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''Adventure'' and called the Boatswaine an … ''Adventure'' and called the Boatswaine and Commanded him to<br />
call up the shipps Companye and gett ready their boates to<br />
worke the shipps ''Owners Adventure'' and ''Greyhound'' further into the<br />
Ice toward the shoare, and the Boatswaine telling him that the Company<br />
was at dinner, the sayd Damerell sayd, then lett them<br />
prepare their boates soe soone as dinner is done, and dinner being<br />
done the master againe renewed his command and Commanded<br />
the sayd shipps Company to make ready their boates to worke the<br />
sayd shipp further towards shoare, and this deponent did and the sayd<br />
Gosling and the rest of the sayd shipps Company might<br />
very well heare such his command, And the sayd Goslling there upon<br />
came up upon deck and asked the sayd Damerell what hee meant<br />
to doe, whereto the sayd Damerell answered and sayd to worke the<br />
shipp further in toward shoare what thinke yow were came hether for<br />
thereupon the sayd Gosling said answered and sayd wee will goe noe further<br />
then the rest of the shipps in Company (meaning the sayd Golding Pybus<br />
Welch and Child their shipps) doe goe, and thereupon the sayd Damerell<br />
sayd if they will staye here and endeavour to goe noe further what is<br />
that to us, wee will goe further and endeavour to gett harbour, and therefore<br />
I command you (speaking to the sayd Gosling) and alsoe to the rest of the<br />
Company of the said shipp ''Owners Adventure'' to loose the shipps and<br />
make ready the boates and worke further in and lett mee see who dares disobey my Command or words to that effect whereto the sayd Gosling<br />
replyed and sayd wee will goe noe further than the other shipps goe<br />
and I will not the sayd Damerell being displeased with the sayd<br />
Gosling for such his denyall to obey his command did call the sayd<br />
Gosling pimpeing roague, and told him he was a pimpeing roague<br />
to disobey his Command, and that he should answere it, and<br />
hee would make him knowe that he the sayd Damerell was his<br />
Commander, whereto the sayd Gosling replyed and sayd that the<br />
sayd Damerell was a pimpeing roague and might goe a pimpeing<br />
and begg his bread when he came home if hee did not make a voyage<br />
and that hee scorned to bee Commended by such a foole and<br />
pimpeing roague as he (meaning the sayd Damerell) was, and<br />
these or the like words passed betwixt the sayd Gosling and<br />
Damerell upon the open deck of the ''Owners Adventure'' in the presence<br />
and hearing of this deponent and his precentests Edmond Reynolds, Thomas<br />
Chauntrell and Edward Ashmore, and alsoe Richard Parker.<br />
Boatswaine and divers others of the Company of the ''Owners Ad=''<br />
''venture'' and also in presence of divers of the Companyes of the ''Greyhound''<br />
and the sayd Golding Welch and Childs shipps who lyeing all board and<br />
board could not choose but heare and see the passages betwixt the sayd<br />
Gosling and Damerell, which notwithstanding the sayd Damerell<br />
continueing his command to have the sayd shipps ''Owners Adventure'' and ''Greyhound'' wrought further<br />
toward shoare ˹this deponent˺ and divers of their Company of both shipps did make<br />
ready their boates, and did worke the said shipps ''Owners Adventure''<br />
and ''Greyhound'' about sixe or seaven myles further toward shoare<br />
than the other fower shipps were, and the sayd Gosling seeing the rest of<br />
the Company did yield obedience and helpe to worke further in did<br />
heepe to worke further in did<br />
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