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and desired them to make inquiry after the … and desired them to make inquiry after the said Thomas Cockerell,<br />
Ralph Curtis, Marmaduke Jenkins, James Burland and Hendrick<br />
Staires, and to bring them on board the said shipp, and accordingly<br />
the said Marriners, did, (as they told this deponent and the rest of the<br />
Company at their returne,) make inquiry after them, and especially after the said<br />
James Burland the Carpenter, and Hendrick Staires the Gunners<br />
Mate of the said ship, but, (as they said at their coming aboard) could<br />
heare of none of them but the said Hendrick Staires, who (as they<br />
were informed was gone up into the woods, Yet the said Master<br />
did after<br />
the said ships setting saile ply to and against the said Iland, for about<br />
fower and twenty howres, But none of the said Mariners came<br />
on board in that space, Which hee knoweth being one of the Company<br />
as aforesaid, and aboard the said ship: And otherwise he cannot<br />
depose:/:
To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true:/:
John Taylor [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The same day
Examined upon the said Allegation.
'''Rp. (2us'''
'''Andrew Bowman''' of Shadwell in the parish of Stepney<br />
Mariner, Late Gunner of the ship the ''Tankervaile'' aged about 36<br />
yeeres or thereabouts sworne, and Examined:/:
To the first article of the said Allegation hee saith that within the time<br />
arlate the arlate Thomas Burton, was (and still is) the Master and<br />
Comander of the arlate ship the Tankervaile, and soe comonly accounted<br />
which hee knoweth because hee went all the voyage in question, Gunner of<br />
the said shipp/:
To the second and third articles hee saith the aid ship the ''Tankervaile'' within<br />
the time aforesaid, was bound out upon a Merchandizing voyage from this<br />
Port of London to the Barbadoes and to some other ports beyond the<br />
seas and from thence to returne home to this Port of London, And<br />
saith athat a little before the said shipp sett saile, from this Port of London<br />
the arlate Thomas Burton did Hire the arlate Ralph Curtis James<br />
Burland, and Hendrick Staiares at London, and the arlate Thomas Cockerell<br />
at Gravesend, and was all of them Hired as this deponent heard and beleeveth<br />
to goe and saile in the said shipp all the said voyage, as Officers and<br />
Mariners in her, and to returne home to this Port, Which this deponent<br />
knoweth because hee was Gunner, and went all the said voyage in the<br />
said ship: And otherwise hee cannot depose, (saving the said Jenkins<br />
was hired at their coming to the Barbadoes./
To the 4th hee saith that within the time aforesaid the said Thomas Cockerell<br />
Ralph Curtis, James Burland and Hendrick Staires, did goe and saile<br />
from hence to the Barbadoes, in the said shipp ''Tankervaile'', on the said<br />
voyage, and after, her arrivall at the Barbadoes, and having receaved a<br />
Lading, and having receaved a<br />
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