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June last And further saving his subsequen … June last And further saving his subsequent deposition hee cannot depose
To the 4th 5th 6th and 7th articles of the sayd libell hee saith that the<br />
sayd two shipps or vessells the ''Owners Adventure'' and the ''Greyhound'' being<br />
come neere the Coast of Greeneland this deponent gave order<br />
to the sayd Gosling Maundrie and humfreys and the rest of the company<br />
of the shipps ''Owners Adventure'' and ''Greyhound'' neere Bell Pointe in Greene<br />
land, to make ready their boates and to towe in the sayd shippes amongst<br />
the Ice and gett them either into some harbor or as neere the shoare<br />
as they could this deponent well knowing (having<br />
the Greenland trade for divers yeares last past) that such places are the<br />
likelyest places where whales are to bee taken, And the sayd Gosling<br />
Maundrey and humfreys and all the rest of the sayd shipps Companys<br />
did very well heare and understand this deponents orders and directions<br />
therein, and did for a while yeild obedience unto them, and did put<br />
out their boates and worke the sayd shipps in to the Ice about<br />
eight or tenn leagues as did alsoe fower other English shipps which were<br />
then in Company with the ''Owners Adventure'' and ''Greyhound'',<br />
and after the sayd shipps had all sixe of them wrought soe farr into<br />
the Ice, the Ice then proving to bee somewhat thick this deponent<br />
ordered his Companyes of his two vessells upon the fifteenth daye of June last which was the same day they began to XXX XXX to make fast to a<br />
great Ice peece of Ice and lash their vessells fast board and board<br />
to the shipps of Mr Golding and Mr Welch being two of the other fower<br />
English shipps aforesayd, who had alsoe cause their Companys<br />
to make fast their two shipps to the same peece of ice and the sayd<br />
shipps being soe fastened, they all laye there for some tyme then<br />
when the Ice would open as usually it doth, and this deponent<br />
the next day (observing that the Ice did begin to open betweene<br />
shoare and the sayd shipps ˹to the Eastward to the said shipps˺) did goe on boarde the shipps of the said<br />
Welch and Goulding and aske them whether they would work<br />
in their shipps any further with the Ice and told them hee did<br />
discover that the Ice opened towards the shoare to the Eastward of the sayd shipps and therefore hee<br />
thought they might well worke further into the Ice<br />
and gett to<br />
Bell sound or Greene harbour, or some other place neere shoare<br />
and told them that hee this deponent was not confined to any<br />
one particular harbour, whereto the sayd Goulding and Welch replyed<br />
that they did desyre to see the whether the Ice would open more toward<br />
Bell Sound ward, they being by order enioyned to goe thither<br />
not to any other place if they could by any meanes possible make<br />
thither, whereupon this deponent seeing that the sayd Goulding and<br />
Welch were bound only for that particular place of Bell sound<br />
and not willing for that reason to worke further into the Ice unless<br />
it opened so oportunely as to pull them into that particular place, and<br />
this deponent being desyrous in regard<br />
heet being desyrous in regard<br />
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