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would come fowle of the sayd other shipp y … would come fowle of the sayd other shipp yet the sayd Grove the<br />
Master of the ''Peace'' would not suffer those at the helme to alter<br />
the course, but hold on the same course and soe [?ranne] with the ''Peace'' aboard the sayd other<br />
shipp on board which the sayd Woods was, and rann her in the quarter<br />
with that violence, that hee thereby much endangered the losse of both<br />
the sayd shipps, in soemuch that the ffrench men aboard the sayd other<br />
shipp seeing the danger they were in, rann out of the sayd ffrench<br />
shipp aboard the ''Peace'' to save them selves, and lost the sayd Woods<br />
aboard the sayd fffrench shipp, And the sayd Woods seeing what had<br />
happned did with much danger gett out of the ffrench shipp and<br />
gett hold of the rayles of the head of the ''Peace'', and there hange a<br />
while in great danger either to fall into the sea or be crushed betweene<br />
the sayd two shipps, and hath undoubtedly perished by one of those<br />
?meanes had hee not cried out and besought some of the ''Peace'' her compsny<br />
to helpe him whereupon one of them named james Jenkins and<br />
another of them whose name hee remembreth not gott holde of him and<br />
pull;led him aboard the ''Peace'' and soe saved him from being crushed<br />
betweene the sayd shipps which presently after boate one against<br />
the other All which danger and hurt hee saith might have bi<br />
prevented of the sayd Grove the Master had not held on his course<br />
in manner aforesayd. And further hee cannot depose./
To the 20th article hee saith hee knoweth that the ''Peace'' was from the<br />
New found land bound for the Barbathos, and heard<br />
Robert Chipp an experinced Seaman of the Company of the<br />
''Peace'' saye that the sayd Grove the Master never brought the sayd<br />
shipp into her due latitude for gaineing the Barbados And saith<br />
that by the course which the sayd Grove caused to be steered the sayd<br />
shipp missed the Barbados, and made Saint Lusea and thence arrived<br />
at Nevis in the moneth of November 1657 And further hee<br />
cannot depose./
To the 21th hee saith hee cannot depose/
To the 22th hee saith that by reason of the ''Peace'' her missing of the Island of<br />
Barbados shee laye at Nevis severall moneths to dispose there of her fish<br />
and other Commodities and lay soe long there in disposeing the same that a great<br />
part of her fish was rotten and faine to be throwne over board And saith that long<br />
before the fish aboard the ''Peace'' was disposed of there came into Nevis<br />
a ketch laden with fish whereof the arlate John hollway was (as hee hath heard) Merchant<br />
And further to this article hee cannot depose/
To the 23th article hee saith hee cannot of cetayne knowledge depose any thing<br />
thereto but hath heard severall of the Mariners of the ''Peace'' saye that the<br />
evell behaviour of the sayd Grove the Master of the ''Peace'' was the cause<br />
why severall persons who had goods to send for England from Nevis and<br />
Saint Christophers did refuse to put their goods aboard the sayd shipp and<br />
adventure them with a master of such evell behaviour as hee was, and the<br />
XXhaviour as hee was, and the<br />
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