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The 12th day of March 1656

Examined on the sayd allogation

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John Lockier of Limehouse in the parish of Stepney and
County of Middlesex Mariner Master of shipp the Negro aged
thirty five yeares or thereabouts a wittness sworne and
examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet.

To the first article of the say allogation hee saith that hee this deponent being
Captaine of shipp Negro the whole voyage in question thereby well and
experimentally knoweth that the arlate Samuell Edwards and Roger Whitfeild
did in the voyage in question deXXam them selves like drunken debauched
and continous followes and were often or shoare in seuerall places drinking
and tippling and came aboard voyage tymes very much
overtaken with drinke and did carrie them selves soe such hourly and
continously towards this deponent and his were ffarie Commands that
many tymes was this deponent was constrayned to forbeare to company
them to doe things were farie for feare of their takeing distaste there at
and running away and deserting the sayd shipp which they severall
tymes attempted to doe and this their drunken and disobedient carriages
was a thing publique and notorious not only to this deponent but to
the whole shipps company who sawe and tooke notice of the same
And further saving his subferent deposition hee cannot depose.

To the second hee saith that hee this deponent was take by in the moneth
of June one thousand sixe hundred fifty five at Saint Christophers
tolde by severall freighters who had taken tonnage in the sayd shipp
there, as alsoe by severall others inhabitants in Saint Christophers that the
arlate Edwards and Whitfeild and ˹some˺ others of the the sayd shipps Company
did behinde this deponents back give this deponent oppracrious XXXXX
and disparrage ˹this deponent and˺ the sayd shipp alsoe, and reporte that shee was very
leakie and insufficient and unfitt to performe her voyage, And saith
that in the tyme that the sayd shipp lay at Saint Christophers this deponent
being on shoare called to the Company of his shipp to bring the boate
on shoare to fetch him on board whereupon the sayd Edwards brought
the give a last past of the shipps company on shoare in the boate and
this deponent asking the sayd Edwards what be reason was that soe
many of the Company came on shoare hee answered in the behalfe
of himselfe and the rest of them and sayd that they would not proceede in the
sayd shipp on the voyage the for that far Sas hee sayd) shee was soe insuffi
cient and by reason of the sayd Edwards sayd words and actions seuerall
of the sayd shipps company came away, and hee the sayd Edwards sayd
Whitfeild the Carpenter and Margan the Boatswaine at an other tyme during the say shipps stay at Stepney/SterlingXXX carried away their cloathes on board
of another shipp lying at Saint Christophers and deserted their dutie on
board the Negro contrary to the will and Command of him this deponent
in soe much that this deponent was forced to threaten them to have them
the sayd Edwards and Whitfeild and Margan before the XXXXnenr of Saint
Christophers to be parished in case they would not returne aboard
and obey this deponents commands according to their dutie, whereupon
the sayd Edwards Whitfeild and Morgan (for feare of punishment) did
returne on board the Negro, but still continued their idle and
debauched behaviour and were still refractorie and disobedient
to this deponents Commands and caused and banned the shipp and this
deponent And by such the ill Carriage of the sayd Edwards Whitfeild
and Morgan and by XXX reason others ˹of the shipps Company˺ through their perswations wholy
deserted

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