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and the rest of the ''Owners Adventure'' i … and the rest of the ''Owners Adventure'' in regard the sayd shipp was<br />
then gotten soe neere Bell Point, did expect that the sayd damerell<br />
would rather have come againe on board his owne shipp the ''Owners Adven=''<br />
''ture'' and caused her to nee made fast to the Ice there, which if hee<br />
had done, hee might in all probability have gotten with her safe into<br />
Bell Sound, hee having then (in the Judgment of this deponent and in the<br />
Judgment of divers others of the ''Owners Adventure'' (as hee heard them<br />
alsoe saye) the most probable and fittest oportunity of getting into<br />
harbour that presented it selfe during the sayd voyage And further<br />
to this article hee cannot depose./
To the 4th 5th and 6th articles of the sayd allegation hee saith (for that hee kept a<br />
noate or memoriall in writing of the tyme of the shipp ''Owners Adven=''<br />
''ture'' upon the Coast of Greeneland and of the tymes of her passage<br />
up and downe to severall places there) hee knoweth that<br />
after the sayd damerell came from on board the sayd Pybus his shipp hee<br />
kept company with the sayd Pybus his shipp and the shipps whereof Mr Golding<br />
Welch and Child were masters, all shipps belonging to this Port of<br />
London, till about the fifteenth day of<br />
the sayd moneth of June last, and upon that fifteenth day of<br />
the sayd damerell with his shipp the ''Owners Adventure'' (and the ''Greyhound''<br />
a Pinke belonging to her and alsoe under the Command of the sayd damerell<br />
and the sayd Pybus Golding Welch and Child their shipps, began to worke<br />
into the Ice togeather, and the Ice being very thick, they in about fower and<br />
twenty howers space with hard labour gott about seaven leagues into<br />
the Ice, and then all the sayd shipps (their companyes being tyred and the<br />
Ice soe thicke that they could not well gett any further) made fast to the Ice<br />
And the ''Owners Adventure'' and ''Greyhound'' and the sayd Welch and<br />
Goldings shipps lying board and board one of an other, lashed fast<br />
one of an other, and soe laye about tenn howers, in which tyme<br />
the sayd damerell went on board the shipps of the sayd Goulding and<br />
Welch, but what discourse there happened betwixt the sayd damerell and<br />
them aboard their shipps hee knoweth not, but saith that upon the seaventeenth<br />
day of the sayd Moneth of June the sayd damerell standing on board<br />
the sayd Gouldings shipp, called to his Company of the ''Owners''<br />
''Adventure'' and (in a bravado as hee this deponent beleeveth and<br />
to expresse that hee would adventure further then any other shipps would)<br />
bidd them and the ''Greyhounds'' Company loose their shipps and<br />
strive to worke in further, and soone after hee came on board the<br />
''Owners Adventure'', and renued his Commands, and commanded<br />
the Company to make ready their shallops to worke<br />
further in, And the Companyes of the ''Owners Adventure'' and<br />
''Greyhound'' beginning to loose the shipps and gett their shallopps<br />
off of the Ice in order to obey the sayd damerells commands, the<br />
sayd damerell from on board the ''Owners Adventure'' called to the<br />
saydAdventure'' called to the<br />
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