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and gave him a push from him soe that the … and gave him a push from him soe that the sayd May fell backward<br />
over a coyle of roapes which lay behinde him, And this deponent<br />
and others of the shipps Company then present who sawe the premisses and heard the words<br />
aforesayd passe betwixt them the sayd Master and the sayd May, stepped betweene<br />
them and persuaded them at that present to bee quiett, and the compasse beinge<br />
brought out of the sayd Cabbin, the differance ended for that tyme, And<br />
the sayd May still continueing his discontent did afterwards declare<br />
to this deponent in presence of the sayd Swinburne the Boastswaine and this deponents<br />
contest Robert harwell that hee the sayd May was resolved to<br />
goe in the sayd shipp noe further than to Meslapatam and the sayd<br />
Boatswaine being alsoe discontented with the sayd Master and being<br />
resolved alsoe to leave the sayd shipp and having heard that this deponent<br />
had alsoe a mynde to leave her if hee could gett his wages, sayd to<br />
this deponent, how shall wee gett our wages if wee leave the<br />
shipp, And thereupon the sayd May sayd there is<br />
money in the shipp wee may pay our selves out of that and leave<br />
the rest, whereto this deponent replyed noe, I will have noe hand<br />
in any such thing for I am not willing to leave my Country<br />
(meaning England) where his residence was and is) nor bee hanged at<br />
home and further hee cannot depose/
[?danill] harman [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The same day./
'''Rp. 3'''
'''Richard Chapman''' of Wapping in the County of<br />
Middlesex Mariner one of the Company of the shipp the<br />
''Vine'' aged twenty one yeares or thereabouts, a wittness<br />
sworne and examined saith and deposeth
That the shipp the ''Vine'' of London (James Barker Master) being<br />
in the yeare 1655 on her outward bound voyage for the East<br />
Indies, some differences happened betweene the sayd Master and<br />
John May his Cheife Mate and Pylott of the sayd shipp, and saith<br />
that one of the differences betweene the sayd Master and the sayd May<br />
was touching an Azimouth Compasse of the sayd May which<br />
the sayd Master had a desyre to have, (it being as hee conceived better<br />
than his owne) to make use of for the sayd shipps use in her sayd<br />
voyage, which the sayd May (as this deponent hath heard by others of the<br />
sayd shipps Company) refused to lett the Master have to make use of<br />
and this deponent being at the beginning of that difference in his<br />
Cabbin and hearing a great noise upon the deck of the Shipp came<br />
up to see what the matter was, and being come heard the sayd Master<br />
speake to John Swinburne the boateswaine of the sayd shipp commanded<br />
him upon perill of looseing his wages to goe and breake open the sayd<br />
Mayes Cabbin and fetch out the sayd Compasse and bring it to him the<br />
sayd Master and hee would beare him out for soe doeing, or to that effect<br />
and heard the sayd May then speake to the sayd Boatswaine and sayd<br />
thus or the like in effect I charge you upon penalty of more than<br />
tenn tymes the losse of your wages that you breake not open my cabbin nor [XXXX GUTTER]<br />
withthe sayd Compasse or words to that effect whereupon the Master being offended [?the GUTTER]<br />
Master and the sayd may fell to grappleing and laying hold one of<br />
an other, And the sayd Compasse was soone after brought to the sayd<br />
Masterter brought to the sayd<br />
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