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the tyme that the sayd shipp was soe in wo … the tyme that the sayd shipp was soe in workeing further into the Ice towards<br />
shoare then the other shipps whose company shee had lost, did take great paines<br />
to p?oye off Ice and worke about getting the sayd shipp further in, and did<br />
not in any manner disobey the Commands of the sayd damerell or<br />
refuse to worke, nor (soe farr as this deponent heard or observed) speake to<br />
or encourage any of the sayd shipps Company to disobey the sayd damerells<br />
Commands or to refuse to worke, And saith the sayd shipp being wrought<br />
in the sayd fower myles further or thereabouts, the company being much<br />
wearied therewith by reason of the thicknesse of the Ice, the sayd damerell<br />
commanded the sayd shipp to bee fastned to the Ice that the<br />
Company might rest and refresh them selves, and after they had continued<br />
soe fast about eight howers the sayd damerell came upon the<br />
deck and there openly before this deponent and divers others of the sayd<br />
shipps Company sayd to this effect, that if the other fower shipps whose<br />
company hee had lost did endeavour to worke in after him, then<br />
hee would strive to worke in further towards shoare, but if they wrought<br />
out to sea againe hee would worke out alsoe, and bidd some of the<br />
Company goe up into the shrowdes and see which way the heads of the sayd<br />
shipps stood whether they followed or stood to sea wards, and being told<br />
they stood to sea wards hee the sayd damerell went up into the shroudes<br />
him selfe, as alsoe did one mr Covell, and the sayd damerell having taken<br />
a view and coming downe againe sayd upon the open deck in presence of this<br />
deponent and others of the sayd shipps Company thus or to like in effect<br />
I see they are goeing out to sea, therefore turne our shipp and worke<br />
out after them, whereupon the Company accordingly did begin to worke<br />
her out towards sea, And then the arlate Maundrie sayd I am willing<br />
to helpe worke in, for I did see it was to noe other purpose but to<br />
satisfie the Masters humour, which was all the words this deponent<br />
heard the sayd Maundry saye to expresse any dislike of workeing in,<br />
And saith that soe farr as hee this deponent could or did observe<br />
nothing spoken or done by the sayd Gosling or Maundry were any<br />
cause of the sayd shipps not being then or at any tyme after put<br />
into Port but In this deponents Judgment the extreame thicknesse<br />
of the Ice towards shoare was the cause that hindered the sayd shipp<br />
from getting into harbour or shoare, it being in this deponents Judgment<br />
for the reason aforesayd, a thing impossible to gett her to shoare or harbour,<br />
And saith the sayd shipp was by the order of the sayd damerell wrought<br />
out to sea againe, and being come out, the sayd damerell standing<br />
upon the quarter deck sayd in presence and hearing of this deponent and<br />
others who were upon the deck thus or the like in effect,<br />
that hee was glad hee was out, and they would not bee soe farr in the Ice againe as hee was for<br />
five hundred pounds And further hee cannot depose/
To the 9th hee saith that hee this deponent hath gone severall voyages to<br />
Greeneland with in these tenn or eleven yeares last past and during that tyme<br />
hathpast and during that tyme<br />
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