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open the shipps cuttle and imbezelling the … open the shipps cuttle and imbezelling the wyne, as in deed<br />
they did, And saith the sayd Gyles Bayley when the shipp came to<br />
the Barbadoes having purloyned and stolne a runlett of wyne<br />
of about tenn gallons carried it on shoare at the Barbadoes to [?sell GUTTER]<br />
and was apprehended selling the same, by some excize men<br />
belonging to the Island for offering the same to sale it not being<br />
entered in the Excise office and the sayd Bayley being reproved by<br />
the foresayd Jones the Master for such his pilfering and debauch[?ed GUTTER]<br />
behaviour the sayd Bayley kept ashoare and came not aboard afterwards to help<br />
to deliver her outward Cargo brought to the Barbados, or to take in<br />
her homewards ladeing, but laye ideleing ashoare till the<br />
very day that the sayd shipp was ready to sett sayle thence And<br />
then came aboard
And the sayd Aron ffranck alsoe kept divers dayes there idleing on shoare soe that his master was forced to hyre other<br />
men to helpe to lade the sayd<br />
shipps homeward ladeing [LH MARGIN]
and in the homewards voyage the sayd Bayley<br />
and ffrancke continueing their disolute carriage and behaviour did<br />
breake open some hogsheads and butts of sugar and pilfered and stole sugar<br />
out of them and were taken soe doeing and the sayd Aron ffrancke<br />
in the shipps homeward voyage from the Barbados being one<br />
morning at the helme steereing, and steereing her carelessly, and<br />
illfavouredly, the sayd Jones the Master found fault with him for his<br />
carelessenes in steereing, and told him hee would make him steere<br />
better or else hee would drubb his Coate or to that effect whereupon<br />
the sayd Aron ffranke, in presence of this deponent and the sayd Bayly<br />
and others who were then upon the watch, told the sayd Master that if<br />
hee struck him the sayd ffranck hee would shew him a dutch trick<br />
and therewithall put his hand in his pockett and pulled out his knife<br />
which the Master perceiving him to bee about to doe stopped into his<br />
Cabbin and fetcht out his Curtilase, and returned and told the<br />
sayd ffranck hee would shew him an English trick and thereupon<br />
called to the shipps company to lay hold of the sayd ffranck and<br />
binde him but they not obeying command the sayd ffranck ran<br />
away and gott up into the fore topp, and kept out of the masters<br />
sight for a day, and the next tyme the Master had<br />
and oportunitie hee himselfe layed hands on the sayd ffrancke and<br />
caused him to be bound, but after an hower or two some of the<br />
Company lett him loose, after which the sayd ffrancke sayd hee<br />
hoped the dunkirkers would meete with the sayd shipp ''Golden''<br />
''ffortune'' which if they did then hee would bee revenged of the<br />
Master for bindeing him, and if they did not hee sayd thatin<br />
London hee should finde an oportunitie to bee revenged on him<br />
and this hee spake severall tymes before this deponent and divers others<br />
of the shipps company And further to this article hee cannot depose/
To the 12th hee saith that since the sayd Bayley and ffranck their coming<br />
home they have in company of this deponent and others of the sayd<br />
shipps Company who wer ashoare with them sayd and declared<br />
that they would both of them doe the sayd Jones the Master all the<br />
mischeife they could, and that they would bee revenged of him or<br />
words to that effect And further hee cannoot depose
To effect And further hee cannoot depose
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