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the Boatswaine (after this deponent soe sawe his name subscribed to the
sayd noate) sayd in presence of this deponent and of one Thomas Wells and
one William Nicholls, that the sayd Batson was a Knave, and that hee
had drawne him in when hee the sayd Parker was in drinke to subscribe
the sayd noate, the contents whereof (as hee sayd) hee neither could nor
would maintayne And further to this article hee cannot depose./
To the last hee saith his foregoing deposition is true and further hee
cannot depose/

To the Interrogatories/ [CENTRE HEADING]

To the first hee saith, hee cometh to testifie in this cause by vertue of
a Compulsorie or Warrant served upon him by Mr Browne the deputy [GUTTER]
Marshall of this Court on behalfe of the producents to that effect, and hath
receaved nothing nor is promised anything for his testimony and saith hee
was brought before Mr Suckley the producents proctor and did declare
to him what hee could testifie in this cause, but what use the sayd Suckley
made thereof hee knoweth not, And further cannot answere otherwise
than negatively/

To the 2 hee saith hee knoweth the parties plaintiffs and defendants and favoureth
all alike in this cause and desyreth right may prevaile therein And
to the rest of the Interrogatorie hee answereth negatively./

To the 3 hee saith hee did arrest Batson upon an action entered in the
Poultry Counter for his wages due to the voyage in question which
Action hee lett fall and doth intende after hee seeth the dXXXX of the
suite to sue him and Beane and Golderne for the same in this Court if they pay it not in
the meane tyme, And saith hee was the Carpenter of the Owners Adventure

To the 4th hee saith saving his foregoing deposition to the 4th 5th 6th
7th and 8th articles of the allegation wherein hee hath at large and soe farr as hee can satisfied the
contents of this Interrogatorie hee cannot answere, saving hee saith that
hee well knoweth that both hee and all the rest of the Company of the
Owners Adventure notwithstanding the sayd Gosling and Maundrys
words predeposed of did in all things yeild obedience to the Command
of the sayd damerell during the whole voyage in question./

To the 5th hee saith, hee hath bin two voyages at Greenland before
the voyage in question and all three voyages in service of Batson Beane
and Golderne, and saith his first voyage was in the Richard (one Mr Peryman
Master) which shipp went to Bell Sound to first where shee safely arrived
and the second voyage was in The Gentleman of London (the foresayd damerell
Master) which shipp went to the foreland point, and to Smiths Bay
Crosse Road, Port Nock, and ducks Cove and anchored safely in
all those harbours or places, and the last voyage being the voyage in question,
in the Owners Adventure (the sayd damerell Master) in which as is predeposed
shee gott not at all to harbour, And saith that the sayd first voyage
there was little or noe Ice upon the Coast, in soe much that a smale
wherrie might safely have passed into harbour, And that the
sayd second voyage there was smale store of Ice in soe much that
in this deponents Judgement there was not by a thousand parts soe much
Ice as was the voyage in question, And that the voyage in
question was there was soe great store of Ice that in the judgement
of the sayd damerell himselfe and all the masters of the other shipps
in