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impossible for any shipp to gett into harb … impossible for any shipp to gett into harbour in Greeneland<br />
that yeare, and that they were confident that noe shipp could get<br />
in to harbour there that yeare, or words to that effect by which meanes<br />
the Company of the ''Owners Adventure'' and ''Greyhound'' were soe<br />
discouraged that they did not attempt to worke in toward shoare<br />
though the Master often desyred them soe to doe, And saith that while<br />
the sayd Damerell was at sea after he lost the Company of the<br />
sayd ffower London shipps, he mett with some fflemings at sea<br />
and went on board of one of them, and stayed there some smale<br />
And saith the Company of the ''Owners Adventure'' and ''Greyhound''<br />
by reason they kept at sea and did not gett to harbour suffer much<br />
hardshipp, and some of them fell sick of the scurvie for want<br />
of refreshment on shoare, but saith the same was not (in his<br />
this deponents judgement) occasioned by any default of the said<br />
damerell, but by the the default of the sayd Mates, and by the<br />
unwillingnesse to endeavour to gaine shoare, and discouraging<br />
the Company by their speeches aforesayd, And further saving his<br />
foregoeing deposition he cannot answer otherwise then negatively<br />
for that hee well observed that the sayd damerell was<br />
very desyrous to have gained harbour after his comming<br />
out of the Ice as aforesayd but was allwaies hindered by the<br />
backwardness of his mates thereto and their speeches whereby<br />
they discouraged the sayd shipps Company And which in his this<br />
deponents judgement was the only cause which the sayd voyage<br />
proved soe insuccessfull as it did./
To the last hee saith saving his foregoeing deposition to the 6th<br />
article of the libell hee cannot more fully [answere GUTTER]<br />
this Interrogatorrie./
Edward Ashmore [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
Repeated the 13th of January<br />
before Doctor Godolphin
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The 14th of January 1656/
Examined upon the sayd libell./
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'''Maurice ffoard''' of Shadwell in the parish of Stepney<br />
and County of Middlesex Brewer aged thirty yeares or<br />
thereabouts a wittness sworne and examined<br />
saith and deposeth as following videlicet<br />
To the first, second and third articles of the sayd libell hee saith that the arlate Batson<br />
Beane and Golderne in the moneths and tyme arlate were Commonly accounted and<br />
reputed the ffreighters and imployers of the ''Owners Adventure'' and the<br />
Ownersers Adventure'' and the<br />
Owners +
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