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that fastned the said Colquites Rope, to t … that fastned the said Colquites Rope, to the<br />
said Osburnes ship Rope, and afterwards sawe the said<br />
Colquite cut the said Rope, And further cannot depose./:
To the 4th hee saith that hee well knoweth the arlate<br />
Peter Smith, and Hance Peterson who have bin Examined<br />
in this Cause on behalfe of Mr Wood and Mr Bradley<br />
and were two of the said ships Company, and they were very<br />
Idle fellowes, and much Given to searing and drinking<br />
and other debauchery and would at the Canaryes have betrayed<br />
the ship and the said Colquite did sometimes in the said<br />
voyage give them milde and due Correction, for which the<br />
said Smith and Peterson have bore greate Mallice<br />
to the said Colquite, and have often said aboard in the said voyage in the presence of this Deponent and severall of the said Ships Com[/PANY GUTTER] that<br />
they would be revenged of him, And hath likewise jheard<br />
them soe say, at the black boy in Cornehill, and after<br />
the said Hance was Examined herein, he went to one Mr w[right GUTTER]<br />
a waiter on board the said ship ''Desire'', and told him<br />
as the said wright told this Deponent that nowe hee had<br />
fitted Colquite, And saith that some of the ''Alexanders''<br />
men have told this Deponent that they never did knowe<br />
or heare that the said Colquit did take away their<br />
Anchors and Cables till the said two dutch men and one<br />
Peter Hauss[?en] came and swore it or to that effect, And<br />
saith that when this deponent fastned the said Colquites Rope<br />
to the slip boy belonging to the said Osburnes ship,<br />
both the said Peter Smith Hance Peterson<br />
and Peter Hayss{?en] were all drunke and much<br />
distempered with drinking of wine, and when the<br />
said Rope was Cut they were more distempered, and<br />
the said Peter Smith, was sleeping in his Cabbin, and<br />
the said Hance Peterson and Peter Hauson were then<br />
sleeping on the Deck of the said ship. and none of them<br />
were then sensible of what they did, and soe much<br />
was taken notice of by all the said ships Company<br />
And they are all Persons, that make little Concience of<br />
what they say or sweare and such Persons, to whom noe<br />
Credit is to be Given, which hee knoweth Goeing all the<br />
voyage with them, And further Cannot depose
To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true./.
To the Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first hee saith that the said Colquite requested<br />
this Deponent to come and Testify in this Cause and hath noe share<br />
nor Interesty therein, and saith it will be neither benefit<br />
nor losse to him which side soever prevaile herein, and neither hath he<br />
received, nor Expecteh nor hath bin promised any thing<br />
for his testimony herein and otherwise cannot Answer:
Tony herein and otherwise cannot Answer:
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