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was an unlawfull voyage And Nathaniell [?h … was an unlawfull voyage And Nathaniell [?h]utchinson the<br />
Masters Cheefe Mate sayd it was an unlawfull voyage and<br />
a thing Contrary to the Grandsigniours Command that anye<br />
Christians shipp should lade Corne at Cassandra and that they<br />
that did lade Corne there were in danger (if discovered) to bee<br />
made perpetuall slaves, and therefore hee would not goe that<br />
voyage upon any termes whatsoever but would rather take<br />
his Cloathes and leave the sayd shipp and pay for his passage<br />
home to England, or to that effect, and the sayd Company all<br />
but this deponent and the sayd Brookes and the Master and Purser<br />
being unwilling to goe the sayd voyage the purser tooke a list<br />
of the names of all the refusers and carried the same on shoare to<br />
show to the Providore a foresayd whereupon there came a<br />
Mandato or Warrant from the Providore to require the sayd<br />
hutchinson to appeare before him and the same being<br />
brought aboard in absence of this deponent (who was<br />
then on shoare with the Master and Purser) the said shipps<br />
Company as hee hath heard would not suffer the<br />
sayd hutchinson to goe a shoare to the Providore, and<br />
this deponent heard some of the Company before the sayd<br />
mandato came, and while this deponent was on board, saye, that<br />
they expected that a mandato would come and were resolved<br />
when it did come the sayd hutchinson should not goe, And<br />
hee saith that the sayd master Purser and this deponent come<br />
aboard after the sayd Mandato had bin soe sent, forced the<br />
gunnes traversed fore and afte, and farther hee cannot<br />
depose saving hee saith the sayd Companyes refuseing to<br />
goe was the cause the sayd voyage was lost./
To the 8th hee cannot depose
To the [?ixth] hee saith that hee did observe that while the<br />
shipp the ''George Bonadventure'' laye at Zant the arlate<br />
Christopher N[?o]ck did lye a shoare some tymes, but<br />
how many dayes or nights hee knoweth not, and whether he<br />
lay on shoare upon his owne pleasure or had the Masters<br />
leave soe to doe hee knoweth not, And saith that the sayd<br />
shipps Company or the greater part of them did at Zant<br />
demand of the Master three moneths pay or thereabouts<br />
at the rate of fower and sixe pence a doller and the sayd Master refused to pay them, and thereupon all<br />
fowerteene of the sayde shipps Company (whereof Richard [XXXXX GUTTER]<br />
one of the parties in this suite was one) did goe a shoare at Zant<br />
and desert the sayd shipp for the space of a day each and a night<br />
and of a day each and a night<br />
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