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To the tenth hee saith hee sawe the delive … To the tenth hee saith hee sawe the delivery of and helped to deliver the said<br />
cheese fetched from the Mora'a to and by and<br />
upon the order of the said John dobson and Richard ffarington, who acknowledged<br />
themselves to be factors therein of and for the said George ffarington, and<br />
in particular by des[?caXXts] and conceits expressed by them in verse (in<br />
merriment) upon the names of˺ the said shipp the ''George (Bonadventure)''<br />
consigned unto them by George ffarington, and ariving there upon<br />
Saint Georges day, and otherwise hee referreth himselfe to his foregoing<br />
deposition.
To the 11th hee saith that after the said shipp had received in her said<br />
last lading (outwards bound) shee lay and was in the river of Thames the<br />
space of eight and twenty dayes and then departed, videlicet from the<br />
said 17th of January that shee received in the said herrings, to the<br />
fourteenth of ffebruary next following that shee set saile and<br />
proceeded from Gravesend.
To the 12th and 13th hee saith that after the second retourne of the said shipp<br />
from the Morea and while shee was and remained at Zant, it was<br />
said and reported that the said factors of Mr George ffarington had let the said<br />
shipp to freight to the Provindar of the said Island of Zant for<br />
a voyage to be made therewith to Cassandra in the Archipelagus<br />
to fetch graine and corne at the freight of seaven hundred dollars<br />
per moneth, and saith that the next day after this deponents first<br />
hearing the said report, the said John dobson and Richard ffarington<br />
came aboard with other friends and told this deponent and others of the<br />
shipps company present at the said affreightment, and<br />
drinking severall healths commanded severall guns to be fired;<br />
but the said shipps company (to the number of 24 whereof hee this<br />
deponent was one, and which was all her company saving the captaine<br />
the said Tompson her Purser and the Cooper Richard Browkes) having<br />
considered of the said voyage, and both by such of them as had bin there<br />
and by merchants ashore having understood that it was an unlawfull<br />
voyage, and contrary to the Capitulations betwixt England and the<br />
Grand Signor. and attended with soe much danger in that respect, as<br />
that the company being met with and taken by the Turkes were<br />
liable for perpetuall slavery without redemption, they refused<br />
to goe and would not goe the same; and saith that word being brought<br />
them aboard that the Provadar threataned to force them there or<br />
that hee would shoot at and sinke them, and they understanding<br />
that there were brigantines manning and readie to come aboard to<br />
force them, they haled three guns forre and aft to cleare their decks in<br />
case of forcible entrie, and to secure themselves from such violence.<br />
And saith the 24 persons soe refusing to goe the said voyage, were this<br />
deponent. John [?Golden], his precontest Christofer Neck, William<br />
[?Backles], Robert Morecock, John Gauwden, Abraham Carr, [?Thomas]<br />
Weekes, John Jackson, another John Golden, Nathaniel hutchinson,<br />
Thomas Richards, Robert [?Gallier], harry [?fforte], Richard<br />
Gallamp[?ton], William Tuff, Austin Petty, Thomas dikes,<br />
Harry danby, ffrancis Williams, John Brookes, henry Richards,<br />
Nicholas Miller and William Ribbet, (as this deponent<br />
understandeth their names to be) and saith the said John dobson<br />
afterwards confessed (as this deponent was informed) that if they had<br />
gonne and had bin taken by the Turkes, they had bin slaves and<br />
not to bee redeemed. And otherwise hee cannot answer saving as aforesayd
To hee cannot answer saving as aforesayd
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