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(considering the danger they were in if th … (considering the danger they were in if they should proceede further on<br />
their voyage toward England in such a leakie and insufficient shipp)<br />
did resolve for safegard of their lives, the shipp, and goods, to beare up<br />
the helme for some of the Leeward Islands and accordingly one John<br />
Bond then Gunner of the shipp and since deceased did about the nynth of december 1656 lett fly the mayne<br />
sheate and an other of the shipps Company but whome by name hee remembreth not boare up the helme and<br />
made for the Leeward Islands, which the sayd Bartlett seeing sayd,<br />
doe what you will, I will take noe more charge of the shipp<br />
or words to that effect, and soe went to his cabbin and stayed there<br />
two or three dayes pretending him selfe to bee sick, and after two or<br />
three dayes came upon deck againe, and tooke upon<br />
him the steerage of the sayd shipp till shee came to Antego where<br />
shee safely arrived with her ladeing it being one of the<br />
neerest places to them And saith that after they were<br />
come to Antego and had stayed there some tyme to repayre the leakes<br />
aforesayd and Careene the sayd shipp and fitt the shipp with tackle and such necessary rigging as shee<br />
wanted, her provisions were almost spent, and shee was faine to hav<br />
a supply of Bread from a Bristoll shipp there, and to procure beefe<br />
porke pease and the like of a new England shipp which was then there<br />
and before which supplyes victualls were soe scearce among<br />
the shipps Company that they were faine to goe in the night tyme and<br />
looke Crabbes which breede in the woods, to susteyne their necessities,<br />
And further to these articles hee cannot depose saving hee saith that<br />
after the arrivall of the sayd shipp at Antego her Company did by<br />
order of the sayd Bartlett there unlade her goods brought thither./
To the 7th article and the schedule therein mentioned hee saith for that<br />
hee went a longe with the arlate Bartlett after his arrivall at<br />
Antego, to the Governor there, and was present, hee knoweth that the sayd<br />
Bartlett did make a protest before the sayd Governour against the sea and<br />
of the insufficiencie of the shipp ''Recovery'' by reason of the sayd storme and did exhibit before the sayd<br />
Governour the testimonialls or certificate made by the sayd Crawfords men<br />
upon their view made of the sayd shipp at sea, and did desyre of the<br />
sayd Governour a Commission for others to view her, which the sayd<br />
Governour graunted, and shee was accordingly viewed by virtue of that<br />
Commission (after her goods were unladen at Antego) in presence of this<br />
deponent and divers others of the sayd shipps Company, And further hee<br />
cannot depose of his certayne knowledge, but beleeveth that the schedule<br />
arlate is a true coppy of all the proceedings arlate had at Antego<br />
and was and is subscribed with the hand writing of the sayd Governours<br />
Secretary there as hee beleeveth./
To the 3th article hee saith that of his this deponents knowledge the arlate<br />
Tawley and Company the parties in this suite did during all the tyme of<br />
the voyage from Barbados to the Cape Verd Islands and ffago and<br />
back to the Barbados and till her arrivall thense in England take great<br />
paines in manner predeposed to preserve the arlate shipp and her ladeing<br />
and in unladeing and reladeing her at Antego after shee was repayred, and<br />
saithr shee was repayred, and<br />
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