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Transcription

Portugall 2 Quire:

The fourth of August 1654

On the behalfe of Thomas Walker}
touching his losses in the Peter and Jane}

Thomas Walker of Mile-end in the County of Middlesex
Mariner, aged fourtie yeeres or thereabouts sworne the day
above said before the right worshipfull the Commissioners in the Portugall
businesse, sitting in the dyning roome of the Doctors
Commons London, saith and deposeth.

That hee this deponent was masters mate of the shipp the Peter and Jane
(George Chappell Commander) at the time of her being at Lisb[?oune],
namely in the summer time of the yeere 1649, at which time hee saith shee
was there seized by the authoritie of the king of Portugall, and her master and
company forcibly put out of her and imprisoned by the said authoritie, and that
hee this deponent one of the said companie was imprisoned from the beginning,
of June to the beginning of August of the said moneth namely for the space of
two monethes and upwards, and was thereby deprived of two monethes wages
which at 4 li. per mensem (according to contract made with him by the said master)
cometh to eight pounds sterling, and that hee spent in that time in necessarie
expences for meate drinke and otherwise twelve pounds sterling. Moreover
that there were taken from him by the said kings officers a hundred pounds
weight of beades worth (at 5 rialls per pound) twelve pounds ten shillings,
sterling and false pearles to the valew of three pounds
and in clothes bookes and Instruments to the valew of twelve pounds sterling,
In the whole 47li- 10s.

Thomas Walles [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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The 8th of August 1654

On the behalfe of mr Carter of London}
touching certain ffustians seized at Lisbone}
by the king of Portugall.}

R .j.

Richard Davies of the parish of St
Michael Bashishaw London Clothmaker
aged 58 yeeres or thereabouts sworne before
the right worshipfull the Commissioners appointed
in the Portugall businesse and examined
upon certaine Interrogatories saith and deposeth
by vertue of his oath.

To the fifth Interrogatorie hee saith and deposeth that in the monethes of
May and June in the yeere 1647 hee this deponent did dresse certaine
fustians for William Carter of London merchant, and on the 26th of the
said moneth of June 1647 did put and cause the same being
two hundred peeces of fustians to be put up into foure drie fatts, which fatts
were nombred 1. 2. 3. 4 and in particular hee saith that there were 34 peeces put
into drie fatt of No.1. whereof 13 woaded and into the fatt No. 2. fiftie peeces whereof 15
were woaded, into the fatt No.3. fiftie six peeces whereof tenn were
woaded, and into the fatt No. 4. sixtie peeces whereof twelve were woaded
and saith the said severall fatts were marked as in the margin [MARKE]

[LH MARGIN]
[The mark consists of a vertical 4, C, U, and W, one on top of the other, with each letter getting bigger from the top down, and with a vertical line drawn through]

by him
the said William Carter and his order, and saith the same were sent
from this deponents house in Bashishaw Street by order of the said
Mr Carter to be carried aboard a shipp, and were to goe (as the said
Mr Carter told this deponent to Lisbone,
And saith the said fustians unwoaded were worth 40 s a peece,
and those woaded worth 45 s a peece, which hee knoweth, because hee dealeth
and hath long dealt in that commoditie as a workeman, and is thereby well
acquainted with the valew thereof.

Richard davies [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]