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ábout the sixteenth or seventeenth day of … ábout the sixteenth or seventeenth day of September last the said Cooper<br />
absented himselfe from the shipp and service, without and contrary<br />
to the masters consent and likeing, and kept himselfe continually from<br />
that time absent and not retourning any more to the said shipp, but<br />
having sent for his clothes and necessaries, and gunn the key of his chest to one<br />
Roger [?Warenn] and of the said company, as the said [?Warenn] acknowledged,<br />
The premisses touching the said Coopers absenting himselfe and deserting<br />
wholly deserting his service in the said shipp (whereof hee was<br />
Carpenters mate) this deponent knoweth, because hee was Purser<br />
of her and went all the voyage in her and was then present at<br />
Lisbone and tooke notice of the said desertion, and absence of<br />
the said Cooper whom this deponent often sought after his<br />
first absenting himselfe but could never finde it him, nor hath<br />
ever seen him since to this houre.
To the Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first Interrogatorie he answereth that the wages of the said<br />
Cooper (who was Carpenters mate) is 48 ''s'' per moneth according<br />
to the entry thereof in this deponents booke by the masters order,<br />
and saith hee served about eighteene monethes in the said<br />
shipp and was only carpenters mate, to the very time of<br />
his deserting the shipp as aforesaid though there were noe other carpenter but hee and saith hee entred into<br />
pay the in the moneth of ffebruary 1654 about the beginning of<br />
the same moneth, and deserted as aforesaid, and otherwise hee<br />
referreth himselfe to his foregoeing deposition.
To the second hee saith hee knoweth noe occasion at all<br />
given by the master or others for the said Coopers deserting<br />
the said shipp and service, but this deponent hath heard that<br />
hee was intangled or in league with a wench on shoare at<br />
Lisbone, concerning whom hee was by one there challenged that<br />
hee had promised her mariage, and saith the said shipp<br />
''Tyger'' was then attending convoy in the Bay of [?XXXXes] to<br />
come home for England; and saith that the said Cooper was hired<br />
as all the rest were to proceed from dover for Genoa, and there<br />
upon the ships designes and progresse till her retourne to<br />
England.
Warren Huggesen [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
Repeated before doctor Godolphin./.SIDE]
Repeated before doctor Godolphin./. +
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