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with a Cargoe of goods brought from Englan … with a Cargoe of goods brought from England and the arlate Joshua<br />
Bartlett had then the Command of the sayd shipp as Master of her and<br />
was commonly reputed Master of her and soe continued till the sayd shipps<br />
returne to London And alsoe saith that John Thawley and the rest of<br />
the parties schedulate togeather with others were then Mariners in and<br />
aboard the sayd shipp and soe continued (all save such as dyed in the<br />
voyage) until the sayd shipps returne to London, And hee saith that of<br />
his this deponents knowledge the sayd shipp was at the Barbados after her<br />
arrivall there and delivery of her ladeing brought thither, hired to goe thence upon<br />
a tradeing voyage to the Cape de Verd Islands, and thence back to the<br />
Barbados, and did accordingly depart thense bound to the Cape de Verd<br />
Islands about the beginning of january 1655 (old style) and this deponent<br />
went in her Supracargoe for the sayd voyage to the Cape de Verde Islands,<br />
and thereby knoweth that the sayd Tr[X]wley and other the Mariners of<br />
the sayd shipp the did worke very hard in carrying of salt from the<br />
ponde wh[XX]ch they raked it, and laying it in a heape for others whome<br />
this deponent imployed to carry the same to the water side, and in goeing<br />
up to the midd legg and better in the pond to rake it out thense, and after=<br />
ward in carrying it from the water side on shipp board, And saith that<br />
from thense the sayd shipp touching at severall Ilands came to ffagoe<br />
arlate where by this deponents order they tooke aboard the sayd<br />
shipp about a hundred and thirty head of Cattell horses and Asses<br />
besides Cowes and Bulls and Asses which were taken in at Saint Teago<br />
and Bonavist, in takeing in of which Cattell, the sayd shipps Company<br />
tooke great paines, and alsoe did undergoe much labour and danger<br />
in getting grasse and water for them, and went in danger of their<br />
lives in the performance thereof, by reason of the extraordinary sea<br />
which continually runnes thereabouts, and one tyme they goeing for<br />
water their boate was splitt by the violence of the sea and some of<br />
the boates company escaped by swimming, and others were miraculously<br />
cast on shoare by the waves, And the sayd shipps Company did take<br />
great paines likewise in lookeing to and attending the sayd Cattell and did<br />
by turnes goe amongst them to looke to them, and by mayne strength<br />
lifte up such as were downe to prevent them from being trodd upon and<br />
killed by the other beasts, and saith hee observed that those whose turne<br />
it was to goe among the Cattell were usually much foyled and b[?em]gered with<br />
lifting them up, all which paines they did endure for the goods of the<br />
Master, Owners and voyage, and saith that while they soe continued at<br />
ffagoe and the Cape de Verd Islands fower or five of the sayd shipps<br />
Company fell sick of feaver and other diseases and thereof dyed And<br />
further to those articles hee cannot depose not knowing any thing touching<br />
the hyreing of any of the sayd shipps Company nor what wages<br />
they were by agreement to have./
To the 4th 5th and 6th articles of the sayd allegation hee saith that hee this<br />
deponent goeing from Cape Verde Islands and ffagoe to the Barbados and goeing a passenger from the Barbados to England in the shipp<br />
the ''Recovery'', thereby knoweth that after her company had indured the<br />
hard shipp predeposed of at the Cape de Verde Islands and ffagoe, they went thense<br />
with ffagoe, they went thense<br />
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