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after that rate videlicet att 12000 Crowne … after that rate videlicet att 12000 Crownes the Portugalls themselves<br />
did estimate and apprize her att Angola before she served as a man of warr aforesayd of this deponents knowledge<br />
And further deposeth not.
To the 10th article he saith It is the Custome of Angola, for every master<br />
of a shipp that takes in Negroes there to pay or engage to pay<br />
the Kings Customes which he is to receive againe att Bahia<br />
of the factors to whom the Negars are ćonsigned, and those Customes<br />
doe arise to four millres per head for every peece of India<br />
that is laden, and there were about 784 negars 917. Negars<br />
laden att Angola for Portugall Aććcompt as aforesayd, but how many<br />
peices of India the same did make he knoweth not ćertainly,<br />
but by the proportion of his this deponents owne negers 24 of<br />
which made 16 peeces of India, he ćonceyveth the sayd<br />
917 negers might amount to about 700 peices of India so as<br />
the Royall Customes due for the same might amount to two<br />
thousand eight hundred millres or thereabouts, And he doth<br />
beleive that the sayd Captaine Hurdidge did exther pay or give good<br />
engagement to pay the sayd Customes before he ćame from<br />
Angola, and was to have received the same att Bahia, but could<br />
not so receyve the same, for that all things there belonging to the<br />
English were seized upon as aforesayd. the premisses he deposeth<br />
to be in manner aforesayd having made diligent enquiry there<br />
and well observed the Custome and manner of those transactions<br />
And further deposeth not.
To the 11th. article he saith there were of this deponents sight laden<br />
att Bahia in the sayd shipp to be transported to Lisbon the severall<br />
goods following att the freight and averidge hereafter sett forth<br />
to say. 940 Cloths and 61 fetches of sugar at 26. millres<br />
per tonne of 54. aroves. and 160 Rees for every [?roafe] for averidge<br />
and 500. Rolls of tobaććo, and five barrells of sucketts, and<br />
216. great plankes and 17 peeces of Jaćaranda wood, the<br />
freight of all which together with the freight and averidge<br />
of the sayd sugars so neere as this deponent ćan estimate the<br />
same according to the publicke bills for freights and averidge<br />
of goods sett forth att Bahia would and did amount to fourteene<br />
thousand three hundred seventy five millres, the benefit<br />
whereof had it not bene for the sayd seizure would have [?redounded]<br />
to the Owners of the sayd shipp. And further deposeth not.
To the 12th article he saith that whilst the sayd shipp lay att Bahia<br />
as aforesayd there was of this deponents sight faire plenty of sugar and so few shipps to transport<br />
it that severall persons who had hired tonnage in the sayd shipp off<br />
and from the Provador or Governour of Bahia did lett out their<br />
sayd tonnage so hired to others and receyved two millres for the<br />
place of each Chest in the tonnage so lett which benefit might<br />
possibly have come to the sayd ffrancis Hurdidge in case he had had<br />
full power of his shipp. and the said ffrancis saith he might have<br />
made 1400 millres proffitt therby. And further deposeth not
Toffitt therby. And further deposeth not
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