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continueing his Command to have the sayd s … continueing his Command to have the sayd shipp wrought further into<br />
the Ice towards shoare the sayd Gosling Maundry and the rest of the<br />
Company of the ''Owners Adventure'' did launch out their boates and worke<br />
four or five myles or better further towards shoare then the other four shipps<br />
did and then by command of the sayd Damerell fastened to the Ice againe and lay still severall houres<br />
and then the Master comanding againe to worke her still further<br />
into the Ice towards shoare one Mr Orvell (sic) who was by the Owners<br />
of the ''Owners Adventure'' imployed to bee Overseer or husband<br />
of her in their behalfe did goe up into<br />
the mayne topp, and foretopp to see and disover how the Ice lay and<br />
what possiblity there was of getting to harbour, and came downe and<br />
declared openly upon the deck before this deponent and divers others the sayd shipps company that hee<br />
did discover that there were glaces or openings in the Ice toward<br />
shoare, and that hee did discover a cleerer sea beyond<br />
the Ice towards shoare and therefore did verily beleeve that if the Company<br />
would strive and endeavour soe to doe they might gett in to shoare<br />
and thereupon the sayd Master renewed his Command, and commanded<br />
the sayd Maundry Gosling and the rest of the Company of the owners<br />
Adventure to manne their shallopps and endeavour the working of<br />
the sayd shipp to shoare and some of the Company of the sayd shipp<br />
thereupon began to make ready the shallopps in order to obey the<br />
Masters command but the sayd Maundrie standing upon the<br />
fforecastle of the ''Owners Adventure'' and speaking to the sayd damerell sayd publiquily in the presence<br />
and hearing of this deponent and diverse others of the sayd shipps<br />
Company thus or the like in effect, By God, for my part I will not<br />
laye a hand to a roape to worke in and the divell take him for my<br />
part that layes a hand to a roape to worke in, I would I were<br />
on board of my brothers shipp (meaning the shipp whereof his<br />
brother John Manudrie was Master and which was then alsoe upon the coast of Greeneland<br />
upon a fishing designe) and or upon aboard of one of the fflemish<br />
shipps (meaning fflemish shipps then alsoe upon the sayd Coast) and<br />
then lett my wages be hanged I care not what becomes of that, by<br />
which words and the other words before spoken by the sayd Gosling and Maundry<br />
the sayd shipps Company were soe discouraged that they had noe mynde to worke<br />
any further in toward shoare (nor did worke in any further toward shoare whereupon the sayd damerell sayd well I see<br />
because you have not your brothers company and the Company of the<br />
other shipps you have noe mynde to worke in and to make a voyage without<br />
them, though I see or knowe noe reason why wee being two shipps (meaning<br />
alsoe the ''Greyhound'') may not worke in without them and make a good voyage<br />
but since you will not obey my Commands, and worke in lett the losse of<br />
the dammage light upon you (meaning the sayd Gosling and Maundrie) or the sayd<br />
damerell spake words to that effect, and soone after the sayd shipp ''Owners Adventures''<br />
Company began to worke out of the Ice againe to sea but by whose order hee knoweth<br />
not And further to these articles hee cannot depose./
To the 6th hee saith that after the shipps ''Owners Adventure'' and ''Greyhound'' were gott out<br />
to''Greyhound'' were gott out<br />
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