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HCA 13/124



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Orders of the ship the Mayflower

To view a copy of the orders of the ship the Mayflower (its disciplinary code) see:
HCA 24/110: Item: 235: Case: Hickman against Jackett. These orders are dated July 5th 1647.



HCA 13/124: Personal answers of Captain William Jacket, master of the Mayflower


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Tertio decembris 1650

Repetit coram docto[XX]
Clerk [?Jud] uno etcetera

The personal Answers of Captaine
William Jackett made to the [?perused]
positions of a perused Libell given
and admitted against himm on the
behalfe of humfry hickman
as followeth videlicet

To the first hee answereth that hee
beleeveth the same to bee true/

To the second hee answereth that hee
referreth himselfe to his former Answer[?s]
to the Allegation given in this Court
on the behalfe of the said hickman
which hee beleeveth to bee true And
otherwise hee doeth not beleeve the said
position to bee true in any parte thereof

To the 3: 4: 5: 6: 7: 8: 9: 10: 11: 12: and 13th
hee answereth and beleeveth That



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dureing all the voyadge libellate the
arlate humfry hickman did carry and
demeane himselfe very uncivilly [?XXXX]=
[?XXXly] and debauchedly very much
addicting himselfe to sweareing curseing
and blasphemeing and alsoe to fighteing
and quarrelling and rayseing many
differences and debates and much conyten=
tion in the severall Shippes wherein this
Rendent went out and did dureing the sayd
voyadge most deperately strike one of
the negroes in the shipp the Mayflower
soe that hee presently fell downe and dyed
with the blowe given him by the said hick=
man and did very dangerously wound
another of the negroes soe that hee very
hardly escaped and did after most
deperately strike att and much endanger
severall of the Company of the said shipps
and amongest others did desperately stabb
att Robert Slowe (sic) the Calker of
the shippe Mayflower with a penknife
whereby his life was much endangered
and if hee had not prevented the same with
his Arme and receaved the stabb therein
hee had in all probability wounded him to
the death and Complaint thereof being
made to this Rendent hee did command
his knives to bee taken from him and his
person to bee secured in the Bilboes intill
the morneing that the buisinies could bee
thoroughly examined and then in the
morneing this Rendent caused all the
Officers of the Shippe and rest of the
Companye to bee called together and



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upon examination it did cleerely appear
that the Boateswaine of the said shipp
calleing for helpe to take in some water
which was by the shipp side the said
Robert Slade (sic) the Calker running
to helpe him did with his cloathes touch or
stirr the platter in which the said hickman
was eateing (hee being at Supper) for
which the said hickman rose upp in a
great rage and drew his pen knife and
ranne and stabbed att the said Calker in
a most desperate manner whoe seeing
himselfe in great danger of his life
held upp his Arme and receaved the stabb
thereinto which otherwise had without
doubt beene in his Brest and had in all
probabillity killed him which fault soe
appeareing to this Rendent and Company
the whole Company cryed out to this re=
spondent that the said hickman might
bee severely punished for soe foule a [?XXXt]
that thereby not onely hee but others might
for the future bee deterred from committing
such dangerous and desperate Acts Whwere
upon the orders of the shipp which att
the beginning and dureing the whole
voyadge were and had been hung upp
in the steerage for all to see and take no
tice of and which all the Companye
were bound to have observed and kept
were ordered to bee publickly read in
which amongst other thinges was con=
tained That hee that should drawe a
knife in the shippe to seeeke to doe mischeife
to any man should have his hand nailed



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to the Mast with his owne knife and there
to stand till hee teare it out upon which
the whole Company required the
penalty of the said order, and there
upon this rendent called for the Chi=
rurgeon of the Shippe to advise with
him whether such a thinge might bee
donne without danger to the hand and
with his advise for the prevention of
murder and other the like misdemea=
ours this Rendent did cause the hand
of the said hickman to bee fastned to the
mast of the said shipp by thrustenige
the same knife wherewith the said hick=
man had stabbed the Caulker and en
dangered his life, through the skinne
of his hand betweene the Two middle
fingers according to the direction of the
Chirurgeon that it might doe him least
hurte and assoone as it was put through
the Skin as aforesaid this Rendent cau=
sed the said knife to bee presently pul-
led out againe in as short a time as a
man might tell forty and hee had very
little or noe hurt thereby but his said
hand was within 5 or 6 dayes and
is as perfectly well as the other and
otherwise hee doeth not beleeve the said
pretended positions or either of them
to bee true in any parte thereof saveing
that the putteing the knife through
as aforesaid did drawe blood out
of the same



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To the 14th and 15th hee answereth that
hee doeth not beleeve the same to bee
true in any parte Saveing his former
Answers and saveing that this Rendent
did once as hee remembreth strike
the said hickman with a small Ca[?ine]
for makeing a difference betweene
him and some of the men by his tel=
ling of lyes and untrueths./

To the 16th hee answereth That hee doeth
not beleeve the same to bee true in any
parte thereof

