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the sayd Woods and those few of the shipps … the sayd Woods and those few of the shipps Company that were sent<br />
to assiste him were fitting the said ffish to goe on board and then<br />
turne about with the longboate to the windewards againe without<br />
offereing their helpe and assistance in ffitting the sayd fish to be carried<br />
on board And further hee cannot depose not knowing how the sayd<br />
Grove the Master imployed those of the shipps company who remayned<br />
aboard whether in picking Okum or otherwise nor heard what<br />
words passed betwixt the sayd Woods and the sayd master touching his<br />
sending soe few on shoare to helpe to lade the sayd ffish./
To the 12th and 13th articles hee saith that about the one and twentith<br />
day of August 1657 arlate the arlate Luke Woods having bin on shoare<br />
in Newfound land came aboard the ''Peace'' with a shallop and brought<br />
with him two boates to fetch salt from aboard her which some<br />
persons on shoare had bought of him, and being come on board<br />
asked the Boatswaine for the sayd Grove the Master, and the Boatswaine<br />
anwered and sayd hee was in his Cabbin, and (as this deponent beleeveth<br />
by the ensueing passages) the sayd Woods there desyred him to give order to his company<br />
to deliver to the sayd boates their ladeings of salt, And saith the<br />
sayd Grove the Master in a great rage came out of his Cabbin and<br />
rann upon the deck, and swore that hee would sinke that boate that<br />
should come there for any salt and the sayd Woods seeing him in such<br />
a rage and furie followed him upon the deck and in a mild manner<br />
entreated and perswaded him to deliver the sayd salt to the sayd<br />
baotes and told him it would bee a great discredit to him the sayd<br />
Wiid in his trade at Newfound land if the sayd boates or the<br />
men on board them should be wronged, and the salt not delivered<br />
whereat the sayd Grove the Master was more enraged and called<br />
the sayd Woods Old Roague and other reproachfull bnames and<br />
holding up his fist to the sayd Woods face sayd thus or the like<br />
in effect if you (speaking to the sayd Woods) were not an old Roague<br />
I would drubb you and further sayd (speaking to the sayd Woods)<br />
you old Roague you were in the hold the other day but if ever I<br />
see you in hold againe I will hoyst you up with a tackle, or words<br />
to the like effect And all those words and passages hee saith were<br />
soe done and spoken upon the open deck in presence of this deponent<br />
and the Boatswaine and others of the sayd shipps Company and was<br />
spoken by the sayd Master in such a lowde and outragio[us GUTTER]<br />
manner that after this deponent went a shoare severall people whoe were<br />
on shoare told this deponent that they were amazed to see and<br />
heare as they stood on shoare such uncivill behaviour and words<br />
given by one that was Master of a shipp to one that was his<br />
Merchant or Supracargo and an anchient man, And further<br />
to those articles hee cannot depose./
To the 14th hee saith hee well remembreth that soone after the sayd<br />
uncivill words and carriage of the sayd Grove the Master, the sayd<br />
Wood being (as hee beleeveth) much discontented thereat went on shoare<br />
leavingthereat went on shoare<br />
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