Philip Staffe, the carpenter, went into the shallop of his own accord, without any compulsion; whether he be dead or alive, or what has become of him, he knoweth not.
No man, either drunk or sober, can report that Hudson and his associates were shot at after they were in the shallop, for there was no such thing done.
He was under the deck, when Henry Hudson was put out of the ship, so that he saw it not, nor knoweth whether he were bound or not, but saith he heard he was pinioned.
Henry Grene, and two or three others, made a motion to turn pirates, and he believes they would have done, if they had lived.
He denieth that he took any ringe out of Hudson's pocket, neither ever saw it except on his finger, nor knoweth what became of it.
Such beds and clothes as were left in the ship, and not taken by Hudson and the rest into the shallop, were brought into England, because they left them behind in the ship.
There was no watchword given, but Grene and the others commanded the said Hudson and the rest into the shallop, and upon that command they went.
He told Sir Thomas Smith the manner how Hudson and the rest went from them, but what Sir Thomas said to their wives he knoweth not.
There was no mutiny, but some discontent, amongst the company; they were not victualled with any abundance of rabbits and partridges all the voyage. He doth not know the handwriting of Widowes, nor hath he seen what he put down in writing.
(Signed) ROBERT BYLETH.