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at such tyme as they began to put back out … at such tyme as they began to put back out of the Ice to sea, were about seaven or<br />
eight leagues distant from Bell Point the sayd Point then bearing be in this<br />
deponents Judgment betwixt East and by South, and East South East off the sayd shipp<br />
and the ''Owners Adventure'' and ''Greyhound'' were as is predeposed in this deponents<br />
Judgement about fower myles further into the Ice towards shoare than the<br />
other shipps were, but how Bell point then boare as to them, hee knoweth<br />
not, and further hee cannot depose/
To the 11th hee saith that upon the eighteenth of June last the other fower shipps<br />
and alsoe the ''Owners Adventure'' and ''Greyhound'' gott out of the Ice to sea<br />
and were in Company all togeather att Sea as is predeposed, and soe continued in<br />
Company about a fortnights tyme, and then stormie and foggie weather happening<br />
the sayd damerell with his shipps the ''Owners Adventure'' and ''Greyhound'' lost<br />
the Company of the other fower shipps of the sayd Pybus Welch Golding and<br />
Child, soe that what hee did afterwards as touching getting into harbour<br />
hee knoweth not, for that hee sawe not the ''Owners Adventure'' and ''Greyhound''<br />
during the voyage in question till their returne to London, but saith that<br />
after the ''Owners Adventure'' and ''Greyhound'' had soe lost the Company of<br />
the other fower shipps, the sayd other fower shipps did upon the<br />
thirteenth day of July last gett all into harbour and there fished and<br />
killed divers whales to the number (amongst all fower of them) of about<br />
one or two and twenty whales, and soe might the sayd damerell<br />
in this deponents Judgment have killed a like proportionable share as they did if hee had not as aforesayd bin parted<br />
from the Company of the other shipps in manner aforesayd<br />
And further saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot depose/
To the 12th hee saith hee hath knowne the arlate Gosling and Maundry<br />
for these tenn yeares last or thereabouts, in which tyme hee knoweth<br />
they have made severall voyages to Greeneland as harponeeres,<br />
and alsoe as officers on shipps, and knoweth them to bee men able and<br />
experienced in the Greeneland fishing and such as are reputed honest<br />
and sober and well qualified men, and to have performed their best<br />
according to their places with care and diligence, And further saving his<br />
foregoeing deposition hee cannot depose<br />
Upon the rest hee is not examined by direction of the producents./
To the Interrogatories [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first hee cometh uncompelled to testify being required by the<br />
producents Gosling and Maundrie to speake the truth of his knowledge<br />
in this cause And the rest of the Interrogatorie hee answereth negatively
To the 2 hee saith hee well knoweth Maundrey and Gosling two of the parties<br />
litigant in this suite And the Interrogate Batson only by sight and the rest<br />
of the parties litigant hee knoweth not And favoureth all the parties litigant<br />
alike, and desyreth they only may prevaile therein who have right soe to<br />
doe And further cannot answere/
To the 3 hee saith hee was none of the Company of either of the shipps<br />
Interrogatether of the shipps<br />
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