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in this deponents Judgment the sayd Maundr … in this deponents Judgment the sayd Maundrie Gosling<br />
humfreys and the rest of the harponeeres and their Crues<br />
by reason the whales motion was soe swifte and the sea soe growne<br />
did doe their true and utmost endeavour to have killed the<br />
sayd whale but were not able to effect the same And further<br />
to this article hee cannot depose/
To the 14th article of the sayd allegation hee saith that the arlate<br />
Reynolds the Cooper Thomas Canntrey his mate, Edward Ashmore<br />
[BLANK IN MANUSCRIPT] Kirton and Mawrice fforde were of this deponents knowledge persons<br />
to bee imployed on land about boyleing and doeing other worke about<br />
whales after they were taken, and hee this deponent verily beleeveth<br />
that none of them have any skill in sayleing or mannageing a shipp<br />
at sea or to know when it is fitt to carry her in or out of a<br />
harbour, And hee saith that since hee this deponent came home from<br />
the voyage in question hee this deponent and one William Swinford<br />
and John Bransby and one Thomas Everton (all Mariners of the<br />
Company of the Owners Adventure) were at the arlate Mr Batsons<br />
howse in Company with him and the arlate Mr<br />
Beane, and after some discourse had passed touching wages which they then demanded the sayd Batson caused his man<br />
George (who was then alsoe present) to reade unto this deponent and the<br />
rest of the sayd shipps company then present a noate ready written<br />
which (as hee sayd) Richard<br />
Parker the Boatswaine had subscribed, conteyning (as the same was<br />
read to this deponent) that the disobedience of the Company of the<br />
Owners Adventure to the Commands of the sayd damerell was<br />
the overthrowe of the voyage in question, or words to that effect,<br />
which noate the sayd Batson did desyre this deponent and the sayd<br />
Swinford Bransby and Everton to subscribe and to stand<br />
to his Custodie what hee would give them, which<br />
noate this deponent and the sayd Swinford Bransby and Everton did<br />
refuse to subscribe, whereupon the sayd Batson caused an other<br />
noate to be written by his sayd man George (but the contents thereof hee<br />
now remembreth not) to which noate this deponent and the sayd<br />
Swinford Bransby and Everton sett their hands and having soe<br />
done the sayd Batson gave this deponent and the sayd Swinford<br />
Bransby and Everton twenty shillings a peece as a free guift<br />
and not as any part of wages, which papers the sayd<br />
Batson as hee beleeveth hath in his custody And further to<br />
this article hee cannot depose
To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true./
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