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Transcription

The 24th of August 1654. [CENTRE HEADING]

On behalfe of the mariners of the shipp}
the Morning Starr, James Bowman commander}

James Bowman of London mariner, late
Commander of the shipp the Morning Starr of
London, aged 34 yeares or thereabouts sworne before
the right Worshipfull the Commissioners in the Portugall
businesse and exámined saith and deposeth as
followeth, videlicet.

That the said shipp the Morning Starr whereof this deponent was
Commander was seized by the authoritie and officers of the king of
Portugall at Lisbone on or about the 12th of June 1650, and this deponent
and company turned and imprisoned in the castle there, and utterly
deprived of the possession thereof; And that two dayes before the said
seizure this deponent paid his men as part of their wages the severall summes of
money mentioned and expressed in the schedule hereunto annexed
which hee saith were lost unto them and expended by their said imprisonment
and turning out of the shipp, and that they lost in clothes and Instruments
and in their adventures which they had aboard the other summes mentioned
in the said schedule, namely John [?Coomes] this deponents mate received
in wages of this deponent and lost the and spent the same by the
said imprisonment fifteene pounds sterling, and in clothes and
Instruments fifteene pounds and adventure 25 li sterling, and soe
all the rest of the persons mentioned in the said schedule, (who
hee saith were all mariners of this deponents companie in the said
shipp) suffered loss respectively in all theise as is expressed in
the said schedule, which schedule hee saith was and is true.

James Bowman [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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The 24th of August 1654. [CENTRE HEADING]

On the behalfe of James Bowman}
the Commander of the Morning starr}
touching his losses at Lisbone.}

. j .

Thomas Hoare of London mariner, late Purser of the
shipp the Morning starr James Bowman master
aged 24 yeares or thereabouts, sworne before the
right Worshipfull the Commissioners appointed in the
Portugall businesse, saith and deposeth by vertue
of his oath

That the said shipp Morning starr whereof James Bowman was commander
was seized at Lisbone by the authoritie and officers of the kinge of
Portugall on or about the 12th of June 1650, and the said James
Bowman, and company turned out of her and imprisoned in and
under which imprisonment hee the said Bowman continued many monethes, and disbursed
severall summes of money for and towards the releife and supplie of
his said company in their said imprisonment, And saith the said
Captaine