the shipp went thither, and coming thither<br />
sawe and observed that there were diverse handspikes then lying upon the forecastle<br />
but to what intent hee knoweth not, And saieth that about a day or<br />
two after the sayd last mentioned contention betwixt the sayd Master<br />
and the sayd May, hee the sayd May spake to this deponent<br />
and told him that hee the sayd May was like to be turned out of<br />
his Cabbin by the sayd Master and desyred this deponent to<br />
take part with him and to hinder his being turned out, whereto<br />
this deponent answered and sayd that peradventure if hee should doe<br />
soe the Master would not pay him this deponent his wages, And<br />
the sayd May replyed and sayd that I will doe well enough for that yow<br />
shall not neede to feare that I will see you paid your wages Or to that effect, and the sayd Swinburne the<br />
boatswaine sayd Swinburne the<br />
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