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and saith that as hee hath heard and belee … and saith that as hee hath heard and beleeveth all the rest of the mariners of the sayd shipp the sayd<br />
voyage did consent to the sayd agreement And further to these articles hee<br />
cannot depose/
To the 3 article of the sayd allegation that the sayd shipp having sett sayle from this<br />
Port of London arived neere Cormantine upon the Coast of Guinney and<br />
being come thither and before they came to that place of Guinney to which the sayd<br />
shipp was designed the arlate Towers Sedgemore Griffin Browne Pollard<br />
ffrost and Trigg raised a mutiny in the sayd shipp wherein the arlate Abraham the Cooke and all the rest of<br />
the mariners thereof by their instigation and perswasion (except this<br />
deponent and Thomas Paramore the Masters mate) conspired against the Master<br />
and contrary to the Masters Command and against his will there brought<br />
the sayd shipp to an Anchor and kept her to an Anchor a day and a halfe<br />
and one night and refused to sayle any further with the sayd shipp and<br />
in order thereto prepared their cloathes in a readinesse to goe ashoare<br />
and threatned the Master to goe ashoare and desert the shipp unlesse the sayd<br />
Master would give them bond to pay them their wages then due within<br />
tenn or eleven dayes after the arrivall of the sayd shipp at the Barbados<br />
which the sayd Master to appease the sayd mutinye and keepe them from<br />
deserting the sayd shipp before shee came to her designed port in Guinney<br />
was forced to doe and did doe this hee knoweth being one of the sayd<br />
shipps Company And further hee cannot depose/
To the 4th hee saith that after the sayd bond soe entered by the Master the sayd<br />
shipps company went to Banda in Guinney where there were Negroes [?taken GUTTER]<br />
aboard whereon they went thence to the Barbados and further to this<br />
article hee cannot depose/
To the fifth article hee saith and deposeth that the said voyage<br />
the said Master was traversed and vexed with and by his said refractorie<br />
mariners, and particularly in the passage<br />
from the said River of Banda for the Barbadas, the foresaid mutin[?ous GUTTER]<br />
that his distraction and trouble increased, and still the nearer that<br />
they came to they Barbadas the more their importunitie and<br />
clamour upon the master increased and soe did his disquiet<br />
by meanes thereof, Insomuch that comming in view of the<br />
Land of Barbadas hee by their frequent tormenting him became<br />
wholly distracted, and unserviceable and unfit to act and<br />
doe according to his place and dutie in the busineses of the<br />
said shipp, and saith the said mariners would not suffer the<br />
Negroes to goe out of the shipp but by order of the Justice<br />
and authoritie there, a sute being there instituted by them against<br />
the master, And otherwise hee cannot depose saving as aforesaid
To the sixth and seaventh articles hee saith and deposeth that<br />
the merchant at the Barbadas that was to receive and did<br />
receive the Negro's having reproved the said mariners, for [XXXXX]<br />
obstinacie against their master, earnestly exhorted and desired them<br />
to carry the said shipp to England, and promised them their wages<br />
according to agreement upon their arrivall thether, and offered<br />
to furnish them with provisions and necessaries for the voyage, hee<br />
[?thXXX GUTTER]he voyage, hee<br />
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