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company were thus acteing the sayd Gosling … company were thus acteing the sayd Gosling and the master continued<br />
at difference each with other, the sayd Gosling declaring that hee was<br />
unwilling to leave the Company of the other shipps, for that as hee<br />
beleeved it would prove a very inconvenient thing soe to doe whereupon<br />
very evill language on both sides did and for not other cause, very evill<br />
and reproachfull language was given each to other by the sayd<br />
damerell and Gosling upon the open deck of the Owners Adventure,<br />
in presence and hearing of this deponent and divers others of the Owners<br />
Adventures Company, and alsoe in the presence and hearing of the sayd<br />
Golding and Welches Companyes who lyeing board and board stood still<br />
and heard and sawe all the passages thereof, which words were thus,<br />
the sayd damerell called the sayd Gosling roague and knave<br />
and sayd hee looked upon him but as one of his Cabbin boyes,<br />
And the sayd Gosling called the sayd damerell Knave and<br />
Rogue and other the like opprobrious wordes, in soe much that this<br />
deponent well knoweth not which of the gave the worst or<br />
uncivillest language one to another: not withstanding which wordes<br />
which soe passed betweene them hee saith the sayd Gosling did<br />
presently after yeild obedience to the sayd damerells Command<br />
and did helpe to worke the sayd shipp in with as much fervencie<br />
as any other of the sayd shipps Company and the sayd shippes Company did faithfully performe<br />
their duty therein afterwards and wrought thereabout for the space of sixteene<br />
howers videlicet from that tyme on the seaventeenth of June last when they<br />
left the company of the other fower shipps untill the 18th of the same<br />
and in that tyme wrought her about fower myles from the other<br />
shipps further into the Ice, where hee the say shee was by Command<br />
of the sayd damerell made fast to the Ice, And the sayd Gosling after<br />
the speaking of the words predeposed of never gainesayd the sayd Master<br />
in any of his Commands or acted anything in preiudice of the sayd<br />
voyage, the premisses hee deposeth being an eye and eare wittnes of<br />
them, And hee further saith the sayd shipp ''Owners Adventure'' being soe<br />
made fast after shee left the company of the other shipps the sayd<br />
damerell was in suspense with him selfe what hee should doe whether hee should worke in further or not and<br />
thereupon voluntarily sayd that if the other fower shipps (whose company<br />
hee had left) wrought in after him, hee would worke in further, for<br />
hee was now soe farr ahead of them, and that if they wrought out<br />
to sea hee would doe soe alsoe, and bidd some of his Company<br />
goe up into the shroudes to discover which way the heads of the sayd shipps<br />
stood and whether they followed him or not, and some of them goeing<br />
up and having taken a view telling him that their heads were to sea<br />
ward and that they did not followe him, hee the sayd damerell<br />
to assertaine him selfe of the truth thereof went up him selfe into<br />
the shrowdes and haveing taken a view sayd I thinke they doe<br />
worke out to sea, therefore cast our shipps about (meaning the Owners<br />
Adventure and Greyhound) and worke out to sea, which the Company didnd worke out to sea, which the Company did +
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