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Transcription

Premisses hee Deposeth helping to take in the said Outwards
Lading and Goeing Boatswaine of the said Ship. the
said voyage untill her seizure hereafter mentioned
And further doth not depose, Not knowing the
Vallue of the said Outwards Cargoe./:

To the 3rd. hee saith that the said Outwards Cargoe
being soe put on board the said ship Hopewell
shee did by order of the said Owners set sails
with the same on board her, for the Coast of
Affrica under the Conduct of Arthur Perkins
her master, and saith that in or about the moneth
of June 1658 the said ship safely arrived with
all her said Lading onboard her at Bengall on the
Coast of Affrica. Which hee knowing for that hee
sailed thither in her. And further doth not depose.

To the 4th. hee saith that soone after the arrivall of
the said ship and Lading at Bengall the said Perkins
and about foure of the said Ships Company went
ashore there, to Intreate the Governor of Bengall to let them
take in some fresh water and ffresh victualls, and wood.
Which the said Governor Granted and alsoe did himself
come onboard the said ship, and understanding that
the said ship was to goe to Angola to trade there
did persuade the Master Perkins and Mr Jenkins his man who
went supercargoe of the said ship not to goe to Angola
telling them in the presence of this Deponent and all or
most of the said ships Company that there (meaning
at Bengall) they might have Teeth and Negroes
enough and cheaper then at Angola; and told them
that if they would trade at Bengall hee would give
them a License, or to that effect, which hee soe spake
in the portugueze tongue which this deponent understood.
and at the same time [?the] said Perkins gave the
said Governor a Cabinet and a Case of Stronge
Waters as a present, which this deponent handed out of
the said ship to the said Governor who carried
the same ashore. And upon such the said Governor
License the said Perkins and Company sent all the
said Outwards Lading ashore at Bengall, to be trucked
away for Teeth Negroes, and other Merchanidizes
of that place. And while the said
ship was there trading the said Governor of Bengall
sent a ship to Angola to give Notice of the Hopewell
being at Bengall, and the Governor of Angola called
(John