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And further saith that after hee had order … And further saith that after hee had order to bringe the said shipp the<br />
''Prophet Elias'' to London (with the rest taken in her company) his<br />
this deponents said Captaine sent the three men of the ''Elias'' her<br />
company that were aboard the frigot, aboard the said shipp the<br />
''Prophet Elias'', expectivng that this deponent and company should<br />
have had their help to bring up the said shipp, but after their comming<br />
aboard, they looked upon the same to see howe the winde was, which<br />
was then at Nore-Nore-West, after they had soe seene howe<br />
the winde was, the Jew was confederating with<br />
them which way to run away with the shipp, [?soe] the men declaring<br />
to the Jew that the three Jewes who were in the cabbin, should<br />
destroy this deponent in the night in the greate cabbin and cutt<br />
cables in the hawse, and they would doe well enough to make away<br />
with the rest of the company and soe run away with the shipp, it<br />
being a fitting night for such an oportunitie, there being a fresh<br />
gale, and darke, and said, what neede they care to doe it,<br />
seeing the shipp went wondrous well; whereupon one of this<br />
deponents company, having the lingua as perfect as themselves<br />
and over heard what they said, came presently and called this<br />
deponent unto the forecastle, and declared their designe unto<br />
him, and thereupon the prize master of dover comming by<br />
in the downes in the Captaines Skiffe to goe ashore, this deponent<br />
and all the rest of his company aboard the said shipp the ''Prophet''<br />
''Elias'' called out to him to come aboard, which the three dutch men<br />
that soe were come from aboard the frigot hearing, one of<br />
them ran downe betweene decks and hidd himselfe in a drie fatt,<br />
And that after the said prize master came aboard, this deponent and<br />
company all sesired him to take the thre dutch men that came<br />
from aboard the frigot, the Jew and the Stiersman and carry them<br />
with him ashore, for that they had confederated to run away with<br />
the shipp that night; whereupon the prize master calling for<br />
them all to come into the boate, the Jew was very backward<br />
in comming, but after hee was in, and they missing the man that<br />
was run downe betwixt decks, and searched the shipp<br />
for him, and were almost halfe an houre before they could find<br />
him, and finding him in the drie fatt, they pulled him out by the<br />
heeles, and afterwards it was as much as three of them could doe<br />
to get him over the wast into the boate, and from that time<br />
there was peace and quietnesse in the shipp, but the prize master<br />
of dover, being sear full, sent some souldiers aboard, and two<br />
sea men with a pilot, for securitie of carrying up the shipp, because<br />
of the said disturbance that had before happened
Thomas [?Alderman] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
Repeated before doctors Clarke and Godolphin.eated before doctors Clarke and Godolphin. +
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