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the Boatswaine (after this deponent soe sa … the Boatswaine (after this deponent soe sawe his name subscribed to the<br />
sayd noate) sayd in presence of this deponent and of one Thomas Wells and<br />
one William Nicholls, that the sayd Batson was a Knave, and that hee<br />
had drawne him in when hee the sayd Parker was in drinke to subscribe<br />
the sayd noate, the contents whereof (as hee sayd) hee neither could nor<br />
would maintayne And further to this article hee cannot depose./<br />
To the last hee saith his foregoing deposition is true and further hee<br />
cannot depose/
To the Interrogatories/ [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first hee saith, hee cometh to testifie in this cause by vertue of<br />
a Compulsorie or Warrant served upon him by Mr Browne the deputy [GUTTER]<br />
Marshall of this Court on behalfe of the producents to that effect, and hath<br />
receaved nothing nor is promised anything for his testimony and saith hee<br />
was brought before Mr Suckley the producents proctor and did declare<br />
to him what hee could testifie in this cause, but what use the sayd Suckley<br />
made thereof hee knoweth not, And further cannot answere otherwise<br />
than negatively/
To the 2 hee saith hee knoweth the parties plaintiffs and defendants and favoureth<br />
all alike in this cause and desyreth right may prevaile therein And<br />
to the rest of the Interrogatorie hee answereth negatively./
To the 3 hee saith hee did arrest Batson upon an action entered in the<br />
Poultry Counter for his wages due to the voyage in question which<br />
Action hee lett fall and doth intende after hee seeth the dXXXX of the<br />
suite to sue him and Beane and Golderne for the same in this Court if they pay it not in<br />
the meane tyme, And saith hee was the Carpenter of the ''Owners Adventure''
To the 4th hee saith saving his foregoing deposition to the 4th 5th 6th<br />
7th and 8th articles of the allegation wherein hee hath at large and soe farr as hee can satisfied the<br />
contents of this Interrogatorie hee cannot answere, saving hee saith that<br />
hee well knoweth that both hee and all the rest of the Company of the<br />
''Owners Adventure'' notwithstanding the sayd Gosling and Maundrys<br />
words predeposed of did in all things yeild obedience to the Command<br />
of the sayd damerell during the whole voyage in question./
To the 5th hee saith, hee hath bin two voyages at Greenland before<br />
the voyage in question and all three voyages in service of Batson Beane<br />
and Golderne, and saith his first voyage was in the ''Richard'' (one Mr Peryman<br />
Master) which shipp went to Bell Sound to first where shee safely arrived<br />
and the second voyage was in The ''Gentleman of London'' (the foresayd damerell<br />
Master) which shipp went to the foreland point, and to Smiths Bay<br />
Crosse Road, Port Nock, and ducks Cove and anchored safely in<br />
all those harbours or places, and the last voyage being the voyage in question,<br />
in the ''Owners Adventure'' (the sayd damerell Master) in which as is predeposed<br />
shee gott not at all to harbour, And saith that the sayd first voyage<br />
there was little or noe Ice upon the Coast, in soe much that a smale<br />
wherrie might safely have passed into harbour, And that the<br />
sayd second voyage there was smale store of Ice in soe much that<br />
in this deponents Judgement there was not by a thousand parts soe much<br />
Ice as was the voyage in question, And that the voyage in<br />
question was there was soe great store of Ice that in the judgement<br />
of the sayd damerell himselfe and all the masters of the other shipps<br />
inmasters of the other shipps<br />
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