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Company on board to visiite freinds aboard … Company on board to visiite freinds aboard, by which meanes there being<br />
noe boate to follow them, they gett to shoare and escaped cleere away and as<br />
appeared afterwards put them selves in to the States services for Jamaica under<br />
Command of the arlate Generall Sedewick and the sayed Totty being at<br />
London which they escaped when hee came was made acquainted which the<br />
manner of their escape and the sayed Totty<br />
being desyred by the Company of the shipp that in regard if was<br />
not any fault of their, (both boates being absent) that the dammage<br />
for their escape might not bee put upon the shipps Company, they<br />
not being in fault, the sayd Totty there upon did publiquely<br />
in presence of their deponent and the sayed huggery, Turpin and divers others<br />
of the sayed shipps Company, and of some passengers bound for the<br />
Barbados, and their deponents and Huggeries Turpin wives who were them<br />
aboard with their husbands say, that the sayed shipps company<br />
should not bee troubled about their escape, for hee the sayed Totty<br />
would make satisfaction to the sayed Cooper for them with other servants<br />
or passengers which hee had on board which had noe Masters, or<br />
hee spake words to the like effect on board the sayed shipp at Gravesend<br />
And hee saith hee hath heard that the sayed Tottie had a discharge<br />
for them from the sayed Generall Sedgewick afterwards, they being<br />
under his Command in the States service, And further hee cannot<br />
depose/
To the 5th hee saith hee knoweth that two of the sayd<br />
shipps cables were soe rotten at the Barbados, that though they<br />
were both fastened to one Anchor the better to make them hold, yet<br />
upon weighing of the anchor they both brake with the weight<br />
of the anchor and the Anchor was lost not with standing their deponeth others of the company<br />
did doo their best endeavour for the preservation of it and Turpin the<br />
masters mate did much endanger him selfe and stood up to the<br />
arme pitts in water to fasten a roape to the anchor to save it from<br />
looseing, but could not and further to their article hee cannot depose/
To the 6th hee saith that this deponent and the rest of the sayd shipps<br />
company did doo their best endeavour during the sayd voyage to<br />
preserve the sayed shipp her tackle and lading and hee saith that the<br />
shipp being arrived at Greenewich with her homeward ladeing (all<br />
save what shee delivered before her comming thither) and a lighter<br />
being there ready to receave some goods on board her, the sayd<br />
Tottie commanded the sayed lighter to bee laden with goods, and<br />
in order thereto the sayd shipps company did lade divers goods from<br />
on board into her and romeaging among the goods on board found<br />
then that some a sugar caske on board was halfe empty of sugar<br />
whereupon the sayd huggery told the sayd Master thereof, whereto<br />
the sayed Master replyed that the company must then pay for it, and<br />
thereupon the sayd huggery and company desyred the sayd Tottie that<br />
before any more goods were unladen a survey bee made by<br />
orderden a survey bee made by<br />
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