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To the 3rd article of the sayd allegation hee saith that hee well knoweth<br />
that the arlate John Viber was boateswaine of the shipp the ''Edward and John''<br />
in the tyme of her outward bound voyage untill a while after the sayd shipp came into<br />
the downes and there the sayd Viber and one Abraham [BLANK SPACE IN MANUSCRIPT] his Mate<br />
were by this deponent the Cooper and others of the the sayd shipps company<br />
taken running away with the sayd shipps boate and some goods which<br />
the said Viber and his mate had imbezelled from on board the sayd<br />
shipp and brought back with some of the goods with them, they<br />
the sayd Viber and his mate having as he hath heard heaved overboard some of the<br />
goods by them imbezelled when they sawe they were like to be taken<br />
and this deponent sawe some silke [XXXX] and other things which they had imbezelled pulled out of their pocketts And saith the sayd Tottey thereupon discharged the sayd<br />
Viber of his place of Boateswaine but continued his sayd Mate in<br />
his place of Boateswaines Mate, and put another to bee Boateswaine in<br />
place of the sayd Viber, and made the sayd Viber Quarter Master in which<br />
place hee continued till the sayd shipps arrival in the Barbadoes and<br />
till she had delivered their outward Cargo, and then the said Captaine<br />
Tottey spake to this deponent being his cheife mate and willed him to tell<br />
the sayd Viber that hee might goe on shoare and take his cloathes with him<br />
and bee gone, and the sayd Tottey told this deponent that hee would not be seene<br />
in it nor take any notice of it or to that effect, and this deponent thereupon did<br />
tell the sayd Viber soe much whereupon the sayd Viber tooke his cloathes<br />
and went a shoare and afterwards served under Captaine Miunes in a ffrigott<br />
of this Commonwealth and having gotten enterteynement there caused alsoe<br />
an apprentice which hee the sayd Yiber had and remayned still on board<br />
the ''Edward and John'' to bee taken away from her and put aboard<br />
the sayd ffrigott which caused a falling out betwixt the sayd Captaine<br />
Tottey and the sayd Captaine Miunes his men who came to fetch<br />
sayd apprentice and the sayd Tottey calling them rogues and<br />
[XXXs] for coming to fetch the sayd Apprentice from him and refused to let him goe<br />
whereupon they returned to the ffrigott without the sayd<br />
Prentice, and bought a great force of men with them and tooke<br />
the sayd Prentice perforce and Commanded the sayd Captaine Totty<br />
to goe with them aboard the sayd ffrigott to Captaine Minnes which<br />
hee refused to doe whereupoon they tooke him perforce and carried<br />
him on board the ffrigott where as hee that heard hee was clapt<br />
in the bilboes for the sayd words by him spoken and further hee<br />
cannot depose/
To the 4th he saith that<br />
hee this deponent had noe perticular charge of such servants as<br />
did runne away out of the sayd shipp ''Edward and John'', but saith some<br />
servants did escape away while the sayd shipp lay at Gravesend outward bound and as<br />
hee heard did goe into the service of the Commonwealth and as this<br />
deponent hath heard the sayd Totty had a discharge from Generall<br />
Sedgewick for them, and saith the sayd Totty told this deponent and company<br />
that they should not bee questioned or troubled for these fower which<br />
were escaped for hee had fower others on board that had noe Masters with<br />
whome he would supply the want of these or words to that effect
To want of these or words to that effect
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