To the seaventeenth hee answereth that
hee beleeveth the same to bee true/

To the 18th and 19th hee answereth and
beleeveth that hee this Rendent did send
the vessell arlate to a Bay windward
of Santa domingo under the Command
of Mr hatton a merchant whoe was
factor upon the same with about Ten
english with him whereof the said hick=
man was one hee haveing soe behaved
himselfe in the Mayflower that all
the officers and Company were weary
of him and hee soe ashamed of himselfe
as this Rendent beleeveth that hee made
it his request to this Rendent that hee
might goe in the said vessell and this
Rendent beleeveth that the said place
where hee directed them to goe was out
of any Command of the Spaniard or
any of his fforts or Castles and hee gave
the said Mr hatton with whome hee



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entrusted the Command of the said vessell
and all the other that were with him spe=
ciall charge not to come within Command
but to send their papers to the President
of Santa domingo and to gett an order for
free Trade at Barsalonia and this
Rendent haveinge want of Englishmen
in the Mayflower where hee had neere
about three hundred negroes to looke to
hee could not spare more english but
gott some Spaniards to goe with them
to helpe to saile the said vessell and to
negotiate for them onshoare about theire
buisuines which with boyes in all might
bee about Tenne as hee beleeveth and
not above most of which were cheifly
to rowe the Boats ashoare that soe
the Shipps might bee kept out of Com=
mand in the possessiom of the english
as hee beleeveth but by the not observeing
the orders of this Rendent or what other
meanes hee knoweth not the said vessell
and goods were seized upon betrayed
and lost and the said Mr hatton the
factor put in prison and there still detained as hee beleeveth
might as hee beleeveth bee sent to the consultation house in Spaine
whither the said hickman must alsoe
have beene sent if hee had beene a
prisoner as hee beleeveth but he hath
heard and doeth beleeve that the said
hickman brought home to England
divers goods and [?peaXXX] And
Therefore hee doeth not beleeve



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hee suffered hardshipp or imprisonment
as is arlate

To the 20: 21: and 22th hee answereth
that hee knoweth nothing thereof nor
doeth conceive hee is bound to answer
any thing thereunto/

To the 23th hee answereth that hee doeth
not beleeve the same to bee true

To the 24: 25: and 26th hee answereth
That hee referreth himselfe to the
Records of this Courte And otherwise
saveing his former Answers which
hee beleeveth to bee true hee doeth not
beleeve the said perused positions to bee
true in any parte

Will Jackett [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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Repetit coram
docto{XX] Clerk [?JudXX] uno et cetera

dicto die

Rensa personalia William Jackett [?for]
al[?ui] apud Acta et exhibito in eadem
[?mXXtion] at als con eum ex parte [?hXX]
fridi hickman 4o. Novembris: 1650
dat et exhibit sequuntur/

To the said Allegation and exhibit therein men=
tioned hee answereth and beleeveth that
the booke in the said Act mentioned was and
is the booke of this Rendent and the
name of the said hickman and the summe
of 24 s written thereunto was written
with the proper hand writeinge of him
this rendent as hee beleeveth but this
Rendent doeth not beleeve that hee did hire
or agree with him the said hickman for



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the said summe of 24 s or ever undertake
or promise to pay him the said summe but
beleeveth taht hee was hired by Captaine
Andrewes one of the setters forth of the
Shipp arlate whoe telling this Rendent
that hee should have or that hee promised
24 s per moneth hee did accordingly write
his name and the said summe downe in
his booke And hee beleeveth the identity
of the persons alleadged./

Will Jackett [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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HCA 13/69 no fol. Deposition of Clement East Barber Chirurgeons mate one the Mayflower


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The seventh day of Aprill. 1654

On the behalfe of Captaine Richard}
Crandley touching the Mayflower)

Examined upon the sayd allegation

(3.

Clement East of the parish of Saint Olaves in Southwarke
Barber Chirurgeon, late mate on board the said shipp the Mayflower
aged 30 yeares or thereabouts a witnes sworne and
examined deposeth and saith as followeth videlicet.

[?Bud] Cox dt.
To the first article of the sayd allegation This deponent saith that in the yeares
1647: and 1648. and monethes therein respectively the arlate Samuel
Vassall Richard Crandley Beniamin Crandley and Company all Englishmen
were lawfull Owners and Proprietors of the arlate shipp the Mayflower
whereof William Jacket was Commander, and of the Pinke the Peter and
of their tackle and furniture respectively, and for and as such commonly
accounted which he knoweth for that he was Chyrugeons mate
on board the said shipp Mayflower within the tyme aforesaid. And further
cannot depose.

To the 2d article of the sayd allegation This deponent saith that on or about the
16th day of June 1647 the foresayd shipp the Mayflower being fitted
out to sea by her sayd Owners upon a trading voyage sett sayle from
Gravesend under the Command of Captaine Jacket aforesayd who tooke
the Charge thereof which voyage was designed for Guinny and
so to the Barbadoes and other places beyond the seas, and the sayd Pinke
went along and attended the Mayflower upon the sayd voyage of the
knowledge of this deponent Chirurgeons mate of the Mayflower as aforesayd
And otherwise he cannot depose.

