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Transcription

Owners freighters and imployers of the Greyhound arlate and did
fitt and furnish both the sayd shipps with all things necessarie for
the voyage in question which was a fishing voyage to bee made from
this Port of London to any Port or Place in Greeneland where they could
most conveniently, gett to and which the master and Commander in cheife
should think most convenient and for the advance of the sayd voyage, and
soe back for London And saith the arlate Damerell did goe Master
and Commander of the Owners Adventure and alsoe had the Command
of the Master and Company of the Greyhound and direction and ordering of
her and her company as well as of the Owners Adventure and her Company
Committed to him for the sayd voyage, which Command (as he beleeveth)
was soe committed to him by the sayd Batson Beane and Golderne, And
the sayd damerell did as Master of the Owners Adventure hyre this dept
to goe a Copper man for boyling of the whales taken the sayd voyage
And saith the arlate Gosling and Mandry did goe masters mates.
of the Owners Adventure and the arlate Humfreys as a harponeere
and one of her company for the sayd voyage, and take upon upon them the sayd
places, and were (as he beleeveth) to bee obedient to the Command of
the sayd Damerell, And the sayd shipp being soe provided with all
things necessarie, the sayd Damerell Maundrie Gosling Humfreys
this depondent and the rest of their companyes sett sayle toward Greeneland
upon the sayd ffishing imployment and safely arrived neere the
coast of Greeneland, and further to these articles hee cannot depose.

To the 4th and 5th articles of the sayd libell hee saith that
the sayd shipps Owners Adventure and Greyhound after they had a
while and endeavoured to gett some whales at sea upon a place called the West
Ice, seeing they were prevented of taking them after they had struck
them, by the whales running under the Ice and towing the boates soe
that they were in danger to be drawne under the Ice and perish with their
Companyes, did foresake the West Ice, and came to the Coast of Greeneland,
and there happened in Company with fower London shipps whereof Mr
Pybus Mr Golding Mr Welch and Mr Child were Masters, and
Consorted or kept Company with them and the sayd fower shipps and
the Owners Adventure and Greyhound did in the moneth of June last all
worke into the Ice toward shoare, together, and after they had all wrought in
about eight or tenn leagues, the sayd shipps Owners Adventure and
Greyhound and the sayd Golding, Welch and Childs shipps made
all fast to one piece of Ice, and laye board one board and of an other
and the sayd Pybus his shipp made fast to another piece of Ice a little,
distance off, and saith they there laye fast divers
howers videlicet about forty eight howers as hee remembreth, in which
tyme the sayd damerell went aboard Gouldings shipp, and after
hee had stayed there some tyme came there aboard the Owners
Adventure