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To the 6th hee saithhee knoweth of noe mut … To the 6th hee saithhee knoweth of noe mutinie or disobedience<br />
of the Company of the ''Edward and John'' nor of any refusall made by<br />
any of them to worke touching the unladeing the sayd shipp other<br />
then what hee hath predeposed of, and saith this deponent and sixe or eight<br />
more of the Company did worke Constantly upon unladeing the<br />
sayd shipp when lighters came and that they were required soe to doe And<br />
further saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot answere<br />
otherwise then negatively for his part, not using himselfe, any manner<br />
of violence or threates to any persons hyred to helpe to unlade<br />
the sayd shipp, nor knowing or hearing any violence or threats<br />
used towards them by any other of the sayd shipps company./
REpeated before Colonel Cock/
Carinelli[?u]s simmenson [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The same day [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined upon the sayd allegation/
'''Rp. 4'''
'''Jaspar Williams''' of Ratcliff in the parish of Stepney<br />
and County of Middlesex Carpenter of<br />
the shipp the ''Edward and John'' aged forty seaven yeares<br />
or thereabouts a wittnesse sworne and examined saith and<br />
deposeth as followeth videlicet./
To the first article of the sayd allegation hee saith that hee was carpenter<br />
of the ''Edward and John'' the whole voyage in question, and hee and all the<br />
Company of the sayd shipp entered into whole pay for their service<br />
on board her on the second of June 1655 and continued in her service<br />
till the two and twentith of July 1656 during which tyme they did<br />
their duty as mariners aboard her, and as the sayd Totty commanded<br />
saving what is hereafter in this deponents deposition declared which<br />
upon the reasons hereafter declared they did forbeare to doe, And further<br />
hee cannot depose./
To the 2 hee saith that the arlate Totty had twenty sixe horses and gueldings<br />
and two mares shipped aboard the sayd shipp to bee transported to the<br />
Barbadoes for Accompt of severall Owners whereof the arlate<br />
Chamberlaine was one, two of which dyed at Sea by the way and the rest<br />
arrived there in safety, and after their arrivall the severall Owners<br />
came to demand them, and they were by the order of the Master sent from<br />
on board as they were demanded and carried on shoare but how disposed<br />
of hee knoweth not for that hee went not with any of them on shoare<br />
And saith that after all the sayd horses or gueldings and mares were delivered<br />
on shoare save fower horses or gueldings and one mare; the arlate<br />
Chamberlaine came on board the sayd shipp and desyred that<br />
his horses might bee sent on shoare that evening, and this<br />
deponent sawe all the sayd fower forses or gueldings and one<br />
Mare (which were all of them on shipp board and whereof the horse in question was one) heaved into a boate and<br />
carried on shoare but how they were after disposed of hee cannot of his<br />
certayne of hee cannot of his<br />
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