per of the Public Records
London, 9th _June_, 1909.

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Admiralty Court. Oyer and Terminer. 6.

No. 2 cannot be found. The bundle commences at present with No. 8.

No. 77. True Bill found for the trial of Robert Bileth alias
Blythe, late of the precinct of St. Katherine next the Tower of
London, co. Middlesex, mariner, Abacucke Prickett, late of the city
of London, haberdasher, Edward Wilson of the same, barber-surgeon,
Adrian Matter, late of Ratcliffe, Middlesex, mariner; Silvanus
Bonde, of London, cooper, and Nicholas Sims, late of Wapping,
sailor, to be indicted for having, on 22 June 9 James I, in a
certain ship called The Discovery of the port of London, then being
on the high sea near Hudson's Straits in the parts of America,
pinioned the arms of Henry Hudson, late of the said precinct of St.
Katherine, mariner, then master of the said ship The Discovery, and
putting him thus bound, together with John Hudson, his son, Arnold
Ladley, John Kinge, Michael Butt, Thomas Woodhouse, Philip Staffe,
Adam Moore and Sidrach Fanner, mariners of the said ship, into a
shallop, without food, drink, fire, clothing or any necessaries,
and then maliciously abandoning them, so that they came thereby to
their death and miserably perished. [Latin. Not dated.]

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Admiralty. Oyer and Terminer. 41.

[_Abstract_]

Friday 7 _February_, 1616 [O.S.]

Abacucke Prickett, of London, haberdasher, examined, says that
Henry Hudson, John Hudson, Thomas Widowes, Philip Staffe, John
Kinge, Michael Burte, Sidrach Fanner, Adrian Moore and John Ladley,
mariners of the Discovery in the voyage for finding out the N.W.
passage, about 6 years past, were put out of the ship by force into
the Shallop in the strait called Hudson's Strait in America, by
Henry Grene, John Thomas, John Wilson, Michael Pearce, and others,
by reason they were sick and victuals wanted, "under account"
[i.e., if rations from the existing scant store were served out
equally] they should starve for want of food if all the company
should return home in the ship. Philip Staffe went out of the ship
of his own accord, for the love he bare to the said Hudson, who was
thrust out of the ship. Grene, with 11 or 12 more of the company,
sailed away with the Discovery, leaving Hudson and the rest in the
shallop in the month of June in the ice. What became of them he
knows not. He was lame in his legs at th