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laden with Pepper: which he sayth she might (having the Queene
of Acheen's leave for the same as aforesaid) and would in all [Probabilitie GUTTER]
have done, had not she been soe hindered by the dutch, and [XXX GUTTER]
she (being of the burthen as aforesaid) could very well have [carr= GUTTER]
ied and brought thence
to EnglXXXX)
would at London (to which XXX XXX Peppers was XXXXX) have yielded and produced) unto the ?said English [XXX GUTTER]
twelve pence per pound weight, amounting to 25088 li sterling
or thereabouts; out of which summe of twenty five thousand eight hundred
eight pounds,. abating the severall charges XXXXX, namely XXX GUTTER
cost of the said Peppers amounting at three pence per pound XXXX
(the usuall price themn current there as this deponent hath then credibly bib
informed per Pound or thereabouts according to exXXXXXXX a mounting to 5226134 lb, the Custome at two pence
Per Pound (5 per Cent abated) amounting to 3972 li - 5 s - X d and
Algiers Duty being the tenth part of the foresaid Custome, amounting
to 397 li - 7 s - 6 d (which was the whole charges due to have been paid
for the said Pepper so to have been brought thither), amounting
in the whole to fifteen thousand eight hundred sixty eight
pounds sixteen shillings and ?ten pence sterling in /this summe the said English East India
Company are in his estimation damnified, and have losse, by meanes of the
Dutch and their interrupting and hindring the Mayflower to
lade in her lading of Pepper at Acheen aforesaid. And hee
saith the said Company have suffered further losse by
demurrage of the Mayflower for twelve moneths at XXX GUTTER
pounds Per Diem (which summe they were and are by Charter partie XXXXX XXXX GUTTER
to her owners) to the summe of two thousand five hundred
fifty five pounds or thereabouts (which [?dammage was [XXX GUTTER]
occasioned by the Interruption aforesaid) so that the [XXX GUTTER]
damage sustained by the said Company by the foresaid [XXXX GUTTER]
amounts to eleven thousand seven hundred seaventy [?foure GUTTER]
pounds sixteen shillings and ten pence sterling or thereabouts besides [XXX GUTTER
pther damages which possibly since have happened and not yet come to the said
Companies knowledge, the said ship being yet ab[?road], and not [XXX GUTTER]
from the said voyage by meanes of her so being interrupted [?in GUTTER]
her intended designe of imployment and besides the [XXXX GUTTER]
affront and dishonor [XXXX] cast not only upon [XXXX XX GUTTER]
of those parts, by the Dutch their domineering [XXX XXX GUTTER
there, and [?curb]ing them at their pleasure. And further deposeth
not./

Repeated before doctor Godolphin.

=Sam: [?Sam]brooke/ [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]