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Owners freighters and imployers of the ''G … Owners freighters and imployers of the ''Greyhound'' arlate and did<br />
fitt and furnish both the sayd shipps with all things necessarie for<br />
the voyage in question which was a fishing voyage to bee made from<br />
this Port of London to any Port or Place in Greeneland where they could<br />
most conveniently, gett to and which the master and Commander in cheife<br />
should think most convenient and for the advance of the sayd voyage, and<br />
soe back for London And saith the arlate Damerell did goe Master<br />
and Commander of the ''Owners Adventure'' and alsoe had the Command<br />
of the Master and Company of the ''Greyhound'' and direction and ordering of<br />
her and her company as well as of the Owners Adventure and her Company<br />
Committed to him for the sayd voyage, which Command (as he beleeveth)<br />
was soe committed to him by the sayd Batson Beane and Golderne, And<br />
the sayd damerell did as Master of the ''Owners Adventure'' hyre this dept<br />
to goe a Copper man for boyling of the whales taken the sayd voyage<br />
And saith the arlate Gosling and Mandry did goe masters mates.<br />
of the ''Owners Adventure'' and the arlate Humfreys as a harponeere<br />
and one of her company for the sayd voyage, and take upon upon them the sayd<br />
places, and were (as he beleeveth) to bee obedient to the Command of<br />
the sayd Damerell, And the sayd shipp being soe provided with all<br />
things necessarie, the sayd Damerell Maundrie Gosling Humfreys<br />
this depondent and the rest of their companyes sett sayle toward Greeneland<br />
upon the sayd ffishing imployment and safely arrived neere the<br />
coast of Greeneland, and further to these articles hee cannot depose.
To the 4th and 5th articles of the sayd libell hee saith that<br />
the sayd shipps ''Owners Adventure'' and ''Greyhound'' after they had a<br />
while and endeavoured to gett some whales at sea upon a place called the West<br />
Ice, seeing they were prevented of taking them after they had struck<br />
them, by the whales running under the Ice and towing the boates soe<br />
that they were in danger to be drawne under the Ice and perish with their<br />
Companyes, did foresake the West Ice, and came to the Coast of Greeneland,<br />
and there happened in Company with fower London shipps whereof Mr<br />
Pybus Mr Golding Mr Welch and Mr Child were Masters, and<br />
Consorted or kept Company with them and the sayd fower shipps and<br />
the ''Owners Adventure'' and ''Greyhound'' did in the moneth of June last all<br />
worke into the Ice toward shoare, together, and after they had all wrought in<br />
about eight or tenn leagues, the sayd shipps ''Owners Adventure'' and<br />
''Greyhound'' and the sayd Golding, Welch and Childs shipps made<br />
all fast to one piece of Ice, and laye board one board and of an other<br />
and the sayd Pybus his shipp made fast to another piece of Ice a little,<br />
distance off, and saith they there laye fast divers<br />
howers videlicet about forty eight howers as hee remembreth, in which<br />
tyme the sayd damerell went aboard Gouldings shipp, and after<br />
hee had stayed there some tyme came there aboard the ''Owners''<br />
''Adventure''d the ''Owners''<br />
''Adventure'' +
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