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on board with Message being delivered from … on board with Message being delivered from the Master the<br />
sayd shipps Company proceeded in order thereto to fetch aboard<br />
and did fetch aboard one Anchor but lett the sayd ship ride by the other<br />
without heaving it a pick as the Master in this deponents presence gave order<br />
they should, and the sayd Master and Merchants and this deponent coming<br />
within a short tyme after on board, the Master was offended with the foresayd<br />
Nathaniell hutchinson that hee being his cheife mate had not caused<br />
the Anchor to bee heaved a pick according to order, and some angrie<br />
words passing betweene them the sayd hutchinson went downe betweene<br />
decks and refused to doe his duty and the Master commanding<br />
the Company to weight Anchor they refused to weigh anchor and<br />
sayd they would have fresh victualls and fresh bread<br />
first or to that effect, when<br />
as in deede there was of this deponents knowledge having the<br />
oversight thereof noe want of victualls or bread on board,<br />
the victualls then on board and which they fayned fault with not being aboard tenn or twelve dayes<br />
powdered although perhapps some b[?oany peece] thereof<br />
might bee a little tainted, yet not soe that it might well bee eaten,<br />
And hee saith that two of the peeces of beefe by them soe found fault<br />
with were by the Merchants eaten in the sayd shipps Cabin<br />
that night and noe fault found therewith by them, and the rest<br />
of the beefe which they found fault with was by this deponent given<br />
to certaine Greekes boatmen who were alsoe to attend the sayd<br />
shipp to the Morea, and fresh victualls provided for the sayd<br />
Companyes suppers where upon with much persuasions used<br />
by the Merchants and promises that they should have fresh bread when<br />
they came to the Morea they did at length weigh Anchor And hee<br />
alsoe saith that the sayd shipp being alsoe in the moneth of November<br />
1655 lying at Anchor at Zant the sayd Master Commanded the<br />
Company of her to weigh Anchor shee being then bound from<br />
thense to Argustoll in the Island of Zephania and the sayd Company<br />
or the greater part of them and especially the<br />
sayd dymock, Nock Godden Brooke denbie parties in this suite<br />
did refuse to way Anchor unlesse they mighte bee paid two<br />
or three moneths pay whereupon the Master perceiving their<br />
obstinacie and disobedience to the end that the sayd voyage to the<br />
Argustoll might not bee frustrated did cause this deponent to pay<br />
the sayd shipps Company two moneths pay or thereabouts which<br />
they gaving receaved they and not before weighed anchor, and hee<br />
saith that the plaintiffs in this cause were all active, and assisting<br />
in the refuseing to weigh<br />
Anchor the severall tymes aforesayd And further to this article<br />
hee cannot depose./
To the iith article hee saith that hee well knoweth for that hee<br />
tookeell knoweth for that hee<br />
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