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sayd hee could not tell what they were bes … sayd hee could not tell what they were best to doe, they might<br />
doe what they would, or words to that effect whereupon the sayd<br />
humfrey and Parker seeing noe hopes to kill the sayd whale and that<br />
their boates were almost halfe full of water did (the sayd humfrey<br />
first and the sayd Parker soone after) cutt their warpes and lett her<br />
goe And saith that hee well knoweth being one of the sayd Maundryes<br />
Company of his shallopp that hee the sayd Maundrie and the sayd Gosling and all the rest<br />
that pursued the sayd whale did their true endeavor to kill her but<br />
for the reasons aforesayd could not, and did not disobey the sayd<br />
Damerells command touching the sayd whale/
To the 14th article of the sayd allegation hee saith that the arlate<br />
Reynolds Chauntrie Ashmore Kirton and ffoard are land men and<br />
have noe skill in the sea affayres to knowe when it is fitt to carry a shipp in<br />
or out of harbour in such a voyage as Greenland is, which required a<br />
great deale of judgement and experience and that their busines was only<br />
to boyle and manage the ordering of the whales after they were kiled and<br />
cut up and brought on shoare to them, And hee alsoe saith that the sayd<br />
Batson and Beane did in the sayd Batsons house in London (since the voyage<br />
in question ended) tender unto this deponent a writing importing an<br />
acknowledgement that the sayd voyage was overthrowne by the Mates<br />
and Mariners of the ''Owners Adventure'' disobeying the Commands of the sayd damerell, which this<br />
and told this deponent that if hee would subscribe the same they would<br />
bee more civill to him than any of the rest of the sayd shipps company,<br />
expecting (as they sayd) that hee as well as Parker the Boatswaine (whose<br />
name this deponent then sawe subscribed thereto) would rather ayde them the<br />
sayd Batson and Beane therein (meaning in putting the default of the<br />
losse of the sayd voyage upon the sayd mates and mariners) then otherwise:<br />
whereto this deponent well knowing that the contents of the sayd writing<br />
were utterly false replyed and sayd, hee know the contents thereof to bee<br />
utterly false and that the sayd Batson and Beane had shipped him for that<br />
voyage as deemeing him an honest man, and rather than hee would<br />
to testifie a thing which hee know to bee false (as that was) hee would take<br />
a knife and cutt his own throate or words to that effect, but in whose<br />
hands and possession the sayd paper now remayned hee saith hee knoweth not<br />
And hee further saith that the arlate Maurice ffoard did once tell this<br />
deponent in the presence of his Contest John Colvile and at a second<br />
tyme in presence of this deponent and one Elizabeth Leverett<br />
and alsoe the producents Gosling and Maundrey sayd that the sayd Batson did<br />
tell him the sayd ffoard that if hee would sett his hand unto a noate that hee<br />
the sayd Batson would write or cause to bee written and appeare<br />
in Court and testifie the same writing upon oath, hee the sayd Batson would<br />
give him the sayd ffoard his wages, And the sayd ffoard afterwards<br />
(as by his speech appeared to this deponent) having appeared in Court<br />
to testifie on behalfe of the sayd Batson, sayd in presence of this deponent<br />
and the sayd Colvile that hee would have seene the sayd Batson<br />
hanged before hee would have come into Court to have sworne on his<br />
behalfe if the sayd Batson had not promised him his wages (meaning his<br />
wages for the voyage in question) And hee saith that the sayd Parker theon) And hee saith that the sayd Parker the +
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