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1. On the behalfe of the said Thomas
2. and John Carter. TWO LINES ON LEFT MARGIN IN BRACKET
3. The eleaventh ˹twelveth day of August˺ 1654.
4. Robert Earle of the parish of St. dunstans in the East end
5. London Scrivener, aged 39 yeeres or thereabouts and sworne
6. before the right Worshipfull the Commissioners appointed in the
7. Portugall businesse, and examined on the behalfe of
8. Thomas and John Carter sai upon certaine Interrogatories
9. by them ministred in their claime saith and
10. deposeth the followeth vizt. ABOVE EIGHT LINES ON RIGHT MARGIN
11. To the fifth article Interrogatory hee saith and deposeth by vertue of his oath
12. That having nowe seene and perused the bill of lading for foure
13. drie fatts of fustians laden by William Carter of London merchant aboard the shipp the May flower (Thomas
14. Bell commander) bound from this port for Lisbone dated the ˹6th of July 1640˺ subscribed thus,
15. Thomas Bell, hee saith and deposeth and deposeth that the said Thomas
16. Bell is this deponents brother in lawe, and that this deponent hath bin
17. acquainted with him twenty yeeres last or thereabouts, and hath e seene
18. much of his writing, and many papers or writings written and subscribed with
19. the proper hand of him the said Thomas Bell, and having compared
20. the said subscripcon of the name of the said Thomas Bell, and the
21. rest of the line wherein the same is written, hee is very well assured
22. and confident that the said ˹line and˺ subscripcon is the proper hand writing of him
23. the said Thomas Bell, Commander of the said shipp Mayflower.
24. Robert Earle SIGNATURE ON FAR RIGHT
25.
26. On the behalfe of the Mariners of the
27. shipp the Talbot of London, Joseph Blowe
28. Commander} THREE LINES ON LEFT MARGIN IN BRACKET
29. The 11th of August 1654.
30. Joseph Blowe of London Mariner, late Commander
31. of the said shipp the Talbot aged 49 yeeres
32. or thereabouts, sworne before the right worshipfull
33. the Commissioners, appointed in the Portugall
34. business, saith and deposeth by vertue of his
35. oath. ABOVE SEVEN LINES ON RIGHT MARGIN
36. That the said shipp Talbot was seized at Bahia de Todos os Santos by
37. the Ministers of the king of Portugall in the moneth of August 1650
38. together with the lading of sugars then aboard her, and that the
39. persons hereafter named were then of this deponents company and
40. mariners of the said shipp, and had respectively aboard her for their owne
41. accompts the severall parcells or quantities of sugars hereafter following
42. that is to say, John Clerke this deponents mate had one chest and one
43. feach of sugar, George Blowe another of his mates two chests of sugar
44. William Lucas one chest of sugar, William Bouse one chest of sugar,
45. Thomas Whitney one feach of sugar, James Tabor one chest and
46. one feach of sugar, Thomas Arnold one chest and one feach of sugar
47. John Clerke one chest and one feach of sugar, John Phillips one
48. chest and one feach of sugar, Joh Jonathan daden one feach, Anthony
49. Moore one chest of sugar and Bartholomew Anderson one feach of
50. sugar, and that ˹all˺ the said sugars (which hee saith were all white sugars, were
51. seized with the rest of her lading, and came into the possession of the
52. Portugeses (with the said shipp) who clapped or put three locks or guards
53. upon the hatches, namely LARGE BLOT one for the king, another for the Customes and
54. the third for the Bulse or Brazile company, and soe the said mariners were
55. all FAR RIGHT CORNER</document-end>

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