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hee verily beleeveth might the ''Owners Ad … hee verily beleeveth might the ''Owners Adventure'' and ''Grey hound''<br />
have done if the sayd Maundry and Gosling had not in manner<br />
predeposed, them selves disobeyed the sayd Damerells Commands, and<br />
by their words discouraged the rest of the Company of the ''Owners Adventure''<br />
from workeing the sayd shipp futher in towards harbour or shoare as the<br />
sayd Damerell commanded, And further to this article hee cannot depose/
To the 10th hee saith hee being Cooper as aforesayd of the ''Owners Adventure''<br />
knoweth that the ''Owners Adventure'' brought home all the finne and blubber which<br />
was gained both by her and the ''Greyhound'' the voyage in question, and saith<br />
that the sayd blubber being boyled after it came into the River of Thames<br />
neere Blackwell, there was eighteene tonne and a halfe of oyle made of the<br />
sayd Blubber which hee in his Judgment and estimate valueth<br />
to bee worth sixteene or eighteene pounds sterling a tonne, and beleeveth the<br />
sayd ffinnes (being as hee guesseth them about 14 or 15 hundred weight) are<br />
worth in this deponents Judgment twenty or thirty shillings of like money a hundred<br />
this hee knoweth for hee helped to hoope the vessells and to XXXX or to fill the oyle in them But what the sayd Batson Beane and Golderne layed out for victualing and<br />
fitting out the sayd two shipps or vessells hee cannot estimate And<br />
further hee cannot depose./
To the 11th hee saith saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot depose not<br />
knowing what to estimate the sayd Batsons Beanes and Goldernes dammage<br />
at for that hee knowth not what oyle or finnes might have bin made by the<br />
sayd voyage./
To the 12th hee saith hee referreth himselfe to the Registry of this Court<br />
and further cannot depose:/
To the 13th hee saith the arlate Gosling Maundry and humfrey are<br />
subiects of this Commonwealth and subiect to the Jurisdiction arlate as hee<br />
beleeveth And further hee cannot depose
To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true./
To the Interrogatories [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first hee saith saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot further answere thereto./
To the 2 hee saith hee cometh to bee a wittnes being soe required by Mr<br />
Batson who well knew that this deponent went Cooper of the ''Owners Adventure''<br />
and therefore being on board could not choose but bee able to testifie such passages<br />
as happened a shipp board and saith hee subscribed not to any noate or writing<br />
to Mr Batson or any other touching what hee could depose in this cause, and saith<br />
hee hath as yet receaved noe wages, but expecteth to receave of the producents his wages due for<br />
the voyage in question, for that hee being hyred only to goe as Cooper noe<br />
miscarriages touching sea affayres can bee imputed to him hee being to performe<br />
his office at Land after fish are taken, and having only care committed to him<br />
to put it safe into Casks either boyled or bloubered, And hee expecteth not<br />
nor is promised any thing for his testimony in this cause./
To the 3 Interrogatorie hee saith that hee kept noe Journall and therefore doth not cannot positively<br />
rem{em}ber the daye, but remembreth that the shipp ''Owners Adventure'' having<br />
bin for some tyme before at a place called Greene Land or the West Ice which is a placeeene Land or the West Ice which is a place +
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