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To the Barbadoes all which save two horses … To the Barbadoes all which save two horses which dyed at sea safely<br />
arrived there in the sayd shipp and after their arrivall the arlate<br />
Chamberlain and others to whome the sayd horses and mares (as hee<br />
beleeveth) belonged came aboard the sayd shipp and demanded their horses and appointed them to bee brought on shoare in the Barbadoes to<br />
a hovell or boarded house with a rack and manger in it, being neere the<br />
Indian bridge whether they were all carried as hee beleeveth) And hee<br />
this deponent and one Edward Cooke and Cornelius Symonson and John<br />
hone and Bernard Phillipps five of the sayd shipps company carried one<br />
Mare and fower horses (of the horses and mares aforesayd (one of which horses<br />
was the horse in question) to the sayd place by order of the master<br />
Captaine Totty and left them their tyed and left haye before them, and<br />
returned on board the sayd shipp againe according as the sayd Totty<br />
had commanded them to doe and further to the article hee cannot depose
To the third article of the sayd allegation hee saith that hee well<br />
knoweth that the arlate Viber in the shipps outward voyage untill<br />
she came into the downes, was boatswaine of her, and soe made<br />
by the arlate Totty and did take charge of the goods laded aboard her<br />
as boatswaine, and saith the sayd Viber after the sayd shipps<br />
comeing into the downes did to take the shipps boate<br />
from her sterne, and therein hee and his mate Abraham doo[?erne] having<br />
embeazelled divers goods from aboard the sayd shipp to a considerable<br />
value did endeavour to goe away with them but were<br />
pursued by some of the sayd shipps Company and taken and brought<br />
back and divers of the goods in imbezelled found about them as silke<br />
hoods, scarfes and some other goods, and this deponent heard some of<br />
them who persued them saye that the sayd Viber and his mate perseiving<br />
they should bee taken did throw over board divers goods which they<br />
had in imbeazelled, some whereof videlicet some hoodes and such like light things<br />
swamme, and were some of them taken up by the shipps company who<br />
pursued them, and he saith that for this their imbezellment the sayd<br />
Viber and his mate were by the shipps company brought to the sayd<br />
Tottie who only Commanded he them to bee tyed to the Capsterne<br />
a while, and from handcuffs put upon them, but soone after commanded<br />
them to bee released, and [XXX] continued them still on board the sayd<br />
shipp, and only put the sayd Viber out of his place of boatswaine<br />
and put an other therein, and made the sayd Viber quartermaster, and<br />
did not any way prosecute the laws against the sayd Viber but suffered<br />
him to continue quarter Master till after the sayd shipp arrived<br />
in the Barbadoes where the sayd Viber left the sayd shipp and<br />
next entered into with the service of this Commonwealth in the frigott calling<br />
The ''Marston Moore ffrigott'', and made noe satisfaction for<br />
the goods soe imbezelled that hee this deponent knoweth of or ever<br />
heard, And saith hee verily beleeveth that what other goods were laden<br />
aboard the sayd shipp and are imbezelled, were soe imbezelled by the sayd<br />
Viber and his Mate and further to this article he cannot depose./further to this article he cannot depose./ +
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