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discontent against the sayd Master did aft … discontent against the sayd Master did afterwards in the sayd<br />
shipps outward voyage speake to this deponent and tell him that hee<br />
the sayd May would when hee arrived in India buy a Junke and<br />
goe ashoare and leave the sayd shipp and persuaded this deponent<br />
to goe alonge with him the sayd May and this deponent thereto replyed<br />
if I forsake the shipp how shall I get my wages whereto the sayd<br />
May answered if you will goe alonge with mee I will use a meanes<br />
that yow shall not neede to feare getting your wages or the sayd May<br />
used words to the very same effect the premisses hee deposeth for the<br />
reasons aforesayd and saith that the paper shewed unto him at<br />
this his examination and beginning thus, On board shipp ''Vine''<br />
July the 27th 1655 (soe farr as concerneth him this deponent) was<br />
and is true and was and is subscribed by him this deponent with his<br />
owne hand writeing And further hee cannot depose/
Edward Carre [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The same day./
'''Rp. 2'''
'''Daniell Harman''' of Lymehouse in the parish of<br />
Stepney and County of Middlesex Mariner at first Quarter<br />
Master and since Boatswaine of the shipp the ''Vine'' of London<br />
aged thirty seaven yeares or thereabouts a wittnes<br />
sworne and examined saith and deposeth
That James Barker the Master of the shipp the ''Vine'' being bound with<br />
the sayd shipp upon a voyage to the East Indies, in the sayd shipps out<br />
ward bound voyage there happened some differences and dissention<br />
betweene the sayd Barker the Master, and John May his cheife Mate<br />
and Pylott, which first arose (as this deponent hath hearde and beleeveth)<br />
for that the sayd May did demande a greater or further allowance of<br />
wine and victualls in behalfe of the sayd shipps company than was<br />
allowed of by the sayd Master, and alsoe about the Masters takeing from<br />
him the sayd May a Compasse called an Asinneth Compasse, And this deponent<br />
heard the sayd Master demand of the sayd May the sayd Asinneth Compasse and sayd if yow (meaning the sayd May) will not observe in it, or make<br />
use of it your selfe, lett mee make use of it, whereto the sayd May answered<br />
and sayd the Compasse was his, and hee would keepe it, or words to that<br />
effect and the Master being thereat offended and desyrous to make use of<br />
the sayd Compasse commanded John Swinburne his boatswaine upon<br />
perill of looseing his wages to take the sayd Compasse out of the sayd<br />
Mayes Cabbin and give or bring it to him the sayd Master, and the sayd<br />
May thereupon speakeing to the sayd Boatswaine, charged him that upon<br />
perill of looseing tenn tymes more than his wages, hee should not<br />
meddle with the sayd Compasse, And thereupon the sayd<br />
Master bidd the sayd May hold his tongue or else hee would strike him<br />
a Cuff on the eare, and the sayd May replyed to the sayd Master that<br />
if hee stuck him, hee the sayd May would strike him againe,<br />
with which the sayd Master being displeased hee struck the sayd May anding displeased hee struck the sayd May and +
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