HCA 13/72 f.303v Annotate

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and saith that as hee hath heard and beleeveth all the rest of the mariners of the sayd shipp the sayd
voyage did consent to the sayd agreement And further to these articles hee
cannot depose/

To the 3 article of the sayd allegation that the sayd shipp having sett sayle from this
Port of London arived neere Cormantine upon the Coast of Guinney and
being come thither and before they came to that place of Guinney to which the sayd
shipp was designed the arlate Towers Sedgemore Griffin Browne Pollard
ffrost and Trigg raised a mutiny in the sayd shipp wherein the arlate Abraham the Cooke and all the rest of
the mariners thereof by their instigation and perswasion (except this
deponent and Thomas Paramore the Masters mate) conspired against the Master
and contrary to the Masters Command and against his will there brought
the sayd shipp to an Anchor and kept her to an Anchor a day and a halfe
and one night and refused to sayle any further with the sayd shipp and
in order thereto prepared their cloathes in a readinesse to goe ashoare
and threatned the Master to goe ashoare and desert the shipp unlesse the sayd
Master would give them bond to pay them their wages then due within
tenn or eleven dayes after the arrivall of the sayd shipp at the Barbados
which the sayd Master to appease the sayd mutinye and keepe them from
deserting the sayd shipp before shee came to her designed port in Guinney
was forced to doe and did doe this hee knoweth being one of the sayd
shipps Company And further hee cannot depose/

To the 4th hee saith that after the sayd bond soe entered by the Master the sayd
shipps company went to Banda in Guinney where there were Negroes [?taken GUTTER]
aboard whereon they went thence to the Barbados and further to this
article hee cannot depose/

To the fifth article hee saith and deposeth that the said voyage
the said Master was traversed and vexed with and by his said refractorie
mariners, and particularly in the passage
from the said River of Banda for the Barbadas, the foresaid mutin[?ous GUTTER]
that his distraction and trouble increased, and still the nearer that
they came to they Barbadas the more their importunitie and
clamour upon the master increased and soe did his disquiet
by meanes thereof, Insomuch that comming in view of the
Land of Barbadas hee by their frequent tormenting him became
wholly distracted, and unserviceable and unfit to act and
doe according to his place and dutie in the busineses of the
said shipp, and saith the said mariners would not suffer the
Negroes to goe out of the shipp but by order of the Justice
and authoritie there, a sute being there instituted by them against
the master, And otherwise hee cannot depose saving as aforesaid

To the sixth and seaventh articles hee saith and deposeth that
the merchant at the Barbadas that was to receive and did
receive the Negro's having reproved the said mariners, for [XXXXX]
obstinacie against their master, earnestly exhorted and desired them
to carry the said shipp to England, and promised them their wages
according to agreement upon their arrivall thether, and offered
to furnish them with provisions and necessaries for the voyage, hee
[?thXXX GUTTER]