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Transcription

of four hundred tonnes. and upwards. and was well worth
the summe of four thousand eight hundred millrees and
upwards and was by the Portuguese themselves valued
after that rate at Angola att 12000 Crownes each
Crowne being there worth 4s. sterling. And further
deposeth not.

To the 10th article he saith that he this deponent before he came
away from Angola did pay and satisfy the Royall Customes
of all the foresayd Negers receyved into his shipp for
the summe of three thousand two mill 600 rees
in the whole in money, and bills of exchange payable in Bahia
and this
deponent was obliged in his person shipp and goods to
make good the sayd bills, and is not yet discharged from
his sayd security given in
but is still lyable to make good the same and amounting to the
one thousand eight hundred eight mill six hundred and eighty rees. And saith he
was to have receyved the foresayd whole summe of three thousand two mill
six hundred rees of and from the respective merchants in Bahia. to whom the
sayd Negars were to be delivered aććording to their
consignements and dispatches att the rate of four
millrees per peice of India; which rate is made not
by the number of heads
but aććording to the value of the Negars
, or aććording as favour can be
obteyned from the Officers that grant the dispatches
att Angola, where the Current price of a compleat
young and lusty negar, wh[?ich] is a peice of India, is
commonly reckoned att the number of 22 millrees.
And lastly saith that the sayd 3002. mill 600 rees were
likewise seized in the hands of the sayd factors and
never ćame to the hands of this deponent albeit he
still is obliged to satisfy and make good the foresayd bills
to the severall persons to whose benefitt the
same were drawne in manner as aforesayd

To the 11th article he saith that in or about the monethes of May and June
1651. there were laden on board the sayd shipp att Bahia aforesayd by
severall merchants subiects of the king of Portugall nine hundred
and forty Chests most of which were of sugars and some of them Tobaccoes and sixty one fetches of sugar, and

[SEVEN LINES OF NEXT AT NINETY DEGREES IN LH MARGIN - NOT CLEAR WHERE THEY SHOULD BE INSERTED]

1. the sayd 3002 mill 600 rees had bene payd to this deponent there would have come to this deponents hands over and

above the satisfying of the sayd bills of exchange amounting to 1808 mill 680 rees as aforesayd, the summe of eleven
hundred ninety three mill nine hundred and twenty Rees in ready money for accompt of himselfe and his sayd
Owners and Company, and that himselfe ought to be discharged and saved harmlesse by the King of Portugall and his
subjects of and from the sayd bills by having the same delivered up to him or otherwise to have allowance of the sayd whole summe of 3002. mill 600 rees
and then to pay the sayd bills hImselfe

ffrancis Hurdidge [SIGNATURE, LH MARGIN, AT 90 DEGREES]