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To the first article hee saith that hee th … To the first article hee saith that hee this deponent was Cooper of<br />
the shipp the ''Edward and John'' the voyage in question, and that hee and her<br />
company entered into whole paye that voyage the second of June 1655<br />
and continued in service on board her till the two and twentith of<br />
July 1656 and that during that tyme hee and they did<br />
doe their dutyes as Mariners in her for preservation of her and her ladeing<br />
and such things as they were required to doo by the arlate Tottey<br />
and further hee cannot depose/
To the second hee saith hee knoweth that there were twenty sixe<br />
horses and gueldings and two mares put on board the sayd shipp/<br />
The ''Edward and John'' to bee transported to the Barbadoes to whome<br />
they were consigned, two of which horses or gueldings dyed at<br />
sea by the way, and the rest the sayd Totty carried safely to the<br />
Barbadoes after severall owners came to demande them<br />
and saith the sayd Chamberlaine came on board the sayd shipp at<br />
the Barbadoes after severall horses had bin delivered to other persons,<br />
and openly upon the deck<br />
in hearing of this deponent and of William huggerey the Masters mate<br />
and others of the shipps company sayd that if his horses were not<br />
that night put on shoare hee would protest against the Master and<br />
shipp, or words to that effect, whereupon hee saith that a mare<br />
and three or fower horses or gueldings (which were all that then<br />
remayned on board (undelivered) were that evening hoysted out<br />
out of the shipp into a boate to bee carried on shoare, this deponent<br />
helpeing to hoiste them into the boate, but how many of them<br />
belonged to the sayd Chamberlaine, or whether they were carried hee<br />
knoweth not, for that hee went not with them, but saith that Henry Turpin<br />
the Masters Mate and some other of the shipps company went alonge<br />
with them, And further hee cannot depose/
To the 3 hee saith that hee well knoweth that the arlate Viber in the sayd<br />
shipps outward voyage was a while boatswaine of her, and was soe<br />
made by the arlate John Tottey, and as boatswaine tooke charge<br />
of such goods as were delivered on board the sayd shipp, And saith that<br />
while the sayd shipp lay in the downes, the sayd Viber and one Abraham<br />
doo[?er]en] his mate did in the night tyme loose the shipps boate from<br />
her sterne and goe away therewith, and this deponent seeing them doe<br />
soe, suspected that they had imbezelled some goods and called out to the<br />
shipps Company and told them that Viber and his mate were running<br />
away with the shipps boate, whereupon this deponent and some others<br />
of the shipps company made after them with an other boate which<br />
was at the sterne and after a league and a halfes rowing<br />
or somewhat more, came up to them and tooke them as prisoners, and<br />
this deponent and some others of the company that persued them went<br />
into Vibers boate, and brought him<br />
and his Mate back therein to the sayd Shipp and left some of the shipps<br />
Company to come back in the other boate, which men tooke up<br />
some taffaty hoods floateing upon the streame, which (as<br />
the sayd Viber afterwards confessed) hee and his mate had throwne over board<br />
whente had throwne over board<br />
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