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Transcription

And hee further saith and deposeth that the said Captaine Ashmore
did hire the said Richard Cittabee and Jeremiah Prewe to serve in the
said shipp the Blessing for and dureing the said voyage for which hee saith
it was comonly reported aboard the said ship they were to have the
respective monthly wages arlate, both the said parties producent
entring into theire said pay upon or about the 8th day of May 1647.
arlate, and as hee saith did continue and remaine abord the said
ship by the space of 22. moneths and odd daies as is arlate, twelve
moneths or thereabouts of the said tyme hee the said Cittabee
was Boatswaine of the said ship for which hee was and is to have
the monthly wages of 35. s; Et ulterius deponit that of the said 22. moneths
and odd dayes pay into them the said Cittabye and Prewe were
abord the said shippe and when they came into her imployment and
hearing theire respective wages to bee as is arlate. Et alr salvis
infrascriptis nescit deponere

Ad 3um deponit det dicit that the said ffrancis Ashmore did hire
contract and agree to and with the said Cittabee and Prewe and
all the rest of the said ships Companie at theire entring into the said
shipps service that they should go from this Port of London to
Newfound land and soe to and from the respective places arlate
and not to any other place whatsoever and at the same tyme hee
did likewise promise and contract to and with the said ships Companie
that hee would stay out with his said shipp but only by the spece of 14
or 16. moneths at the longest as is arlate; albeit the said Ashmore carryed
his said ship and Companie to Saphee in Barbary wherre diverse
of his said Companie goeing ashore there were slaine And saith that
dueing the tyme of the said voyage in question hee the said Ashmore
did often tymes and without any cause (that this deponent knoweth or hath
heard on) beat strike and most cruelly and barbarously abuse the said
Cittabee and Prewe and diverse others of the said ships Companie, and through
his such inhumane carriage and behaviour did force diverse of the
said ships Company to desert theire service abord the said ship for the
security of their lives and limbes Et ulterius deponit that about the
tyme arlate hee the said Ashmore goeing a second tyme towards Saphia
they the said Cittabee and Prewe haveing staid allready abord
the said ship by the space of about 6. moneths longer then theire contract
and haveing allready tasted of the cruelty and barbarous useage of the
said Ashmore they did desire him that they might depart from and leave
the said ship and soe come for England, which hee saith was denyed unto them
insomuch that they were constrained to leave the said ship for theire owne
security and so procure theire passage (to theire great losse damage and
expense of moneyes) to come for England as is arlate reddens rationem
[?XX ?XXXX] [?uisu] et scientia. hee being aboard the said ship the Blessing
all of the voyage in question. Et alr nescit deponere.
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