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Transcription

The 12th day of March 1656/ [CENTRE HEADING]

Examined on the sayd allegation

dt smiith.

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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 wittnes sworne and
examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet.

To the first article of the say allegation 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 [?XXXXX] them selves like drunken debauched
and muntinous fellowes and were often or shoare in severall places drinkeing
and tippleing and came aboard severall tymes very much
overtaken with drinke and did carrie them selves soe stubbornely and
mutinously towards this deponent and his necessarie Commands that
many tymes this deponent was constrayned to forbeare to command
them to doe things necessarie for feare of their takeing distaste thereat
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 subsequent deposition hee cannot depose.

To the second hee saith that hee this deponent was in the moneth
of June one thousand sixe hundred fifty five at Saint Christophers
told 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 opprobious language
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 greatest part of the shipps company on shoare in the boate and
this deponent askeing the sayd Edwards what the 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 for that far (as hee sayd) shee was soe insuffi=
cient and by reason of the sayd Edwards sayd words and actions severall
of the sayd shipps company came away, and hee the sayd Edwards and
Whitfeild the Carpenter and Morgan the Boatswaine at an other tyme during the sayd shipps stay at Saint Christophers 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 Morgan before the Governour of Saint
Christophers to be punished 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 cursed and [?banned] the shipp and this
deponent And by such the ill Carriage of the sayd Edwards Whitfeild
and Morgan and by reason others of the shipps Company through their perswations wholy
deserted