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certayne knowledge depose for that hee wen … certayne knowledge depose for that hee went not with them, but hath heard<br />
his Contest Thomas Lindsey and this deponents Mate Edward Cooke, two of<br />
those (who as they sayd were imployed to carrie them) saye that they carried<br />
them to a hovell or stable with a rack and manger neere the Indian bridge<br />
in the Barbados which (as they sayd) was the place where all the rest of<br />
the horses whose owners were not ready on shoare to receave then was<br />
lost, and noe body being there (as they sayd to receave them) they<br />
were all five tyed there and there left And further hee cannot depose/
To the 3 hee saith hee well knoweth that the arlate Viber in the<br />
outward bound voyage of the sayd shipp was Boatswaine of the sayd<br />
shipp by appointment of the sayd Tottie and looks upon him the charge<br />
of such goods as were delivered on board her untill such tyme as the<br />
shipp lying in the downes the sayd Viber and his mate Abraham<br />
[?deveren] having as afterward appeared imbezelled divers goods<br />
from on board the sayd shipp did lease the shipps boate from her sterne in<br />
the night tyme and with their goods imbezelled rann away with the sayd<br />
boate, but were discovered by this deponents contest John Watson, who<br />
seeing then running away with the boate, gave notice to the rest of<br />
the company and thereupon persuite was made after them by divers<br />
of the shipps Company in the shipps long boate, and they being<br />
taken some of the Company brought them back in the skiffe they<br />
endeavored to runne away with, and left others to bringe back<br />
the long boate And after the sayd Viber and his Mate were brought<br />
on board and and the long boate returned, the Company of the long boate<br />
shewed some taffaty hoods and scarfes which they had found, some<br />
floating on the water, and others which they found scattered in the skiffe<br />
Viber and his mate were taken in, and the same being shewed on<br />
shipp board and Mr Browning a passenger that had goods on board<br />
owned the sayd hoods and scarfes to bee his goods and the sayd Vibers<br />
Cabin being searched the boxe out of which the same and divers other<br />
goods were imbezelled was found broken open and in the sayd<br />
Vibers Cabbin, with all which the sayd Captaine Totty was made<br />
acquainted but hee the sayd Captaine Totty only caused the sayd<br />
Viber and his mate to bee brought and tyed to the Capsterne as a punish-<br />
ment for such his offence, but released him soone after, and discharged<br />
him of his boatswaines place, and put an other therein, but kept the<br />
sayd Viber and his Mate aboard and made Viber a quater Master<br />
which office hee continued till the shipp arrived at the Barbados<br />
and for a good while after, where hee the sayd Totty suffered the sayd<br />
Viber to goe away without prosecuting the lawe against him for his<br />
sayd imbezelments, and without any satisfaction made for them that this<br />
deponent knoweth of as hath heard And further hee cannot depose/
To the 4th hee saith that there were fower servants shipped aboard the<br />
sayd shipp and consigned to one Cooper in this arltice mentioned which<br />
servants while the shipps remayned at Gravesend outwards bound (this<br />
deponent and the boatswaine Viber being on shoare there with the shipps skiffe<br />
and the long boate being gone to London upon busines<br />
for the shipp) made an escape in a strange boat which brought some Company a strange boat which brought some Company +
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