HCA 13/71 f.295r Annotate

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To the 12th hee cannot depose, saving there is primage due to the
Master and company.

To the 13th hee saith the said factors spent and caused to be consumed
a greate quantitie of the shipps powder at healths and in Jollities
and otherwise cannot depose.

To the 14 and 15 hee cannot depose.

To the Interrogatories [CENTRE HEADING]

To the first and second hee refereth himselfe to his foregoing deposition, and
cannot otherwise depose.

To the third hee saith they were at 36 days between the time of
their departure from Torbay and her coming to Zant, and otherwise
saving his foregoeing dep[ositi]on hee cannot remember.

To the 4th and 5th hee referreth himselfe to his foregoing deposition.

To the 6 hee hath not deposed to the effect interrate

To the 7 hee saith the said shipp the George Bonadventure upon
her going out upon her said voyage was of burthen of about seaven
or eight score tunnes, in this deponents estimation.

To the 8th negatively.

To the 9th negatively for his part, and otherwise cannot answer, saving as aforesaid.

To the 10th he referreth himselfe to his foregoing deposition.

To the 11th hee saith the said shipp after shee had received her last
outward lading [?staid] about a further three weekes in the River
of Thames, before she departed thence.

To the 12th hee saith that the said shipps companie understanding
after their said second returne from the Morea, that the said factor
had at Zant in the said shipp to freight to the Provadit[?o]r for an
unlawfull voyage to bee made with the said shipp into the archipela[go?]
whereby they should be in danger of perpetuall slavery, they all
(saving the master purser and cooper) to the number of 24 whereof
this deponent was one, refused the said voyage, and understanding that the
Provedit[?o]r were about to compell them, they held out for and
ask to stand upon their defence and not otherwise.

To the 14th hee cannot answer as he saith saving he heard
the shipp was freighted for Tunis; where they her companie were willing
to have gonne but how the voyage came not to take effect
hee knoweth not.

To the 15th and 16 hee cannot answer, saving some of the company
went nowe and then ashore.

To the 17th hee saith hee hath heard that some of the company have
received only part of their wages in lieu of the whole, which hee
beleaveth they have donne as being c[?onscious] of their owne
misbehaviour in the voyage.

To the 18th hee referreth himselfe to his foregoing deposition, and
cannot otherwise depose.

To the 19th hee saith that the said John dobson laded the said fustick
in Zant, and that Plimouth was the first port the said shipp arrived at
in England upon her returne.

To the 20th negatively as aforesaid.

To the 21 and 22th negatively.

Reported before Collonel Cork

Henry Denbe [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]