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very scarce and soe scarce that in this de … very scarce and soe scarce that in this deponents Judgment they could<br />
not have lasted to bring her for England unlesse shee had bin much tighter<br />
and better provided of rigging than shee was thereby to hasten her passage,<br />
shee being when shee made for the Islands and forsooke the Company of<br />
the ''Gilbert'', about eleven hundred leagues from England, and having not<br />
sayled then from the Barbados above two hundred leagues or<br />
thereabout, And saith that after the sayd shipp her arrivall at Antego<br />
her ladeing was there by order of the sayd Bartlett put on shoare<br />
for the better repayreing the sayd shipps leakes and new Careening<br />
of her and the sayd shipp was provided with a quantitie of bread and beefe and fish which they gott from other shipps but alsoe saith that while the sayd shipp soe laye at Antego<br />
her company were soe streightned in allowance of victualls through<br />
want of provision aboard the sayd shipp the bread provided being but till their goeing to sea and poore allowance made them of the other provisions that they did were necessitated<br />
to goe into the woods there in the night tyme and Catch Crabbs which<br />
breede among the rocks in the woods there to releeve themselves and hee this deponent went among<br />
others a Crabb ketching, and knoweth the things predeposed the better for<br />
that hee kept a dyary or memoriall of the sayd shipps passages in<br />
her Journey from Barbados till her arrivall at home at London<br />
And further to those articles hee cannot depose/
To the 7th article of the sayd allegation and the schedule therein<br />
mentioned and now shewed unto him hee saith hee knoweth<br />
that while the sayd shipp ''Recoverie'' was at Antego certaine men<br />
came aboard authorized (as hee hath heard and beleeveth) by the Governour<br />
there to that effect, and did view the sayd shipp, but what returne they<br />
made upon their view hee knoweth not, but saith hee beleeveth they did<br />
make a Certificate of her defects, And further to this article and schedule<br />
hee cannot depose of his certayne knowledge, but beleeveth the contents<br />
of the sayd schedule to be true./
To the 8th hee saith that the arlate Tarley and Company<br />
parties to this suite and others of the shipps company did of this deponents sight and knowledge from<br />
the tyme of his this deponents first coming aboard her at Barbados behave them<br />
selves carefully and diligently and take great paines and labour during<br />
the sayd voyage (as this deponent alsoe being a passenger and tyed to labour<br />
for his passage did) and did unlade the sayd shipp ''Recovery'' at Antego, and<br />
relade her after shee was repayred, and by such their hard labour<br />
and want of provisions, some of the sayd shipps Company dyed at<br />
Antego, and some other by the way home, by which meanes those which<br />
were left alive were forced in the voyage thense home to worke soemuch<br />
the more to supplye the labour of them that<br />
were dead and saith the sayd Tawley and Company the parties in<br />
this suite and others of the sayd shipps Company with the helpe of this<br />
deponent who wrought as a passenger as aforesayd did sayle the<br />
sayd shipp safe to London where the same with her ladeing arrived<br />
and there this deponent left the same after hee had receaved his goods from<br />
on board her, and in her this deponents Judgment the sayd Tawley and<br />
Company parties to this suite did and doe well deserve the wages schedulate<br />
forserve the wages schedulate<br />
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