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''Peace'' by assistance of one of the ''Pe … ''Peace'' by assistance of one of the ''Peaces'' Company who tooke hold of<br />
the sayd Wood as hee hung by the rayles of the ''Peace'' All which happened<br />
in this maner the sayd shipp ''Peace'' having first stood off from the<br />
ffrench shipp about halfe a league and then by the sayd Thomas Groves order<br />
tacking about with intent to get windewards of the ffrench shipp the ''Peace''<br />
having her two topp sayles alofte and being but newly tackt about shee<br />
did not feele her helme and soe the sayd Grove the Master caused her fore topsayle to be<br />
lowered that the shipp might come to, and the shipp ''Peace'' drawing nigh<br />
to the ffrench shipp and not getting the winde of her this deponent and Mr<br />
Tizard (both Mates) told the sayd Grove that they feared they should be<br />
aboard of the ffrench shipp, hee the sayd Grove having caused the fore<br />
topp sayle to be lowered, whereto the sayd Grove answered and sayd<br />
noe, I hope not, and ordered the foretopsaile to be hoisted againe<br />
that soe the ''Peace'' might beare up under the ffrench shipps Sterne, but<br />
the ''Peace'' was then gotten soe neere the ffrench shipp that there was not<br />
roome for the ''Peace'' to beare up under her sterne, by which ??endeavour<br />
she came fowle of the sayd ffrench shipp in manner as aforesayd<br />
and further hee cannot depose
To the 20th article hee saith that the arlate Thomas Grove was from<br />
Newfound land bound directly for the Barbados, as by the bill<br />
of ladeing doth and may appeare and saith that hee hath heard the arlate<br />
Robert Grove one of the Mates of the ''Peace'' who had formerly bin at the<br />
Barbados, saye that hee did advise the Master Thomas Grove to keepe<br />
a more Easterly course than hee did and that the sayd Thomas thereupon<br />
answered him the sayd Robert Grove and sayd hee should not watch him to<br />
finde the Barbados for he could tell well enough here to finde it<br />
though hee had not bin there yet, and soe the sayd Thomas<br />
Grove holding on his course did not of this deponents sight and knowledge come with his shipp into the<br />
due latitude for the Barbados but in steade of gaining the Barbados<br />
made the Islands of Saint Lusea and upon the eighth day of<br />
November 1657 arrived with the ''Pease'' at Nevis And further to<br />
this arle hee cannot depose
To the 21th article hee saith that in the moneth of November 1657 (the<br />
tyme now certainely hee doth not now call to mynde) the arlate Luke<br />
Woods Thomas Grove and this deponent and Robert Groves and William Tizard<br />
Mates Edward Gold Chirugion of the ''Peace'' being at supper togeather<br />
aboard the sayd shipp the sayd Thomas Grove the Master did give<br />
the sayd Woods very reproachfull Speeches and called him old<br />
Roague Pedler Pimpe and Chi?uch and spreading his hands<br />
abroad swore that if hee layd them upon him the sayd Woods hee<br />
would teare him in peeces and sayd alsoe that if the sayd Woods<br />
was not an olde Roague hee would drubb him that hee should not be<br />
able to help him selfe And further to this article hee cannot depose<br />
for that hee this deponent rose from supper and was gone off of the deck before<br />
the sayd Grove the Master and Woods came out of the round house upon<br />
the deck and soe heard not what passed betweene them upon the deck.t what passed betweene them upon the deck. +
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