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To the 3 hee saith hee beleeveth that when … To the 3 hee saith hee beleeveth that when goods are laden and stowed on<br />
board a shipp, both botswaines, Mates, and the whole shipps company<br />
ought to have a care of them, And further hee cannot answere/
To the 4th saving his foregoing deposition hee answereth negatively
To the 5th hee saith hee was not present at the tryall interrogate<br />
but hath heard that the Interrogate henry Turpin was there, And<br />
further hee cannot answere./
To the last hee saith hee for his part offered noe violence nor gave any<br />
threatning speeches to any of those that Captaine Totty hired to labour<br />
about delivery of the sayd shipps ladeing, nor knoweth of any<br />
other of the shipps company that did, And further saving his fore<br />
goeing deposition hee cannot answere./
Jespar Williams [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The same day
Examined upon the sayd allegation./
'''Rp. 5us'''
'''John Adams''' of Ratcliff in the parish of stepney<br />
and county of Middlesex Gunner of the ''Edward and John''<br />
aged twenty fower yeares or thereabouts a wittnesse<br />
sworne and examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet/
To the first hee saith hee being Gunner of the ''Edward and John'' the voyage<br />
in question knoweth that hee and all her company that voyage entered<br />
into the whole pay the second day of June 1655 and continued<br />
in service on board her till the two and twentith day of July<br />
1656 during which tyme did their duty as Mariners on board her<br />
and according as they were Commanded by Captaine Totty their Master<br />
saving what is hereafter declared which for the resons hereafter<br />
declared they did forbeare to doe And further hee cannot depose./
To the second article hee saith that hee knoweth that there were twenty sixe<br />
horses and gueldings and two mares shipped on board the sayd shipp<br />
the ''Edward and John'' to be transported to the Barbados by the sayd Captaine<br />
Totty for the Accompt of severall persons whereof the arlate Chamber=<br />
laine was one, of which horses or gueldeings two dyed at sea And<br />
all the rest of them and the sayd two mares arrived safe at the Barbados<br />
and after their arrival there their severall owners demanded them and<br />
as they came to demande them they were hoysted out of the shipp<br />
into the boate to bee carried on shoare and after most of the sayd<br />
horses or gueldings had bin demanded and delivered the arlate Chamber=<br />
laine came one afternoone on board the sayd shipp and desyred<br />
the Captaine that his horses might bee sent on shoare that night<br />
and hee saith that accordingly fower horses or gueldings (whereof<br />
the horse in question was one) were hoysted out of the shipp into<br />
the boate to bee carried on shoare and Turpin the Masters mate and one John<br />
huntMasters mate and one John<br />
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