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ffebruary the 29th. 1655. CENTRE HEADING Napthalia White John Thomas and} others Marriners of the shipp the} ''Delight'' of Plymouth against} John Gridden master of the shipp.} Cheeke ffrancklyn} Examined upon an Allegation on the behalfe of the sayd Gridden. '''Rp. 1''' '''Thomas Serjeant''' of Millbrooke in the county of Cornwall Boatswayne of the sayd shipp the ''Delight'' aged five and thirty years or thereabouts, a witnesse produced sworne and examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet . To the first article of the sayd allegation This deponent saith that about December 1654 the arlate shipp the Delight was set out upon a trading voyage by Nicholas Opie and Stephen Trevill arlate on a trading voyage from ffalmouth under the conduct of the sayd John Gridden who hired this deponent to go XX as Boatswayne in her to Barcelona within the Streights and so to Majorca and then home agayne to ffalmouth; and afterwards the sayd Gridden declared that the sayd Opie and Trevill owners and imployers of the sayd shipp had altered the voyage and that the sayd shipp was to go to the West=Indies. And otherwise not knowing what order the sayd Gridden was to follow in his such voyage, hee cannot depose. To the second article he saith the sayd shipp sett sayle from ffalmouth upon the 29th day of December on her sayd voyage. And further (knowing nothing what orders the sayd Gridden had from her Owners, or that he acquainted the persons arlate or any of his Company therewith he this deponent ćannot depose. To the 3rd and 4th articles of the sayd allegation he saith that the sayd shipp and this deponent as Boatswayn of her arrived safely att the Barbadoes (having in her passage touched att the Streights) on or about the third day of June 1655; Soone after which her Arrivall the arlate Scántlebury and Browne factors there for the Owners came on board her, and in the presence of this deponent and others of the sayd shipps Company did dećlare that they had order from their Principalls to loade the sayd shipp with sugar ginger Tobaććo and other goods of that place, and that as some were to be sent in the said shipp to Genoa within the Streights. or to that purpose. And further or otherwise not knowing what passed betwixt The Producent and sayd ffactors, not having seene the letter arlate he cannot depose. To the 5th article he saith that the sayd ffactors upon the sayd shipps arrivall had sugars Tobaććoes and other goods ready provided # to lade in her And they sayd in this deponents presence that the same was to be ćarryed to Genoa by the Order of therir Principalls the Owners of the sayd shipp above mentioned and otherwise hee cannot depose. To the 5th article he saith he heard the sayd factors say that they would dispatch the sayd shipp away in case the Mariners would sayle in her to Genoa. And otherwise hee ćannot depose not having seene as he saith any goods by lading whereof the sayd dispatch might have bene made. Thomas [TC MARKE] Serjeant his marke SIGNATURE To the 6th and sixth 7th articles of the sayd allegation This deponent saith that about the tyme arlate the foresayd factors ćame on board the sayd shipp in Carlisle bay, and thereupon the sayd Gridden called all his Company (who were in all about one and twenty persons) into the great Cabbin, and all of them (Joseph Hobbes arlate excepted) did thereupon attend him, who told them that he had order from his sayd Owners to take in goods of the quality aforesayd, and to transport the same to Genoa (which the sayd factors then affirmed to be true) and that he thought fitt to {X} make this order knowne to them, for that they ought and must goe with him to Genoa with the sayd shipp and goods or to that effect. And thereupon this deponent and about eleven persons more belonging to the sayd shipp did consent to and expresse their readines to goe the sayd voyage; And others of the Company, to wit the allegat Napthali White John Thomas William Martyn, Edward Harris, Richard Germans (Joseph Bartlett Arthur Sowden and Thomas Mitchell did refuse to goe that sayd voyage to Genoa saying they were not hired for any such voyage, and therefore would not goe, or to that purpose, And otherwise (not knowing that any mutiny thereupon happened other than the sayd refusall) he saith he ćannot depose. To
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