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wyne and other strong liquor which they co … wyne and other strong liquor which they could come by on board, and have<br />
dranke in an excessiue manner thereof till they have bin highly distempered<br />
therewith and sometymes have gone on board at the Maderas and other places<br />
and layne ashore two or three dayes togeather neglecting their business on<br />
board And<br />
the sayd Whitfeild having bin one tyme on shoare at the Maderas<br />
and having made use of some harlott there, had his privie member burnt<br />
or otherwise infected and hee was in this deponents steward rooms severall tymes dressed for the<br />
same, by the Mr Edward hodges the Chirurgion of the sayd shipp and hee heard the sayd Whitfeild saye the sayd harlott came to bedd to him And<br />
these the debauched disorderly and disobedient carriages of the sayd<br />
Whitfeild and Edwards were publique and notorious and taken<br />
notice of by many of the sayd shipps company And further saving<br />
his subsequent deposition hee cannot depose/
To the 2 article of the sayd allogation hee saith that in the moneth<br />
of June 1655 arlate the shipp arlate being then at Saint Christophers<br />
and freighted for England and divers goods taken on board her and<br />
some of her freighters on board her in Company of the Captaine<br />
of the sayd shipp, the arlate Samuell Edwards being distempered<br />
with drinks fell a rayleing against the Captaine of the sayd<br />
shipp in presence of the sayd freighters and this deponent and divers<br />
others of the sayd shipps Company, and called the sayd Captaine<br />
(the arlate Lockier) knave, and roague, and Cheater, and banque<br />
rupt followe, and other opprobrious language, and alsoe them<br />
spake in disparagement of the ability of the sayd shipp the ''Negro''<br />
and sayd shipp shee was leakie and insufficient and not fitt to<br />
performe her voyage or words to that effect, and shortly after<br />
videlicet about a day or two after the sayd passages, the sayd Edwards<br />
ranne away, and carried away his Cloathes, and went on board an other shipp<br />
there lyeing called the ''Adventure'', and this deponent sawe the sayd<br />
Whifeild helping the sayd Edwards to convey his the<br />
sayd Edwards his cloathes and alsoe the Cloathes of the Boatswaine Thomas Morgan away and reproved him for the same<br />
and told him hee did not well in assissting the sayd Edwards in<br />
Conveying his cloathes from on board without acquainting the<br />
Captaine of the sayd shipp therewith whereto the sayd Whitfeild<br />
replyed to this deponent and sayd hee would not bee longe before<br />
hee went away him selfe or to that effect, And saith that by these<br />
and the like the evill speeches and carriages of the sayd Edwards some<br />
of the freighters who had taken freight in the sayd shipp ''Negro''<br />
refused to send their goods on board, and others who had putt goods<br />
on board her, did cause their goods to bee taken out of her againe, and lade<br />
them aboard others shipps, and divers of the Company of the sayd shipp<br />
''Negro'' (being induced soe to doe as hee beleeveth by the example of the<br />
sayd Edwards) did desert the sayd shipp ''Negro'' and came noe more<br />
on board her, by which the sayd Edwards evill carriage and speeches and by<br />
meanes of others their deserting the sayd shipp ''Negro'', the sayd shipp was<br />
deprived of her imployment by the say freighters, upon the voyage shee was<br />
the bound upon, and laye at Saintt Christophers from the sayd moneth of<br />
June one thousand sixe hundred fifty five till december following to the<br />
greatecember following to the<br />
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