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to secure his shipp, and by that meanes accidentally ran her aground about a myle or somewhat lesse from Shoare, And further to those articles hee cannot depose/ To the 4th, 5th 6th 7th and 8th articles hee saith that the sayd shipp being soe runne on ground the sayd Captaine Browne commanded his whole Company to keepe aboard the ''hercules'' and oly their gunnes and defend her soe longe as possible they could, and declared that when hee could defend her noe longer hee would either fyer her of bore holes in her and sinke her and then make to shoare in the shipps boates but the arlate Peter S[XX]thing Robert Evereard Martin Coxeman Paule Bayly Thomas Bumpstead Thomas [?Werner] John Price Mathew Kilman Samuell Maior John Rowland Richard Andrews John Barker Jeremy head Thomas Abs, John M[XX?fer] Robert Catlin William Wilson Edward Throgood and William Stokes and others of the sayd shipps Company whose names hee remembreth not, in all to the number of betwixt forty and fifty men not valueing or regarding the sayd Captaines Commands deserted the sayd shipp and the defence of her and betooke themselves to the long boate to goe on shoare therein which the sayd Captaine seeing spake to them in presence and hearing of this deponent and his Contests John Bishopp John ffitzharper and others of the shipps Company and desyred them with his Capp in hand to come aboard againe and helpe to defend the shipp and sayd when shee could bee noe longer defended hee would then sinke her or burne her and soe goe with them ashoare in the longe boate and the other shipp boates or to theat effect but the persons aforesayd and all that were soe gott into the long boate regarded not either his Commands or entreaties but utterly deserted the sayd shipp and went away with the long boate keaving the Captaine and this deponent and his contests Mathew Sherley John Bishopp John fitzharbert and many others of the sayd shipps Company aboard the sayd shipp by which meanes the sayd Captaine and those left with him aboard (being more by three or fower then the two smale boates belonging to the shipp could beare ashoare) were deprived of the benefitt of their designe to fyre or sinke the sayd shipp because thereby those who happened to bee left aboard must necessarily perish and therefore the Captaine and they were [XXXX GUTTER] alsoe to deserte the sayd shipp leaving the arlate Peter Thomas and one Cpply and one or two more aboard because the two boates left being but small ones would not hold them And soe the shipp and her gunnes tackle furniture and provisions be made a prey to the dutch, who seized her and gott her off from ground and carried her away with the men left in her to the great iniury and wronge of the State
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