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that her not getting into harbour was not … that her not getting into harbour was not occasioned by any disobedience of<br />
the sayd Gosling Maundry or any other of the sayd shipps Company And further<br />
saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot answere/
the 8th hee saith hee did heare the sayd damerell give Command to the effect Interrogate not only<br />
to the sayd Gosling and Maundry but to all the rest of the sayd shipps company, and<br />
knoweth that notwithstanding the wordes predeposed of they did all yeild obedience<br />
to the sayd damerells Command, and this deponent did (after the sayd Command<br />
given) helpe to launche the shallopps and loosen the shipp from the Ice and<br />
from the other shipps whereto shee was fastned and helpe to make way through<br />
the Ice for her about fower or five myle and untill such tyme as the sayd damerell<br />
Commanded to make her fast to the Ice againe, and knoweth that the sayd<br />
Gosling and Maundry and the rest of the sayd shipps company did every of<br />
them according to their ability helpe and assiste to worke the sayd shipp into<br />
the Ice toward shoare according to the sayd damerells Command, And further<br />
saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot answere
To the 9th hee cannot answere/
To the 10th hee saith hee knoweth of noe Counsell called by the<br />
Interrogate Gosling and Maundry and therefore cannot answere to this Interrogatorie./
To the 11th hee saith the ''Owners Adventure'' and ''Greyhound'' after they parted from<br />
the other fower English shipps aforesayd, did worke into the Ice toward<br />
the harbour or shoare in Greeneland fower or five myles, and were then<br />
about eight or tenn leagues from shoare in this deponents Judgment,<br />
and hee verily beleeveth and is perswaded in his conscience that by reason<br />
of the thicknesse of the Ice towards shoare it was farr more difficult and<br />
hazardous to worke to shoare then to worke out the sea againe, neither<br />
in deede was there in this deponents Judgment any hopes or possibility<br />
of workeing her to shoare or harbour by reason of the thicknesse of the<br />
Ice towards shoare, And further hee cannot answere/
To the 12th hee saith hee cannot answere heareing noe perswasions or<br />
diswasions used to the effect Interrogate, by the sayd Gosling Maundry or<br />
any other of the sayd shipps Company./
To the 13th hee saith that hee knoweth that one reason<br />
of the sayd damerells Keepeing company with fflemish shipps was<br />
to have their Company to duckes Cove Interrogate, for that hee<br />
imployed this deponent (being skilled in the dutch tongue) to speake to them<br />
and treate with them about goeing thither, they being desyrous to goe<br />
thither if they could, (by reason they could not gett into harbour in Greeneland)<br />
but not dareing to goe in thither without leave of the English to whome the<br />
fishing of that place belonged, to which place the Ice not affordeing a<br />
convenient passage neither the sayd dutch nor the sayd damerell could attayne<br />
And hee this deponent verily beleeveth and is perswaded in his conscience<br />
that they sayd damerell did doe his best endeavour to have made a good voyage<br />
of the voyage in question if hee could have done the same And soe did all the rest<br />
of the companye of the ''Owners Adventure'' as hee in like manner beleeveth<br />
and is perswaded And further hee cannot answere/ perswaded And further hee cannot answere/ +
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