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And then worth and would have yeelded thre … And then worth and would have yeelded three hundred pounds sterling,<br />
which hee knoweth being a seaman and skilled in shipping.
To the eighth hee saith the said Elephants teeth would here have<br />
yielded two shillings or two shillings six pence per pound or thereabouts<br />
and saith hee estimated and conceiveth the losse of the said Peter<br />
and Abraham Cullier and company sustained by the losse said seizure to amount<br />
to the value of five and twenty hundred pounds sterling at the<br />
least. And otherwise being his foregoing deposition he cannot depose.
Repeated before doctor Godolphin.
The marke of the [MARKE] John Jourden [MARKE, RH SIDE]
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The same day. [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined upon the foresaid allegation.
'''Rp. 2.'''
'''Timothy Moyser''' of the parish of St Mary Magdalen<br />
Bermondsey in Southwark Mariner, late Masters<br />
Mate of the said shipp the ''Brotherhood'', aged 30<br />
yeares or thereabouts sworn and examined.
To the first Article hee saith hee well knew and had bin belonging<br />
to the said shipp the ''Brotherhood'' for the space of six moneths next<br />
before her seizure hereunder mentioned: and well knoweth the<br />
producents Peter and Abraham Caullier, who hee saith with their<br />
company were and are all Englishmen and subiects of this Comonwealth<br />
and were the time arlate and when the said shipp was soe seized<br />
her true and lawfull owners and proprietors, and of her tackle and<br />
furniture, and of nintie foure Negro's and of an hundred Elephants<br />
teeth or thereabouts then aboard her and for such commonly accounted,<br />
and as owners set her out on the said voyage, which he knoweth being<br />
masters mate of her, and proceeding on her from this port, whereunto<br />
hee saith shee belonged.
To the second hee saith that within the said time allegate, the said<br />
shipp with the said Negro's and Elephants teeth on board her was and<br />
remained on the coaste of Guiney near Cape Lopus or Lobez<br />
in the power and quiet possession of her then master and<br />
company, all Englishmen and subiects of this Commonwealth,<br />
saving one who was a Frenchman, and shipped at Plimouth in<br />
her outwards proceeding, and that the said Negro's and Elephants teeth<br />
were thence to have bin carried in the said shipp to the Barbada's<br />
for the said producents their account, where the same were to<br />
be delivered for the said account, and the said Negro's there to be<br />
sold and bartered away for sugars for the producents account, and<br />
saith that while they soe remained there the said master and<br />
company were in a quiet and peaceable condition, without doing<br />
or offering any violence to any shipp or company, which he<br />
knoweth being then masters mate of her.
Tonoweth being then masters mate of her.
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