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call from on board the sayd Gouldings ship … call from on board the sayd Gouldings shipp and commanded the boatswaine<br />
to call up the Companye of the ''Owners Adventure''<br />
sayd shipp and to mann their boates and make ready to worke further in toward<br />
shoare in order to gett to shoare or harbour (which of this deponents knowledge<br />
having made severall voyages to Greeneland are the likely places to take<br />
whales in) and the Boatswaine accordingly called up the Company and they<br />
divers of them did make ready their boates to worke the sayd shipps ''Owners''<br />
''Adventure'' and ''Greyhound'' further in, And the sayd damerell comming from on<br />
board the sayd Goldings shipp on board the ''Owners Adventure'', still continued<br />
his former Command, and the same was well heard and understood by the arlate<br />
Gosling Maundrie humfreys and the rest of the sayd shipps Companyes, and<br />
the sayd Gosling did thereupon speake to the sayd damerell and sayd thus<br />
or the like in effect, wee will goe noe further, and the sayd Damerell<br />
replying to the sayd Gosling and saying I Command you to worke in further (or to that effect) the sayd<br />
Gosling answered and sayd the sayd damerell was noe Commander of his,<br />
and that hee would not bee commanded by him, and that hee was a better<br />
man than hee or words to that effect, and the sayd damerell thereupon sayd the sayd<br />
Gosling should knowe hee was his Commander, and that Mr Batson had<br />
in writing given him authority to have the Comand of both the shipps and their<br />
Companyes, (meaning the ''Owners Adventure'' and ''Greyhound'') and that hee hoped<br />
that if hee the sayd Goséing were this crosse (and hindered the voyage by his crossnesse<br />
the sayd Mr Batson would pay him noe wages, whereto the sayd<br />
Gosling replyed a fart for wages, and the voyage alsoe and that hee would see that man that dared lay hands of a roape to worke in or words to that<br />
effect, and the master being offended and provoked<br />
by the sayd Goslings refractorie and disobedient speeches, did tell the sayd<br />
Gosling that hee was a Jacanapes and a sawry boye and a pimpeing roague and other the like speeches<br />
and the sayd Gosling told the sayd damerell that hee was a roague, and<br />
a pimpeing rogue, and might goe a pimpeing when hee came home if<br />
hee did not make a voyage, and other the like approbious words all which<br />
were spoken openly upon the deck of the ''Owners Adventure'' in the presence<br />
and hearing of this deponent and all or most of the Companye of the ''Owners''<br />
''Adventure'', and alsoe in presense (and hearing as hee beleeveth) of the Companyes<br />
of the sayd Welches shipp and Goldings shipp and the ''Greyhound'' who then laye all<br />
board and board one of an other, and therefore could not choose but heare the same<br />
but the master still continueing his Command to worke the sayd shipps<br />
''Owners Adventure'' and ''Greyhound'' further in, the Companyes of them though<br />
they were very much discouraged by the sayd Goslings speeches, did worke the<br />
sayd shipp about a league further in towards shoare and there by the sayd damerells order made her<br />
fast againe And the sayd damerell after they had rested there a while did<br />
againe Command the sayd shipps ''Owners Adventure'' and ''Greyhound'' to bee wrought<br />
still further in towards shoare, whereupon the sayd Maundrey then openly<br />
upon the deck of the ''Owners Adventure'' in presense and hearing of this deponent<br />
and divers others of the sayd shipps Company sayd by God<br />
wee will worke noe further in, and I dare venture my life to a farthing<br />
or my neck to a penny, that noe shipps will gett into harbour in Greeneland<br />
this yeare, and if<br />
the shipps were within a league or two of Bell Point as they are at least fower<br />
or five leagues off, yet the Ice is soe thick toward shoare that wee cannot gett inhick toward shoare that wee cannot gett in +
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