It seems, so the seaman said, that Captain John Martin was the one
who made the charges against my master, on the night after we set
sail from Martinique, when all the chief men of the company were
met in the great cabin, and he declared that, when it was possible
to do so, meaning after we had come to the land of Virginia, witnesses
should be brought from the other ships to prove the wicked intent.
Then it was that Captain George Kendall declared my master must be
kept a close prisoner until the matter could be disposed of, and
all the others, save Captain Bartholomew Gosnold, agreeing, heavy
irons were put upon him. He was shut up in his sleeping place, having
made no outcry nor attempt to do any harm, save that he declared
himself innocent of wrong doing.
But for Captain Gosnold and Master Hunt, the preacher, I should
not have been permitted to go in and learn if I might do anything
for his comfort. The other leaders declared that my master was a
dangerous man, who should not be allowed to have speech with any
person save themselves, lest he send some message to those who were
said to be concerned with him in the plot.
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