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And the sayd Weekes raised himselfe by the … And the sayd Weekes raised himselfe by the mayne hallyards<br />
of the shipp and endeavoured to stampe violently upon this deponents<br />
belly but this deponent by thrusting him off with one off his<br />
feete prevented him and soe gott up and gott into the steerage, all<br />
abuse soe offered to the Master and this deponent was done in the presence<br />
of the boatswaine and other of the officers of the sayd shipp who<br />
noe way endeavoured to quell and suppresse the sayd violence and<br />
mutinous actions, And hee saith that after the sayd Jackson had<br />
continued seaven or eight dayes in prison for his misdemeanors<br />
predeposed of, hee sent a noate (which this deponent hath seene and read) to<br />
the sayd Master wherein hee desyred the sayd Master to procure his<br />
liberty, and alsoe declared to this effect that hee had abused<br />
the sayd Mr John dobson and that hee was sorrie for it, and that<br />
hee was in drincke and did not know that hee had abused him untill<br />
hee was afterwards informed thereof and saith that those<br />
mutinous actions and carriages of the sayd shipps Company being<br />
publiquely talked of and taken notice of in Zant the sayd Mavaradino<br />
came to the sayd Master and to this deponent and told him that hee<br />
had bin with the sayd Mr John dobson one of the sayd ffaringtons<br />
factors to demande of him security for such moneys as hee should<br />
shipp aboard the sayd shipp in respect the Company of her were<br />
soe mutinous and disorderly, and that hee had sayd dobson had refused<br />
to give him security for the sayd money soe to bee laden and that the sayd<br />
shipp should faithfully performe her sayd voyage to Tunis and back<br />
to Zant, and therefore hee would lade noe moneys on board her unlesse<br />
the sayd Master and this deponent would give him security by<br />
some residing at Zant to performe the sayd voyage faithfully<br />
for that hee feared the Company of the sayd shipp being<br />
soe mutinous and disobedient might runne away with the sayd shipp<br />
and money or goods therewith bought, which the sayd Master and<br />
this deponent not being able to give or procure there, the sayd<br />
voyage was utterly lost and overthrowne and the sayd ffarington<br />
damnified to a very considerable value by losse of the sayd<br />
shipps imployment And further to<br />
this article hee cannot depose./
To the 7th article hee saith that in the yeares and Moneths<br />
arlate Tunis was and is a free port for English shipps to trade<br />
at, and soe commonly Accompted And further to this article hee<br />
cannot depose./
To the 8th hee saith that the arlate Maveradino told this<br />
deponent after the sayd Company had by their mutinous and<br />
disobedient carriage soe lost both the sayd voyage both to Cassandra<br />
andd voyage both to Cassandra<br />
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