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that some of the Company should goe up int … that some of the Company should goe up into the shrowdes to see which<br />
way the heads of the sayd fower shipps laye whether to sea wards or not<br />
where upon this deponent and others went up some to one part of the shrowdes and some to an other<br />
and damerell being told by this deponent that they stood to seaward the sayd damerell came up into<br />
the mayne shrowdes to this deponent to take view what the sayd<br />
other fower shipps did and having viewed, sayd, in hearing of this<br />
deponent and one Humfreys and one Covell who were all upon the shrowdes,<br />
that hee sawe now, the sayd other shipps were goeing out to sea, and<br />
thereupon the sayd damerell after hee came downe out of the shrowdes<br />
gave command to the Company of the sayd shipp ''Owners Adventure''<br />
to turne her about and worke out to sea, which they did, And<br />
further to these articles hee cannot depose, saving hee saith that<br />
nothing spoken or done by the<br />
sayd Maundrie or Gosling either then or at any tyme after during<br />
the voyage in question was as hee beleeveth any hinderance that the<br />
sayd shipp did not then or at any tyme after gett into Port but<br />
it was the extremity of the thicknesse of the Ice and the windes blowing<br />
off from shoare that hindered the sayd shipp then from getting into<br />
harbour And saving hee saith, hee heard the sayd damerell after<br />
the sayd shipp was gott out of the Ice to sea, saye openly upon the deck<br />
before this deponent and divers others of the shipps Company that hee<br />
was gladd shee was out againe (meaning out of the Ice/
To the 9th hee saith hee was never at Greeneland before the voyage in<br />
question nor knew the arlate Golding Welch Pibus and Child before then, but<br />
beleeveth they are experienced sea men in the Greeneland ffishing, and saith<br />
hee knoweth that the sayd Pybus hhis shipp by goeing noe further then shee<br />
did into the ice (which was about fower myles lesse then the ''Owners Adventure'' and<br />
''Greyhound'' went in) did in XXXXX XXXXXX out againe breake a hole in her bowe, and was in much danger<br />
of sinkeing if shee had not bin helped by the Company of the ''Owners Adventure''<br />
and the other shipps to stopp her leake and cleere her of water which shee had<br />
receaved this hee knoweth for that after the ''Owners Adventure'' and ''Greyhound''<br />
were gott out of the Ice to sea they found her in that dangereous condition and<br />
helped her to stopp her leake and cleere her of warter as aforesayd, And saith<br />
that when the ''Owners Adventure'' turned back to goe to sea shee was a good<br />
way from shoare (but how many leagues hee knoweth not) nor how Bell<br />
Point then bore, and that in his this deponents Judgment (by reason of the thicknesse<br />
of the Ice towards shoare neare then towards sea) it was farr greater danger<br />
for her to have put in further towards shoare then to put out to sea againe<br />
And hee this deponent did account it a great deliverance that the ''Owners<br />
Adventure'' and her Company went soe farr into the Ice as they did and gott out<br />
againe soe safe as shee did And further to this article hee cannot depose/
To the 10th hee saith that the ''Owners Adventure'' and ''Greyhound'' being<br />
gott out to sea did for some few dayes space keepe company at sea with<br />
the shipps of the sayd Pybus Welch Goulding and Child and then foggie<br />
weather ariseing lost the Company of the sayd ffower shipps and,<br />
having lost them did afterwards keepe company with some fflemish<br />
shipps and goe on board of them, and saith that by reason of the sayd damerell<br />
his not getting to harboure divers of the Company for want of<br />
refreshment on shoare had the scurvie, but hee this deponent heard<br />
not any body use any perswasions to the sayd damerell to make forrswasions to the sayd damerell to make for +
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