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To the 5th hee saith that after the sayd d … To the 5th hee saith that after the sayd damerell with his shipps the ''Owners''<br />
''Adventure'' and ''Greyhound'' came into Company with the sayd Pybus Welch<br />
Golding and Child they kept company together till such tyme as<br />
they all sixe put into the Ice togeather as aforesayd which was in the moneth<br />
of June last but about what day of the moneth hee remembreth not, and<br />
said that in about sixteene howers space the sayd shipps all wrought in<br />
about 7 or 8 leagues, and there made fast as aforesayd and lay fast<br />
about twenty howers, and that in that tyme the sayd damerell did goe on board<br />
the sayd Goldings shipp, and this deponent standing upon the hatches of the ''Owners''<br />
''Adventure'' (which lay board and board of Goldings shipp) heard him speake<br />
to the sayd Golding (and Welch (who was alsoe aboard the sayd Goldings Shipp) and<br />
aske them whether they would endeaour to worke any further into the Ice<br />
toward shoare, whereto the sayd Golding answered and sayd noe, they thought<br />
it not fitting soe to do or words to that effect, And further to this Interrogatorie<br />
hee cannot answer saving his foregoeing deposition and saving he saith that the said Pybus Golding Welch<br />
and Child did worke out with their shippps to Sea againe./
To the 6th 7th and 8th Interrogatories hee saith saving his foregoeing<br />
deposition and saving that after the sayd shipps ''Owners Adventure'' and<br />
''Greyhound'' had wrought about a league further into the Ice toward the shoare then<br />
the other fower shipps did, they were there made fast to the Ice by the<br />
Command of the sayd Damerell, hee cannot answere./
To the 9th hee saith the Interrogate Pybus Golding Welch and Child<br />
are accompted able seamen and men well experienced in the Greeneland<br />
ffishing and have gone as Masters severall voyages to Greeneland and<br />
this deponent went one voyage to Greeneland the very next yeare before the voyage<br />
in question with the sayd Golding And further hee cannot answere./
To the 10th hee saith that hee well knoweth that the said damerell<br />
did not by such his working his two shipps ''Owners Adventure'' and<br />
''Greyhound'' further into the Ice the other fower shipps loose<br />
the company of the other fower shipps, for that hee knoweth<br />
that after they were all sixe got out of the Ice (Pybus his shipp having<br />
receaved dammage by Ice and a hole struck in her bowe by the Ice<br />
in her putting out from the Ice to sea and being thereby soe hurt that shee was<br />
ready to sinke) the Company of the ''Owners Adventure'' and<br />
''Greyhound'' and of the sayd Welch Child and Goldings shipps did<br />
helpe to cleere her of water receaved and stopp her leake, And after<br />
they had soe stopped her leake they all kept Company togeather till<br />
through foggie and stormie weather, they were parted, after which the sayd<br />
damerell having lost their Company did severall tymes after<br />
perswade the Company of the ''Owners Adventure'' and his mates to<br />
endeavour to worke into the Ice toward shoare but his sayd mates<br />
allwaies declared themselves to be unwilling and sayd that it was<br />
impossiblend sayd that it was<br />
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