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The 20th of October 1657.
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The 20th of October 1657.
Cowse against the ''Golden ffortune''}<br />
and against Jones. Suckly. Smith}<br />
Exámined upon an allegation on behalfe of<br />
the said Cowse given in the 16th instant.
'''Rp. .j.'''
'''Giles Baily''' of the parish of Saint Mary Magdalen<br />
Bermondsea Mariner, aged 30 yeeres or<br />
thereabouts sworne and exámined.
To the fourth article of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth that<br />
hee well knoweth the arlate James Reade and Morgan Jonas, and<br />
saith the said Morgan Jone's was shipped for and went Master of the shipp<br />
the ''Golden ffortune'' the voyage allegate, and tooke the governement of<br />
the said shipp upon him for the said voyage, of this deponents sight and<br />
knowledge, this deponent being second mate unto him in<br />
the same. And saith that the said shipp the said voyage, from the time<br />
of her issuing or going out of the Gararchicho in the Iland of Teneriff, to<br />
the time of her comming to the an anchor in the Roade of Palma spent<br />
eight dayes space or thereabouts, and went once about the said Iland<br />
of Palma before shee could finde the said roade, And otherwise hee<br />
cannot depose, saving what followeth.
To the fifth article hee saith and deposeth that after the dispatch of the said<br />
shipp and goods aboard her from the said Iland of Palma, the said<br />
Morgan Jonas was by order of the producents Edmund and James Cowse<br />
or their agents (as this deponent was informed) to saile the said shipp<br />
directly to the Iland of Barbada's, but through the unskilfulnes or carelessnes<br />
of the said Jone's the said Iland of Barbado's was overshott by the said<br />
shipp, soe much, that shee was nine dayes or thereabouts more then shee<br />
needed to have bin in gaining and seaking her port in the said Iland<br />
which hee knoweth being his second mate, and going the said voyage in the<br />
said shipp, and as touching the unskilfulnes of the said Jonas, hee saith<br />
hee cannot otherwise depose thereof, than that the observation made from<br />
time to time by the said Jonas of the sun at Noone, was thirtie minutes<br />
or halfe a degree to the Southward of the observation of this deponent and<br />
of William Trutter the cheife mate, who often compared his observation with<br />
this deponents and they still agreed, and found the said Master to be soe much<br />
in an errour, and though they told him thereof, yet still hee persisted<br />
to navigate the shipp according to his owne observation, which being<br />
soe erroneous, this deponent conceiveth that that was the cause of<br />
such his missing his ports and places sought for, and to be longer<br />
(by that meanes) in finding them than otherwise hee needed.
To the 6th hee saith that there were laded aboard the said shipp in<br />
this port before her proceeding on the said voyage, namely in or about<br />
the moneth of January 1656 by the said producents or their order<br />
(amongst other goods) foure bales of goods, but the contents hee<br />
knoweth not, but they were said to be a bale of fustian and three of<br />
Linnen, to be transported to the Canaries in the said shipp, and saith<br />
that the said foure bales of goods were through the carelessnes or ignorance<br />
of the said Jonas removed from the place for ward on before the maine<br />
hatchesrd on before the maine<br />
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