Difference between revisions of "HCA 13/71 f.311r Annotate"

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1. and differences betweene the sayd Master and his Mate about the
2. steereing the sayd shipps course and the sayd Master Mate would and
3. did often tymes thwarte and Crosse the Master when hee had shaped
4. the sayd shipps course, and would cleere alter and change the course
5. shaped by the Master and this deponent hath heard the sayd May in
6. the sayd shipps outward course that hee openly before this deponent
7. and others of the sayd shipps Company upon the deck tell the Master
8. that hee the sayd May was by the Owners shipped ˹cheife˺ Mate and Pylott
9. of the sayd shipp for the sayd voyage and that hee would not bee
10. contradicted or diverted by hee the sayd Master of words to that effect
11. and saith that at one tyme in the sayd shipps outward voyage and
12. as hee remembreth in or about the moneth of June ˹1655˺ the Master
13. aforesayd did require of the sayd May an Azemoth Compasse
14. of his the sayd Mayes M (and which hee the sayd May kept in his
15. Cabbin) that hee the sayd Master might thereby observe and finde
16. the variation, and thereby the better order the sayd shipps course
17. according as by the use of the same hee should find it fitt, and
18. the sayd May refused to lett the sayd Master have the same, whereupon
19. the Master replyed thus or the like in effect it is for the good
20. of the voyage that I desyre it, and if yow will not lett mee have
21. it by fayre means I will have it by force, and hee the sayd May
22. continuing still obstinate in his denyall thereof thX and endeavouring
23. to hinder the fetching of the sayd Compasse, the Master upon the
24. sayd Mays resistence grappled with the sayd May and the sayd
25. May with the Master , and the master at length threw the sayd May
26. downe upon the shipps deck neere the steerage doore, and caused
27. the sayd Compasse to be fetched out of the sayd Mayes Cabbin
28. and made use thereof for the shipps use and these passages
29. and speeches happened in presence of this deponent and Robert harwell
30. Caleb K Kyme Daniell harman Richard Chapman this deponents
31. Contests and most of the shipps company and this the sayd Master and
32. the sayd May being parted, XX John Swinburne the then boatswaine
33. of the sayd shipp called this deponent upon the forecastle, and
34. this deponent thinkeing it had bin only to pick Ocam or other
35. worke requisite about the shipp went thither, and coming thither
36. ˹sawe and observed˺ that there were diverse handspikes then lying upon the forecastle
37. but to what intent hee knoweth not, And sayeth that about a day or
38. soe after the sayd last mentioned contention betwixt the sayd Master
39. and the sayd May, hee the sayd May spake to this deponent
40. and told him that hee the sayd May was like to be turned out of
41. his Cabbin by the sayd Master and desyred this deponent to
42. take part with him and to hinder his being turned out whereto
43. this deponent answered and sayd that peradventure if hee should doe
44. soe the Master would not pay him this deponent his wages, And
45. the sayd May replyed and sayd that I will doe well enough for that yow
46. shall not ˹neede˺ to feare that ˹I will see you paid your wages˺ or to that effect, and the sayd Swinburne the
boatswaine

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