Series 3 > Papers relating to the ships and voyages of the company of Scotland trading to Africa and the Indies, 1696-1707

VOYAGE TO MADAGASCAR
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Obligation By the under-officers, mates, and Sailers of the
Ship the Speedy Return for performance of A Voyage
in the said Ship to the Coast of Africa, 1701.
Know All men by these presents that Whereas we the
Severall Subscribing Under officers Mates and Saillers have
Aggreed with Captain Robert Drummond Commander of
the Indian and African Company’s Ship the Speedy Return
to serve under him on board of the said Ship, for a Voyage
intended with God’s permission from hence to the Coast of
Africa and back again in the several Capacities and at the
Monthly Wages annexed to our Respective names, To be
paid us within Forteen Days After the Delivery of the
Cargo in the Company’s Warehouse upon the said Ship
Speedy Returns [Return] To the Port of her Delivery in
Scotland, We therefor each of us for himself do hereby bind
and oblige us in the penalty of One Hundred pounds
Sterling Each to perform the said Voyage And to be
obedient to our said Commander, and all our other Superior
Officers, And if it shall So Happen that any one or more
of us do Desert the said Service before the Performance of
the said Voyage, Then and in that case, We do hereby
Covenant aggree and Declare that any person or persons so
Deserting Shall thereby forfit all right, tittle, claim or
demand which he or they might have had, or can pretend
to have for their wages, Either from the Company, the said
Captain Drummond, or any other person whatsoever, Con¬
senting to the Registration hereof in the books of Council
and Session, or any other Judges’ Court Books Competent
within this Kingdom, that Letters of Horning on Six days’
Charge only and all other Execution necessary may be
Direct hereupon in forme as Effeirs and to that Constitute
Our Procurators etc. In Witness where¬
of (written by James Anderson Servitor to William Arbuckle
merchant in Glasgow) We have hereunto Sett our hands
and Seals at Port Glasgow the Ninteen Day of May one
thousand Seven Hundred and one Years before these
Witnesses, Mr. Thomas Drummond Supra Cargo of the
Brigantine Content, John Vass Merchant In Port Glasgow,
And the said James Anderson.