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ships Company, (Except one Youth) did dese … ships Company, (Except one Youth) did desert and leave the sayd ship<br />
and went into the Duke of Brandenburgh's service, and never came<br />
or returned againe, into the said ships service, And saith that<br />
Imediately after their goeing into the said Dukes service, they and<br />
about tenn other souldiers or officers of the Generall of the Duke<br />
of Brandenburghs ffleet; came and forceably and violently tooke<br />
and Carried away an Anchor and Cables and Some other thing[s GUTTER]<br />
and attempted to have seized the said ship, but the said<br />
Thomas Dunn did make Resistance with his sword; and this<br />
deponent and two more be saith that the said Company and Souldiers<br />
did give the said Thomas Dunn very Opprobious Language<br />
and did threaten that if they could come at him, hey<br />
would breake his bones, or heave him overboard, or to that<br />
effect; And saith the said ship was Repaired about the<br />
latter end of May last, but what the said Repaires cost hee<br />
knoweth not, And Lastly he saith that the meanes of the said<br />
Company soe defecting and Leaving the said ship, was<br />
because the said Dunn would not pay them their Wages<br />
before the Voyage was ended; which was Contrary to the Contract<br />
which they made with the said Dunn in England,<br />
The Premises hee deposeth being at Quinsborowe, and<br />
seeing the Premisses Acted and done as aforesaid, And<br />
further hee cannot Answer:/:
To the second hee saith hee came from Quinsborowe before<br />
the said ship was sunck, and therefore knoweth nothing<br />
thereof, but veryly beleeveth shee will cost more weighing<br />
then she is worth:/:
To the Crosse Interrogatories./. [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first hee referreth himselfe to his foregoeing deposition<br />
and otherwise hee answereth negatively, not knowing<br />
any who are the owners of the said ship:/:
To the second hee saith the said ship at Arrived at Quinsborowe<br />
in the Moneth of May last, but on what day this deponent<br />
knoweth, nor knoweth hee what the reason was that the<br />
said ship went soe farr, up into the River of Quinsborowe<br />
for that hee was not of the said ships Company and<br />
otherwise cannot Answer.
To the 3d 4th and 5th hee knoweth nothing thereof/.
To the 6th hee saith that hee never sawe any but the Master and one<br />
youth aboard the said ship while she soe lay in the said<br />
River she soe lay in the said<br />
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