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stayed there with the sayd horses and mare … stayed there with the sayd horses and mare till about eleven or twelve<br />
a clock at night, and noe body then coming, they all went away and left<br />
the sayd fower horses and one more there tyed, and returned all to their<br />
boate which they had left an other of the shipps company to looke to<br />
while they went with the horses, and soe they all returned on board<br />
the sayd Shipp according to Command, And further to this article<br />
hee cannot depose./
To the 3 hee saith hee knoweth that in the sayd Shipps outward<br />
bound voyage the arlate Viber was for a while Boatswaine<br />
of her by appointment and order of the arlate Captaine Tottey and<br />
as boatswaine did take charge of all goods laden aboard the sayd<br />
shipp, And saith that in the downes of the sayd Viber and his Mate<br />
Abraham deverin having imbezelled (as it after appeared) divers<br />
goods from on board the sayd shipp did loose the shipps boate from<br />
her sterne and ranne away therewith, which being discovered by<br />
this deponents Contest John Watson hee presently gave notice thereof to<br />
the rest of the shipps company where upon the sayd Watson and this<br />
deponent and henry Turpin and others of the shipps company to the number<br />
(in all) of about fowerteene or fifteene rowed after them in the<br />
shipps longboate, and before they could get to shoare over tooke<br />
them, and the sayd Watson and some others went into the boate which<br />
Viber and his mate had taken and seized upon them, and rowed them back<br />
to the sayd shipp, and left this deponent and some others to come after<br />
with the longe boate, And hee saith that as this deponent and others<br />
were coming back with the longe boate they espied something floate<br />
upon the water and thought it had bin some Capp or hatt belonging to<br />
some of the Company and made neerer to it, and<br />
the foresayd John hunt one of the Company tooke it up, and being<br />
taken up, it proved to bee a browne paper wherein were about<br />
a dozen or fowerteene taffat hoodes for women wrapped up, which<br />
the sayd Viber or his Mate (as the sayd Viber after confessed)<br />
threw overboard when they sawe them selves soe closely persued and<br />
the sayd Tottie being made acquainted therewith put the sayd<br />
Viber by his Boatswaines place, but continued him still in the shipp<br />
as a quarter Master till the shipps arrivall in the Barbados, where<br />
hee suffered him to goe away without presenting the lawe against<br />
him for the goods imbezelled and found wanting, and without any<br />
satisfaction made for them that this deponenet ever heard or knew<br />
of, And beleeveth that what other goods are imbezelled and missing were<br />
imbezelled by the sayd Viber and his Mate, And further hee cannot<br />
depose/
To the 4th hee saith hee was imployed at London about the shipps<br />
busines with the shipps longboate when the servants arlate made<br />
an escape and heard not the arlate Totty make any such promises<br />
arlate and therefore cannot depose to this article nor knoweth whether<br />
the shipps Company men chargeable with them or not./ Company men chargeable with them or not./ +
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