To the 3d article of the sayd allegation This deponent saith that the foresayd shipp
the Mayflower and Pinke in pursueance of the sayd trading designe
arrived safely att Guinny in the sayd same 1647. when and
where out of the proceed of severall mercahndizes there sold that
had bene brought out of England, the arlate Captaine William
Jacket bought provided and putt in board the sayd shipp and pinke
about four hundred Negroes and a quantity of Elephants
teeth which were in the sayd shipp and pinke brought safely
to the Barbadoes where they arrived toward the latter end of
the sayd yeare 1647. which he deposeth for the reasons aforesayd.
And otherwise cannot depose.

To the 4th article of the sayd allegation This deponent saith That soone after
the arrivall of the Mayflower and Pinke Peter att the Barbadoes and
whilest they remayned there, a Certaine Spanish shipp one Don
lus de [?Chaves] Commander, arrived there also having on board her
about one hundred Negroes, but saith that the sayd shipp of the sayd
Don Chaves was so defective that he durst not adventure in her
againe to sea but left the same att the Barbadoes, of all which
this deponent was an eye witnes. And further cannot depose.

To the 5th article of the sayd allegation This deponent saith that upon occasion
of his shipps defectivenes the arlate Don Luis de Chaves who as he sayd
had a Commission for transport of Negroes to the West Indies in any foreign
bottom belonging to the freinds of the King of Spaine, which Comission
he did averr to be good and to be firmed, or authorised by his Majestie of
Spaine, did enter in to Treaty with the sayd Captaine Jacket for the
transport of his sayd hundred Negroes to the West Indies in the
vessells Mayflower and pink, which he deposeth for the reasons aforesayd. And



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To the sixth article of the sayd allegation This deponent saith that the arlate
William Jacket having perused the sayd don Luis his
Commission or License and beleiving the same to be good, and in confidence
thereof, did about the beginning of the yeare 1648 English stile
agree and Contract with the sayd don Luis de Chaves to carry his sayd
Negroes to the West Indies together with those which the sayd Captaine
Jacket brought from Guinney. And that for the securring of the
sayd Captaine Jacket and his Interest of his English Owners It wasa
mutually agreed betweene the sayd Captaine Jacket and Fon Luis de
Chavez that all the sayd Negroes aswell those brought by Captaine Jacket
from Guinny as the rest of the sayd Don Chaves should passe
under the foresayd License or Commission in consideration of a certayne
freight agreed upon, which this deponent came to knowe and take
notice of for the reasons aforesayd, and otherwise cannot depose.

To the seaventh article of the sayd allegation This deponent saith that in
persuance of the foresayd Agreement , the sayd William Jackett
did receyve the sayd Don Chavez his Negroes amongest his owne on board
his sayd vessells the Mayflower and Pinke, and undertooke to
transport them to the West Indies together with the sayd don Luis de
Chavez himselfe who embarqued himselfe together with some of his Company in the Mayflower, and
saith that the sayd vessells and Negroes, arrived in safety about
the moneth of May 1648. att New Barcellona in the sayd Indies, where
the arlate Don del Campe was Governour by authority of the
King of Spaine, the premisses he deposeth being an eyewitnes
thereof sayling along mate of the Mayflower as aforesayd.
And otherwise he cannot depose.

To the 8th article of the sayd allegation This deponent saith that the foresayd don Luis
de Chavez upon the arivall of the sayd vessells att New Barcellona
did present his license aforesayd before the Governour there who with his
Officers did allow the same for good and the sayd don Luis having
soe desired releife and food for the sayd negroes the sayd Governour and Officers declared that for the
importance of his Majestyes service they would accomodate him with
all conveniencies and accordingly did send downe severall
oxen and severall Cargoes of Cassava for the succour and
releife of the sayd negroes. The premisses he saw, and well
observed as Chirurgeons mate of the Mayflower. And otherwise
he cannot depose.

To the niobnth article of the sayd allegation This deponent saith that thereupon the
foresayd Governour of New Barcellona caused the sayd Pinke the
Peter to be sent to Santa Domingo with the foresayd License of the
sayd Don Luis to the intent as was pretended that the Governour
of that place (being the Cheife place for Administration of
Justice in those parts) might allso peruse and approve them
and give his allowance thereunto. And saith that not long
after, albeit the sayd Pinke returned not, the foresayd Governour
of New Barcellona did send word and declared to the sayd Captaine
Jacket, that the Governour of Santa Domingo and other the Officers of
the King of Spaine there had allowed the foresayd License as [?XXX GUTTER]
and had sent to him notice thereof, and that there fore the sais
Captaine Jacket might land and bring to shore all his Negroes, And
further cannot depose.



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