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conspired, and what danger we should be in, if it were 

 (which God forbid) effected. Furthermore, to weigh 

 with your selfe the great want of many necessaries in 

 our ship : namely that we have but 6. sailers, (besides 

 your selfe and your mate Street, whom wee dare not 

 trust,) Also that wee have but one ancker, likewise the 

 lacke of our boate and a Carpenter, of ropes, of pitch, 

 [III. 84.1.] treynailes, bolts, and plankes, and the want of a skilfull 

 Chirurgian. And whereas a view being taken of our 

 provision there was found but five moneths victuals of 

 bread, meale, greets, and pease, and also but three 

 moneths victuals of beefe, penguins and porke, three 

 hogsheads of wine, ten gallons of aquavitae (whereof 

 the sicke men could not get any to relieve them,) 

 foure hogsheads of syder and 18. flitches of bacon, &c. 

 the company hath but three flitches. Also the said 

 Captaine Hawlse and Street have taken and seased upon 

 17. potts of butter, with certaine cheese, and an hogs- 

 head of bread at a time, and have bene thereof possessed 

 to their owne private uses : And have not onely im- 

 moderately spent the companies provision in butter, 

 cheese, aquavitae, &c. but have also consumed those 

 sweete meates, which were layed up in the shippe onely 

 for the reliefe of sicke persons (themselves being healthy 

 and sound, and withholding the said meates from others 

 in their sickenesse) and even at this time also (by reason 

 of the small store of our provision, wee being enforced 

 to come to a shorter allowance) they the saide Captaine 

 Hawlse and your mate Street, doe finde themselves 

 agrieved at the very same allowance, wherewith other 

 men are well contented. And although (besides our 

 ordinary allowance, and more then all the rest of the 

 company) they only have their breakefasts permitted 

 unto thern, yet they complaine that the company goeth 

 about to famish them, whereas indeed they doe what 

 lyeth in them to famish the company by feeding them- 

 selves fat, which doe no labour at all. These things 

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