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Company of the ''Recoverie'' and asked the … Company of the ''Recoverie'' and asked them What cheere howe,<br />
whereto the Master of the ''Recoverie'' replyed and sayd wee have a<br />
very leakie shipp, and desyred the sayd Croford to come on board<br />
the ''Recoverie''; whereto the sayd Croford replyed I cannot come, come<br />
you aboard of mee, whereupon the sayd Bartlett Master of the Recovery<br />
caused his skiff to bee hoisted out and therewith went aboard the sayd<br />
Crofords shipp, but what conference they had togeather hee knoweth<br />
not for that hee this deponent continued aboard the Recoverie, but<br />
saith that after a while two of the sayd Crofords company (whereof one<br />
was the sayd Crofords Mate) came with the sayd Bartlett aboard the<br />
''Recoverie'' to view the leakes and Condition of the sayd shipp ''Recovery''<br />
and did view and search the same, and upon view thereof did in<br />
presence and hearing of this deponent and others of the ''Recoveries''<br />
Company advise the sayd Bartlett to beare up for some of<br />
the neerest Islands, before hee were too farr gone from<br />
them, and did in presence of this deponent and others whose names<br />
are subscribed as wittnesses thereto give a testimoniall under<br />
their hands that in their Judgment the sayd shipp ''Recovery'' was<br />
soe leakie that shee was insufficient to proceede home for<br />
England without being amended, which testimoniall being made<br />
the sayd Crofords two men went aboard their owne shipp againe,<br />
and then the sayd Bartletts men thereupon urged the Master to<br />
beare up for the first Christian shoare they could make to whereto the Master<br />
replyed whether would you have mee goe, and the shipps Company then<br />
cryed to the Barbados if wee can fetch it, if not to some of thee<br />
Leeward Islands, (meaning as hee beleeveth Antego or some other of the Leeward<br />
Islands) that wee may repayre our shipp and save our lives and<br />
ladeing or to that effect, whereto the sayd Bartlett answered thus or<br />
to the like effect noe, wee will make for Bermudas, whereto<br />
the shipps company replyed to this effecte, Bermudas is a dangerous<br />
place now in Winter tyme to get in at if the shipp would hold out soe<br />
farr, and wee are soe warye with continuall pumpeing that wee<br />
cannot hold out soe farr, whereto the sayd Bartlet replyed and sayed<br />
then I will goe for new England where I am acquainted, and if I<br />
can reach thither I shall there fitt my shipp, whereupon the shipps<br />
Company considering the length of the voyage thither (it being about<br />
sixe or eight hundred leagues thither) and the insufficiencie of the sayd<br />
shipp and her rigging to brooke for soe longe a voyage in the winter tyme<br />
and the dangerousnesse of that coast sayd they might as well venter to goe to Old England as to goe thither,<br />
and therefore they would make to the first land they could come at,<br />
and thereupon the sayd Bartlett seeing that the company were not<br />
willing to adventure their lives in the sayd shipp soe farr as to tho[se GUTTER]<br />
placesrr as to tho[se GUTTER]<br />
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