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on land in boyling and doeing other worke … on land in boyling and doeing other worke so had about whales after they<br />
are taken, and verily beleeveth they have noe skill in sayleing or manageing<br />
of a shipp at Sea, or to knowe when it is fitt to carry her in or out of a harbour<br />
And hee saith that the arlate Mr Beane did in the presence of the arlate Mr<br />
Batson and in the sayd Batsons Counteing house tender unto this deponent a<br />
paper which the sayd Batsons man brought ready written with the names of<br />
severall of the ''Owners Adventures'' Company subscribed thereto, which<br />
writeing did importe thus or the like in effect videlicet that the refusall of the sayd shipps Company<br />
to obey the Commands of the sayd damerall was the cause of the Over=<br />
throwe of the voyage in question, and the sayd Beane and Batson desyred<br />
this deponent to sett his hand to the sayd noate, and told him if hee<br />
would subscribe the same they would doe more for him this deponent<br />
than they had done for any other of the subscribers, but this deponent<br />
having perused and read some part of the sayd paper and knowing the<br />
contents thereof to bee false, refused to subscribe thereto, And further to<br />
this article hee cannot depose saving hee saith that hee heard the<br />
sayd Maurice fford saye that (who is one of those whose names are<br />
subscribed to the sayd noate saye, that if the (speakeing of the<br />
sayd Batson) and meaning also the sayd Beane (as this deponent beleeveth)<br />
had not promised to pay him his wages, hee would have seene them<br />
hanged before hee would have come into Court (meaning this Court)<br />
to testifie to testifie on their behalfe./
To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true/
To the Interrogatories [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith hee cometh to testifie by the meanes of the<br />
producents Gosling and Maundry, who caused a compulsorie to bee served<br />
on this deponent to that effect, And to the rest of the Interrogatorie hee answereth<br />
negatively./
To the second hee saith hee knoweth the parties plaintiffs and defendants in this<br />
suite and favoureth them all alike and desyreth right may prevaile in this cause<br />
And to the rest of the Interrogatorie hee answereth negatively./
To the 3 hee saith hee was Gunner of the ''Owners Adventure'' the voyage in question,<br />
and hath not commenced any action against the Interrogate Batson Beane<br />
and Golderne or any of them for wayges for t{he} voyage in question nor intendeth to commence<br />
any unlesse hee bee enforced thereunto by their uniust dealeings in denying<br />
to pay him what is due to him./
To the 4th hee saith hee heard the sayd damerell on the fifteenth day of June<br />
1656 command the Companye of the ''Owners Adventure'' to worke into the<br />
Ice with the other ffower shipps predeposed, and heard him on the seaventeenth<br />
day commend the sayd Company to worke further into the Ice than the other<br />
fower shipps did, both which commands hee saith the sayd Gosling and Maunfrie<br />
also heard and well understood, and saith that upon the 17th day of June aforesayd<br />
the sayd Gosling seeing and hearing the sayd Damerell command the sayd shipps<br />
Company to worke into the Ice than the other fower shipps did, the sayd Gosling<br />
thereuponid, the sayd Gosling<br />
thereupon +
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