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Lading aboard sailed therewith to Santa Cr … Lading aboard sailed therewith to Santa Cruze and Salley, in<br />
Barbary, and there delivered her said Lading, and tooke in another Lading there,<br />
and sailed therewith directly to the Barbadoes, and delivered her<br />
Lading ther, which shee brought from Barbary, and begann to take<br />
in her Lading at Barbadoes, and whilest the ship was receaving in<br />
her Lading, the said Thomas Cockerill Ralph Curtis, James<br />
Buckland, Herbert Staires; and Marmaduke Jenkins, (which Jenkins was<br />
taken into the said ship by the said Thomas Burton, at the said shipps<br />
first coming to the Barbadoes) did all desert and Leave the said<br />
shipps; Contrary to the good Liking of the said Burton: And further<br />
hee cannot depose:/:
To the 5th hee saith that A little before the said shipp was ready to<br />
set saile from the Barbadoes, to this Port of London The<br />
said Burton being ordered by ffactors there Resident in this deponents hearing to sett saile<br />
for England, ánd that in case hee did not sett saile with the said<br />
ship that Night, it should bee at his owne Perill, and prejudice<br />
Yet the said Tho: Burton did send his Boate on shore, with<br />
this deponent and three or foure more mariners of his Company, to inquire<br />
after the said Thomas Cockerell, Ralph Curtis, Marmaduke<br />
Jenkins James Buckland and Hendrick Staires, which accordingly<br />
this deponent and the other Marriners did, but could not heare of<br />
any of them but the said Hendrick Staires who (as this deponent and the rest, were<br />
informed) was gone upp into the Woods And soe this deponent and the rest returned aboard and told the said Master And saith the said Master<br />
plyed to and against the said Iland for about the space of<br />
Eighteene or twenty howres, Yet none of the said men, that soe Left<br />
the said ship returned aboard, The Premisses hee deposeth being<br />
one of them (as aforesaid) soe sent on shore, And one of the Company<br />
of the said shipp as aforesaid and otherwise hee cannot depose,
To the Last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true:/:
Repeated with his Precontest before Doctor<br />
Godolphin at his house:/:
Andrew Bowman [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]use:/:
Andrew Bowman [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] +
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