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To the second Interrogatorie hee saith hee … To the second Interrogatorie hee saith hee cometh to bee a wittnes in this cause at<br />
the request of Mr Batson one of the producents who well knew that this<br />
deponent was Chirugion in the ''Owners Adventure'' the voyage in<br />
question and therefore could not bee ignorant of divers passages during<br />
the same and saith hee did since his comming home subscribe his name<br />
to a noate which was ready prepared by the sayd Batson and which the<br />
sayd Batson at his howse did tender to this deponent and desyre him to<br />
sett his hand thereto but the contents of the sayd noate or where the sayd<br />
noate is hee knoweth not and saith hee hath not receaved his wages<br />
due for the voyage in question but hath receaved of the sayd Batson<br />
fifty five shillings in money which hee paid this hee this respondent<br />
received in part of satisfaction of his medicaments by him this rendent<br />
provided at his owne charge to furnish his Chirugions chest for the<br />
voyage in question, but the sayd Batson when hee paid the same, did<br />
not declare that it was for that, or any other cause, but sayd hee did<br />
the sayd voyage, but that the sayd Batson gave him that 55s only<br />
out of his love or to that effect and saith hee is promised nothing<br />
but expecteth to receive his wages of the sayd Batson his wages due<br />
for the sayd voyage after the rate of fifty five shillings a month And<br />
further cannot answere/
To the 3 Interrogatorie hee saith hee not being a sea man and having never<br />
gone a voyage to Greeneland before the voyage in question knoweth<br />
not whether it were Bell Point that the ''Owners Adventure'' came<br />
neere to at her first comming upon the Coast of Greeneland, nor how<br />
neere shee came thereto, nor tooke any notice of the rest of the<br />
matters Interrogate, And further hee cannot answere/
To the 4th Interrogatorie hee saith hee cannot depose knowing nothing nor haveing<br />
heard anything touching any such order or instructions as is Interrate<br />
either in writing or otherwise, saving as is predeposed hee heard the sayd<br />
Gosling sayd when damerell and hee were quarrelling togeather about<br />
goeing further into the ice with the ''Owners Adventure'' and ''Greyhound'' than<br />
the other ships in their Company did, that hee had as much power<br />
and Command of shipp (meaning the ''Owners Adventure'') committed<br />
to him by the Marchants her Imployers for the ordering of the voyage<br />
in question as the sayd damerell had, or to that effect, And further<br />
hee cannot answere./
To the 5th hee saith that hee knoweth that the sayd damerell with the<br />
shipps the ''Owners Adventure'' did keepe Company with the shipps of<br />
Golding Welch and Pybus (all English shipps) for severall dayes in<br />
the moneth of June last and then they all put into the Ice togeather /but upon<br />
what day of June hee remembreth not) and wrought in some leagues<br />
but how many hee knoweth not, nor remembreth how longe they were in soe<br />
workeing in, And saith the ''Owners Adventure'' and ''Greyhound'' and the sayd Welch<br />
and Goldings shipps fastned to the Ice togeather and soe laye for some tyme<br />
butand soe laye for some tyme<br />
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