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Transcription

the foresaid refractorie mariners refused to doe any duty, but kept
the shipp by the space of a moneth or more and as longe as there were
any provisions or victualls in her, and then deserted her and with
drew their service and refused to bring her home, which hee knoweth
being one of her company, and seeing the premisses soe donne.

To the eighth hee saith that the said Thomas Towers and all the
rest of the fore said refractorie mariners, and indeed all the mariners
of the said vessell saving this deponent and the said Paramour left
and deserted her and otherwise disposed of them selves in other
shipps and otherwise, and in particular the said Thomas shipped
himselfe in a shipp of which one mr Greenleaf was master
bound for Venice, and soe did his boy, and further that none of
the mariners that went from England in the service of the said shipp
came home in her only this deponent and the said Paramour
which hee knoweth as aforesaid.

To the Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING]

To the first negatively.

To the second hee saith hee did not know the said Thomas
Towers before his embarquement here and coming to Gravesend
nor was present at his hiring, and saith the said Thomas
was boatswaine of the said shipp, and had a boy that was his
servant or under him, and the said Thomas went in her the
said voyage with his said servant from Gravesend and
untill such her comming to the Barbadas, and such his
deserting her there as aforesaid, And that the said shipp delivered
her Negro's at the Barbada's in or about december 1655 as
hee remembreth the time. And otherwise cannot answer saving as aforesaid

To the third hee saith hee was in her at Cormantine and was
a foremast man in her. And saith the said Towers (as this
deponent guesseth) is of 50 yeeres or betwixt 40 and 50
yeeres of age, and was a lustie tall man of a brownish haire, and
saith hee abetted and complied with the rest of the said mutineers
in the said mutiny [XXXXXXX] money to [XXXXXXX] about the busines at the Barbada's and saith hee heard the master give order
to the said Paramour to raw the bond predeposed, and afterwards
saw him deliver a paper to William ffrost the Gunner, and
say theres the obligation for your being paid at the
Barbadas, and otherwise hee cannot answer saving as aforesaid.

To the fourth hee cannot answer.

To the 5th hee saith there was noe supracargo in the said shipp but Mr Barton
who was at the Barbadas did upon the shipps arivall there
act for the merchants concerned in the Negroe's.

To the 6th 7 and 8th hee saith the said Mr Barton made the
said offer and exhorted them as aforesaid at the Barbada's, and that
the said Towers served alonge the voyage in the said shipp till such
her coming to the Barbades, but refused to come with her for England
And otherwise referreth him selfe to his foregoeing deposition

To the Interrogatories in the second place hee saith hee this deponent hath
bin paid his wages here since his arivall by Mr Barton, Mr Wells and
the other merchants, comming to 33 li sterling for 17 monethes

Repeated before doctor Godolphin.

the marke of
Tanica [MARKE OF AN ANCHOR ON ITS SIDE] Sevinian [MARKE, RH SIDE]