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to be made therewith into the Archipelago … to be made therewith into the Archipelago to lade graine and to<br />
bring the same to Zant, as this deponent and the rest of the said shipps<br />
company were informed and made acquainted by the said factors after the<br />
affreightment made, which hee saith being an unfree voyage and of such<br />
a condition as thereby the company should be liable to perpetuall slavery<br />
under the Turkes (being taken by them) for attempting to fetch graine<br />
out of the Grand Signiors dominions (,contrary to his express prohibition<br />
and to carry the same into the Venetians territories, this deponent and<br />
all the company (saving the Captaine, the Purser and the Cooper<br />
unanim'ously withstood and refused to proceede on the sayd voyage,<br />
and would by noe meanes goe on the same, whereupon the Purser [?went GUTTER]<br />
ashoare and comming afterwards aboard, hee reported to this deponent and<br />
the rest of the said refusing companie, that the Provador said<br />
hee would make them goe, or els hee would shoote the shipp in peeces,<br />
upon which they haled three of the Gunns fore and aft, resolving to st[?and GUTTER]<br />
upon their defense, and not to goe that unfree voyage, upon which<br />
absolute refusall, hee saith the said voyage tooke noe effect, And<br />
otherwise hee canot answer saving that this deponent,<br />
John Godden, Beniamin Dimmock, William Barber, Robert M[XXXXX]t,<br />
John Gourden, Abraham Carr, Theadore Weekes, John Jackson,<br />
another John Godden, Nathaniel hutchinson, Thomas Richards,<br />
Robert Collier, henry ffoote, Richard Gallampton, William Tuff,<br />
Austin Petty, Thomas Dikes, henry Danby, ffrancis Williams,<br />
John Brookes, henry Richardson, Nicholas Millar, and William Ribbet<br />
(foure and twenty in number) were the persons that soe refused to goe<br />
the said voyage.
To the fourteenth hee saith that after the said second retourne from the<br />
Morea to Zant, and after the said disappointment of the said voyage<br />
into the Archipelagus, the said factors had let out the said shipp<br />
to freight to goe for Tunis, as this deponent was informed, who with<br />
the rest of the company were readie and willing to goe that voyage,<br />
but who was the freighter, or what the said shipp was to carry<br />
or what was the reason of the giving over the voyage, hee saith hee<br />
knoweth not, And otherwise hee cannot answer.
To the fifteenth hee saith that severall of the companie (some at<br />
one time and some at another) went and lay ashore, but who they<br />
were by name hee saith hee doth not nowe remember, And otherwise<br />
hee cannot answer.
To the 16th hee saith that as hee heard one John Jackson one<br />
of the said company, being on shore at Zant fell out with and hurled stones<br />
at and with fowle wordes reviled the foresaid factor John dobson<br />
upon the said dobsons bidding him goe aboard. And otherwise hee<br />
cannot depose.
To the 17th hee cannot depose.
To the 18th hee referreth himselfe to his foregoeing deposition, and<br />
cannot otherwise depose or answer.
To the 19th hee saith that the first port where the said shipp<br />
arived in England in her homeward voyage was Plimouth, and<br />
otherwise hee referreth himselfe to his foregoeing deposition, and<br />
saving the same cannot answer.
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saving the same cannot answer.
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