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There was noe likelihood of their killing … There was noe likelihood of their killing the sayd whale they<br />
Cut their warpes and lett her goe And further he cannot depose/
To the 7th he saith that at such tyme as the Company, (as is predeposed) did<br />
worke out of the Ice to Sea againe, the ''Owners Adventure'' and ''Greyhound'' were (in this<br />
deponents Judgement) about eight leagues from shoare and further saveing this<br />
foregoeing deposition he cannot depose for for that hee was never at Greeneland<br />
before the voyage in question./
To the 8th and 9th hee saith as before hee hath deposed that the foresayd Pybus<br />
Welch Golding and Childs shipps were in company with the ''Owners<br />
Aventure'' and ''Greyhound'' whom they endeavoured as aforesayd to gett through<br />
the Ice to shoare, And saith hee beleveeth the sayd fower shipps did<br />
afterwards gett into harbour and fish there for that hee sawe aboard them<br />
after their returne to London that voyage good freights<br />
of oyle and whalebone, And<br />
saith hee beleeveth that in case the sayd Gosling and Maundrie had<br />
not at severall tymes during the sayd voyage by their speeches and<br />
behaviour discouraged the Companyes of the ''Owners Adventure'' and<br />
''Greyhound'' as indeede they did (for the Master at an other tyme after<br />
their Comming out to Sea as aforesayd having<br />
by fowle weather bin beaten out to Sea divers leagues and lost the Company<br />
of the other fower shipps and alsoe of the ''Greyhound'' did make in againe towards Shoare and coming<br />
to the edge of the Ice and being then in this deponents Judgement about sixe<br />
or eight leagues from shoare and the Ice there divers in this deponents Judgment very thinne and probable to bee passed did command the Companye of the ''Owners<br />
Adventure'' and ''Greyhound'' to worke into the Ice and make to shoare whereto the<br />
sayd Maundry replyed and sayd thus or the like in effect I would they were hanged<br />
that layes their hand to a roape to worke in, and I bee hanged drawne and<br />
quartered if any shipp gett into harbour in Greeneland this yeare, and alsoe<br />
sayd If would I were aboard of my brothers shipp (meaning the the shipp whereof<br />
his brother John Maundrey was master) or of some dutch shipp) the sayd<br />
''Owners Aventure'' might<br />
have gotten to harbour and made a good<br />
voyage alsoe if the sayd Gosling and Maundrie had bin as foreward and<br />
willing thereto as the master was, and had not by their words discouraged the<br />
sayd shipps Company as they did, And further hee cannot depose./
To the 10th hee saith that the arlate Batson Beane and Golderne did as he beleeveth laye out<br />
a considerable summe of money for victualing and fitting out the two<br />
vessells arlate for the voyage in question (but how much hee knoweth not) and<br />
saith there was only brought home<br />
about halfe a tonne and better of ffinne, and as much blubber as made<br />
eighteene tonne and a half of oyle or thereabouts, all which was brought home<br />
in the ''Owners Adventure'', and it was in the deponents Judgement, the oyle, worth<br />
about eighteen or twenty pounds a tonne, and the finne worth about threescore pounds<br />
sterling And further saving his foregoing deposition he cannot depose/
To the 11th hee saith that the arlate Batson Beane and Golderne by reason<br />
of the insuccessefullnes of the voyage in question are dammified to a<br />
considerable value, but what to estimate the same at hee knoweth not, with<br />
dammage as hee in his this deponents judgement came by reason of the sayd<br />
Gosling and Maundry their unwillingnesse to obey the sayd damerells Commands<br />
and their discourageing the Companys of the vessells in manner aforesayd And<br />
further he cannot depose. And<br />
further he cannot depose. +
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