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and then the Master and Purser agreeing to … and then the Master and Purser agreeing to pay them<br />
one Moneths pay at five shillings a doller they accepted<br />
thereof and came aboard againe, and saith there was a writing or<br />
noate made conteyning the names only of all such as consented to<br />
deserte the sayd shipp for want of pay but whether the sayd Nocks<br />
name were therein hee knoweth not, but is well assured that<br />
neither the sayd Nock nor any of the parties plaintiff in this suite saw<br />
Richard Brooke was any of the sayd defectors, but continued<br />
aboard, And hee further saith that about January 1655 the sayd<br />
shipp being ready to sett sayle from Ligorne arlate the sayd Nock<br />
and one Morecock the Carpenters Mate and some other were ashoare there after the sayd<br />
shipp was under sayle, and saith the sayd shipp did staye and turne<br />
up and downe expecting the sayd Nock and others and the shipps<br />
boate being in the meane tyme sent to fetch water the sayd Nock<br />
and those with him towards Evening came aboard in the sayd boate with the<br />
sayd water, And further to this article hee cannot depose/
To the 12th hee saith the arlate John Godden was three or fower<br />
tymes ashoare at Zant and further to this article hee cannot<br />
depose saving his foregoeing deposition./
To the 13th hee saith that the arlate denby and Brooke were sometyme<br />
on shoare, and the sayd Brooke the oftener of the two, but how many dayes<br />
or nights either of them were on shoare hee remembreth not, but saith<br />
the sayd Brooke the Cooper having bin a shoare at Zant was sick and<br />
in the tyme of his being sick the Water Caske of the sayd shipp neaded<br />
mending and the sayd Brooke not being able to mend it by reason of his<br />
sicknes, the purser hyred an other man in his stead to doe it, the sayd<br />
Brooke consenting and being willing to make allowance out of his wages<br />
for the same, And further saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot<br />
depose./
To the 14th hee saith that some of the sayd shipps Company videlict<br />
John Goaring John Jackson Henry ffoote Richard Gallhampton<br />
and some others (whereof the Plaintiffs in this suite were none) were<br />
refractory and disobedient to the Commands of their superiors and<br />
saith that once some of the sayd shipps Company for that the purser<br />
would allowe them but a pinte of oyle a weeke to a messe did<br />
refuse to pumpe unlesse they might have a larger allowance of<br />
oyle, and hung their oyle bottles upon the pumpe, and the Master<br />
and Purser consenting to allowe them a pinte and a halfe of oyle to a<br />
messe they thereupon fell to pumpeing againe And further to<br />
this article hee cannot depose/
To the 15th hee cannot depose/
To the 16th hee saith that in the moneth of March the sayd<br />
Shipp the ''George Bonadventure'' having lost her Rudder at Sea was forced to put<br />
into Plymouth to bee fitted with a new Rudder and while shee laye there<br />
an Imbargoe came from the Lord Protector and Councell for staying<br />
allr and Councell for staying<br />
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