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not being examined to the article Interrog … not being examined to the article Interrogate./
To the 16th hee saith that those that goe to Greeneland in such yeeres<br />
as any store of Ice is there, must waite all opportunities of the opening<br />
of the Ice, or its driving to the Northwards thereby the better to get<br />
into harbour./
To the last hee saith that after the third of July when this deponent<br />
and the other shipps lost the Company of the sayd damerell as<br />
aforesayd this deponent found the Ice thinner and better to<br />
passe than it was before And further hee cannot answere<br />
to this Interrogatorie./
John Pibus [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
Repeated before doctor Godolphin./
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The 2 of March 1656/
Examined upon the sayd allegation
'''7us'''
'''Nicholas Perkins''' of Wapping in the parish of Stepney<br />
and County of Middlesex Mariner aged forty yeares or<br />
thereabouts a wittness sworne and examined saith<br />
and deposeth as followeth videlicet./
To the third article hee saith hee cannot depose for that hee this deponent<br />
(being cheife Mate and Pylott of the ''Merchants Adventure'' of London the<br />
voyage in question of which shipp James Golding was Master) did not come<br />
in Company of the shipp ''Owners Adventure'' untill after the tyme arlate/
To the 4 article of the sayd allegation hee saith that after the shipp ''Owners''<br />
''Adventure'' and the ''Greyhound'' a Pinke belonging to her came in Company of the<br />
''Merchants Adventure'' (the day hee remembreth not but saith it was about the<br />
beginning of June last) the ''Owners Adventure'' and ''Greyhound'' kept company<br />
with the ''Merchants Adventure'' and three other London shipps in her company<br />
whereof Pybus Welch and Child were Masters till the fifteenth of<br />
the sayd Moneth of June, on which day all the sayd sixe shipps began<br />
to worke into the Ice togeather, and with much labour (by reason of the<br />
thicknesse of the Ice toward shoare) did in about twenty fower howers<br />
space gett about tenn leagues (in this deponents Judgement) into the Ice towards<br />
shore, and the Ice proveing still thicker, they could at present gett noe further,<br />
and thereupon hee saith the sayd shipps made fast to the Ice, and the ''Owners''<br />
''Adventure'' and ''Greyhound'' and the sayd Welch and Gouldings shipp all fastned<br />
togeather, and lay a board and board one of an other about sixteene howers till<br />
about the .17th day of the sayd moneth, on which seaventeenth day<br />
the arlate damerell went on board the shipps of the sayd Golding and<br />
Welch, and asked them whether they would endeavour to worke in any further<br />
or not and they told him they sawe noe possibility thereof but would endeavour<br />
with the first oportunitie to gett out againe to Sea or words to that effect, this<br />
heewords to that effect, this<br />
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