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the foresaid refractorie mariners refused … the foresaid refractorie mariners refused to doe any duty, but kept<br />
the shipp by the space of a moneth or more and as longe as there were<br />
any provisions or victualls in her, and then deserted her and with<br />
drew their service and refused to bring her home, which hee knoweth<br />
being one of her company, and seeing the premisses soe donne.
To the eighth hee saith that the said Thomas Towers and all the<br />
rest of the fore said refractorie mariners, and indeed all the mariners<br />
of the said vessell saving this deponent and the said Paramour left<br />
and deserted her and otherwise disposed of them selves in other<br />
shipps and otherwise, and in particular the said Thomas shipped<br />
himselfe in a shipp of which one mr Greenleaf was master<br />
bound for Venice, and soe did his boy, and further that none of<br />
the mariners that went from England in the service of the said shipp<br />
came home in her only this deponent and the said Paramour<br />
which hee knoweth as aforesaid.
To the Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first negatively.
To the second hee saith hee did not know the said Thomas<br />
Towers before his embarquement here and coming to Gravesend<br />
nor was present at his hiring, and saith the said Thomas<br />
was boatswaine of the said shipp, and had a boy that was his<br />
servant or under him, and the said Thomas went in her the<br />
said voyage with his said servant from Gravesend and<br />
untill such her comming to the Barbadas, and such his<br />
deserting her there as aforesaid, And that the said shipp delivered<br />
her Negro's at the Barbada's in or about december 1655 as<br />
hee remembreth the time. And otherwise cannot answer saving as aforesaid
To the third hee saith hee was in her at Cormantine and was<br />
a foremast man in her. And saith the said Towers (as this<br />
deponent guesseth) is of 50 yeeres or betwixt 40 and 50<br />
yeeres of age, and was a lustie tall man of a brownish haire, and<br />
saith hee abetted and complied with the rest of the said mutineers<br />
in the said mutiny [XXXXXXX] money to [XXXXXXX] about the busines at the Barbada's and saith hee heard the master give order<br />
to the said Paramour to raw the bond predeposed, and afterwards<br />
saw him deliver a paper to William ffrost the Gunner, and<br />
say theres the obligation for your being paid at the<br />
Barbadas, and otherwise hee cannot answer saving as aforesaid.
To the fourth hee cannot answer.
To the 5th hee saith there was noe supracargo in the said shipp but Mr Barton<br />
who was at the Barbadas did upon the shipps arivall there<br />
act for the merchants concerned in the Negroe's.
To the 6th 7 and 8th hee saith the said Mr Barton made the<br />
said offer and exhorted them as aforesaid at the Barbada's, and that<br />
the said Towers served alonge the voyage in the said shipp till such<br />
her coming to the Barbades, but refused to come with her for England<br />
And otherwise referreth him selfe to his foregoeing deposition
To the Interrogatories in the second place hee saith hee this deponent hath<br />
bin paid his wages here since his arivall by Mr Barton, Mr Wells and<br />
the other merchants, comming to 33 ''li'' sterling for 17 monethes
Repeated before doctor Godolphin.
the marke of<br />
Tanica [MARKE OF AN ANCHOR ON ITS SIDE] Sevinian [MARKE, RH SIDE]HOR ON ITS SIDE] Sevinian [MARKE, RH SIDE] +
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