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To the 2 hee saith hee came to bee a wittn … To the 2 hee saith hee came to bee a wittnes in this cause being soe<br />
required by Mr Batson, who well knew that this deponent was one of<br />
the Company of the ''Owners Adventure'' the voyage in question and therefore<br />
could not but knowe all or at least many passages touching the voyage in<br />
question, and saith hee did not subscribe any such noate as is Interrogated<br />
nor knoweth ought of any such noate or where it is and hath not receaved<br />
his wages for the voyage in question save hee receaved a tickett for a moneths pay before hee went<br />
out upon the voyage from Gravesend, as the rest of the Company<br />
alsoe did, which moneths pay this respondents wife receaved (as hee beleeveth)<br />
Mr Batson and hee expecteth to receave the rest thereof and saith hee is promised nothing for his testimony<br />
nor expecteth any thing therefore./
To the 3 Interrogatorie hee saith that the ''Owners Adventure'' and ''Greyhound''<br />
were about the beginning of June 1656 in Company of the Interrate<br />
Pybus his shipp, and were then in this deponents Judgment about sixe<br />
leagues and better off of Bell Point, the harbour then bearing North East, and that<br />
the sayd damerell did then command his Company of the ''Owners Adventure''<br />
to worke in toward harbour, whereto the sayd Gosling answered and sayd<br />
openly upon the deck in presence and hearing of this deponent and others of<br />
the ''Owners Adventures'' Company, if Pybus worke in wee will worke<br />
in alsoe, if not what should wee goe for, whereupon the sayd damerell<br />
answered and sayd well I will go on board of Pybus and see whether hee<br />
will put in or noe, and soe accordingly went and there remayned about<br />
an hower and a halfe, and then came againe on board his owne shipp ''Owners''<br />
''Adventure'' and sayd that Pybus was not willing to worke further into<br />
the Ice whereupon the sayd Pybus his shipp makeing out towards sea<br />
the sayd damerell (on board his owne shipp ''Owners Adventure'') did sayle<br />
after him along by the edge of the Ice for divers leagues to see whether<br />
they could meete with any glace or opening which would give them<br />
better opportunity to gett into harbour, but finding none kept Company<br />
togeather till they afterwards mett with the shipps of Golding Welch and<br />
Child, and then they all sixe putt agiane into the Ice in Company in<br />
manner predeposed, and were in this deponents Judgment at least a league<br />
neerer shoare than then when the sayd damerell went on board the sayd Pybus<br />
his shipp as aforesayd, and in greater probability to gett to shoare, the<br />
Ice being in this deponents Judgment more glacy there toward shoare<br />
than it was where damerell went on board of the sayd Pybus his ship<br />
And further saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot answere/
To the 4th Interrogatorie hee cannot answere/
To the 5th Interrogatorie hee saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot answere<br />
saving hee saith that the sayd sixe shipps were about twenty fower<br />
howers or better a workeing that eight or tenn leagues<br />
into the Ice that they soe as aforesayd wrought in in Company togeather<br />
and saving hee saith the sayd Pybus Golding Welch and Childs<br />
shipps did worke out to sea againe./
To the 6th, 7th, and 8th Interrogatories hee saith saving his foregoeing<br />
deposition hee cannot more fully answere to these Interrogatories/
To the 9th Interrogatorie hee saith hee this deponent never knew<br />
Pybus Welch Golding and Child before the voyage in question and therefore<br />
knoweth not their abilities touching the fishing trade of Greeneland or<br />
whatng trade of Greeneland or<br />
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