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Master upon the Quarter deck, And hee sait … Master upon the Quarter deck, And hee saith (the same day) after the<br />
premisses soe happened the sayd May meeteing this deponent as<br />
hee this deponent was comming out of the steerage desyred this<br />
deponent to stand by him and take his part, And sayd if the Master<br />
would not pay him this deponent his wages, hee the sayd May would<br />
whereto this deponent answered the sayd May and said hee looked for noe<br />
pay of him, And hee alsoe saith that the sayd Swinburne the boateswaine<br />
did (before the difference predeposed of betweene the sayd Master and the sayd May happened) deliver to this deponent his Cutlase and Pistoll to keepe<br />
and this deponent laid them up in his Cabbin but the Cabbin having<br />
noe door to it this deponent knoweth not who tooke the same out thence nor<br />
when it was taken thence, but saith hee sawe the same afterwards videlicet after the differences aforesayd in<br />
the sayd boatswaines possession, and hee heard the Carpenter of<br />
the sayd shipp and others of the sayd shipps company saye that they sawe<br />
him discharge the sayd pistoll against an Anchor stock and that the same<br />
was charged with a brace of bulletts, And hee saith that the paper<br />
shewed unto him at this his examination and beginning thus On board<br />
shipp ''Union'' July 27th 1655 soe farr as concerneth him this deponent is<br />
truth and was subscribed by him with his owne handwriting And further<br />
hee cannot depose. saving his foregoeing deposition/
Richard Chapman [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The same day
'''Rp. 4'''
'''James Baker''' of Rederiff Wall in the County of<br />
Surrey Mariner one of the Company of the Shipp the ''Vine''<br />
of London aged nynteene yeares or thereabouts a wittnes<br />
sworne and examined saith and deposeth
That in the yeare 1655 hee this deponent went a Common man in the<br />
Shipp ''Vine'' (James Barker Master) on a voyage to the East Indies and that<br />
John May went Masters Mate and Pylott of the sayd shipp the sayd voyage In<br />
which voyage outwards bound there happened to bee some differences<br />
betwixt the sayd Master and the sayd John May, and remembreth<br />
that one of the differences was for that the sayd master desyred of the sayd May<br />
his the sayd Mayes Azimuth Compasse to use, and the sayd May being formerly<br />
displeased with the sayd Master refused to lett him have the same, and<br />
the Master being thereat offended, commanded one Swinburne the then<br />
Boatswaine of the sayd shipp upon perill of the losse of his wages to fetch<br />
the sayd Compasse out of thes sayd Mayes Cabbin and the sayd May speaking<br />
to the sayd Boatswaine sayd thus or to the like effect videlicet Boatswaine I charge<br />
you upon perill of tenn tymes the losse of your wages that you meddle not with the<br />
sayd Compasse, whereat the Master being displeased struck the sayd May a<br />
boxe on the eare, and the sayd May and the Master grappled and strugled one with the<br />
other and were at length parted by some of the sayd shipps Company, And hee<br />
saith the same day in the afternoone and not long after the sayd scuffle<br />
betwixt the sayd May and the sayd Master, the sayd May came to this deponent<br />
and told him that hee the sayd May beleeved that for his sayd<br />
contending with the sayd Master hee should be brought to the Capsterne and<br />
punished or to that effect, and desyred this deponent to take his the<br />
sayd deponent to take his the<br />
sayd +
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