HCA 13/71 f.347r Annotate
Volume | HCA 13/71 |
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Folio | 347 |
Side | Recto |
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Karen Gunnell | |
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2012/11/04 |
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[ENTIRE PAGE IS STRUCK OUT WITH A LARGE CROSS ON THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT, WITH A MARGINAL NOTE ON THE PREVIOUS PAGE STATING THAT THE DEPOSITION WAS VOID SINCE THE INDIVIUDAL WAS SWORN AS A PARTY PRINCIPAL, NOT AS A WITNESS]
To the 3rd article of the sayd allegation hee saith that hee well knoweth
that the arlate John Viber was boateswaine of the shipp the Edward and John
in the tyme of her outward bound voyage untill a while after the sayd shipp came into
the downes and there the sayd Viber and one Abraham [BLANK SPACE IN MANUSCRIPT] his Mate
were by this deponent the Cooper and others of the the sayd shipps company
taken running away with the sayd shipps boate and some goods which
the said Viber and his mate had imbezelled from on board the sayd
shipp and brought back with some of the goods with them, they
the sayd Viber and his mate having as he hath heard heaved overboard some of the
goods by them imbezelled when they sawe they were like to be taken
and this deponent sawe some silke [XXXX] and other things which they had imbezelled pulled out of their pocketts And saith the sayd Tottey thereupon discharged the sayd
Viber of his place of Boateswaine but continued his sayd Mate in
his place of Boateswaines Mate, and put another to bee Boateswaine in
place of the sayd Viber, and made the sayd Viber Quarter Master in which
place hee continued till the sayd shipps arrival in the Barbadoes and
till she had delivered their outward Cargo, and then the said Captaine
Tottey spake to this deponent being his cheife mate and willed him to tell
the sayd Viber that hee might goe on shoare and take his cloathes with him
and bee gone, and the sayd Tottey told this deponent that hee would not be seene
in it nor take any notice of it or to that effect, and this deponent thereupon did
tell the sayd Viber soe much whereupon the sayd Viber tooke his cloathes
and went a shoare and afterwards served under Captaine Miunes in a ffrigott
of this Commonwealth and having gotten enterteynement there caused alsoe
an apprentice which hee the sayd Yiber had and remayned still on board
the Edward and John to bee taken away from her and put aboard
the sayd ffrigott which caused a falling out betwixt the sayd Captaine
Tottey and the sayd Captaine Miunes his men who came to fetch
sayd apprentice and the sayd Tottey calling them rogues and
[XXXs] for coming to fetch the sayd Apprentice from him and refused to let him goe
whereupon they returned to the ffrigott without the sayd
Prentice, and bought a great force of men with them and tooke
the sayd Prentice perforce and Commanded the sayd Captaine Totty
to goe with them aboard the sayd ffrigott to Captaine Minnes which
hee refused to doe whereupoon they tooke him perforce and carried
him on board the ffrigott where as hee that heard hee was clapt
in the bilboes for the sayd words by him spoken and further hee
cannot depose/
To the 4th he saith that
hee this deponent had noe perticular charge of such servants as
did runne away out of the sayd shipp Edward and John, but saith some
servants did escape away while the sayd shipp lay at Gravesend outward bound and as
hee heard did goe into the service of the Commonwealth and as this
deponent hath heard the sayd Totty had a discharge from Generall
Sedgewick for them, and saith the sayd Totty told this deponent and company
that they should not bee questioned or troubled for these fower which
were escaped for hee had fower others on board that had noe Masters with
whome he would supply the want of these or words to that effect
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