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''Adventure'' that voyage And the sayd arl … ''Adventure'' that voyage And the sayd arlate damerell was and went Master<br />
of the sayd shipp that voyage and that the arlate Maundry and Gosling went<br />
his Mates the same voyage but by whome they were shipped Mates or what<br />
Command they had Committed to them more then what their places required<br />
hee knoweth not And further to this article hee cannot depose/
To the 2 hee cannot depose./
To the 3 hee saith hee goeing Carpenter of the Owners Adventure the voyage<br />
in question thereby knoweth that the sayd shipp upon or about the second day<br />
of June 1656 was by the arlate Maundry Gosling and the rest of her<br />
Company brought within three or fower leagues ˹of Bell Point˺ the Port then bearing<br />
North East of the sayd shipp, where, the sayd damerell went on board of<br />
the arlate John Pibus his shipp who was then in Company of the Owners<br />
Adventure, and that some after the sayd Pybus his shipp sett sayle with the<br />
sayd damerell aboard her off from the Port, and the sayd damerell called<br />
from on board the sayd Pybus his shipp to the Company of the Owners Adventure<br />
and commanded them to followe the sayd Pybus his shipp which they did for<br />
the space of about eight or tenn howers wherein they sayled about eight<br />
or tenn leagues, when and not before the sayd damerell came from aboard<br />
the sayd Pybus his shipp to the Owners Adventure, whereas hee this deponent<br />
expected and heard the sayd Gosling sayd that hee did hope the Master<br />
would have stayed there ˹when hee was soe neere Bell Point˺ and made the shipp fast to the Ice ˹there˺ And hee this deponent<br />
verily beleeveth and is perswaded that had hee soe done and not sayled away<br />
thence in the sayd Pybus his shipp as hee did, hee the sayd damerell might<br />
very well have gotten the Owners Adventure into Bell Sound or some<br />
other harbour thereaboutes, And saith that the sayd damerell missing<br />
that oportunitie did in this deponentes Judgment never gaine soe probable<br />
an oportunitie againe during the whole voyage in question And further<br />
to this article hee cannot depose./
To the 4th 5th 6th 7th and 8th articles of the sayd allegation ˹hee saith˺ that the sayd<br />
damerell after hee came from on board the sayd Pybus his shipp as<br />
aforesayd kept company with the sayd Pybus and three other London shipps<br />
whereof Richard Child William Welch and James Golding were Masters<br />
untill about the fifteenth of June last, on or about which day the sayd<br />
damerell with the Owners Adventure and Greyhound (a Pinke belonging<br />
to and attending on the Owners Adventure) did in company of the sayd other<br />
fower London shipps put into the Ice, and they all wrought togeather into<br />
the Ice about seaven or eight leagues toward shoare, and were in soe doeing<br />
about twenty howers, the Ice proveing thick and troublesome, and being<br />
gott soe farr, the Masters of all the sayd shipps seeing the ice ˹soe˺ thick and<br />
their Companys that they could not at present worke with any conve=<br />
niencie worke further in) did give Command to their Companies to<br />
make fast to the Ice, and thereupon the Owners Adventure and Greyhound and<br />
the sayd Welch and Goldings shipps made made fast all togeather board and<br />
board and soe lay for about sixteene howers videlicet till the seaventeenth<br />
dayicet till the seaventeenth<br />
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