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To the Interrogatories:/: [CENTRE HEADING] … To the Interrogatories:/: [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first hee saith hee cometh to Testify in this Cause at<br />
the request of the said Groves, without Compulsion, and<br />
saith hee favoureth both the partyes Interrate alike; and saith that<br />
if it were in his Power. hee would give the Victory according<br />
to the Lawe, and according to Justice and equity: and saith<br />
hee was none of the Company of the said Ship ''Peace'' the<br />
Voyage, in question, but came passenger in her as aforesaid<br />
from Plymouth to London; and was in her about a moneth<br />
And further cannot Answer
To the second it Concernes him not.
To the third hee saith hee knowe not the said Luke Wood untill<br />
such time as this Respond:t came onboard the said Ship at Plymouth<br />
And saith that hee hath heard some say that the said Wood<br />
was an honest man, and some to the Contrary, and further<br />
cannot answer:
To the 4th hee saith hee knowe not the said Grove, till such his comming<br />
onboard at Plymouth And saith the said Grove was by<br />
the said Bartlet, Capell, and one Gould, and some other<br />
of the said Ships Company, accounted a Pevish, rash, and angry<br />
man, but is not Genenerally soe accounted, and further cannot<br />
answer, saving negatively for his part:/.
The last Concernes him not./:
Repeated before Doctor Godolphin:/.
Wm: Boweman [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 5th day of Aprill 1658.
Examined on the said Allegation:
'''Rp. 2:dne'''
'''Robert Grove''' of Wapping Mariner aged<br />
50 yeeres or thereabouts sworne and Examined.
To the first article if the said Allegation hee saith and deposeth That<br />
the arlate Ship the ''Peace'' whereof Thomas Grove was Master<br />
was of this deponents certaine Knowledge bound from the<br />
Newfoundland as well to the Leeward Islands as to the<br />
Barbadoes. and soe much hee saith hee oftentimes heard<br />
Luke Wood (in his lifetime) on board the said ship. acknowledge<br />
and declare, and further hee cannot depose:/:
To the second hee saith that the said Ship lay winde bound<br />
at ffalmouth Harbour on her outward Voyage for about thirteen<br />
dayes, and soe soone as ever the winde Turned. The said<br />
Thomas Grove, and Luke Wood (who were then both on shore)<br />
did come Imediately on board the said Ship ''Peace'', and soe<br />
soone as they were come onboard which their coming onboard was in the afternnoone of the 17th of Aprill 1657: the said Grove ordered<br />
that the Anchor should be weighed, and that the ship<br />
should be sailed downe to Pendennis Castle (being<br />
about two Miles from ffalmouth Harbour) and there ordered<br />
this deponent (who was Cheife mate of the said Ship. all the said Voyage to lye there at<br />
Anchor untill day light, in regard it is a very dangerous place<br />
for is a very dangerous place<br />
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