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this deponent saith that he was detayned a … this deponent saith that he was detayned and kept prisoner<br />
in Bahia after such time as the arlate hurdidge went away<br />
And therefore cannot depose to the contents of this article
To the sixteenth article of the said allegation he deposeth and<br />
saith that the damage which the said shipps Company<br />
hath susteyned by reason of the said Portaguyses seizure of the said<br />
shipp in clothes and goods and other expenses on shoare<br />
(being putt to their owne shifts after they were putt out of<br />
the said shipp) amount to about five hundred pounds, besides seaven<br />
hundred pounds for their wages And further he cannot<br />
depose saving that he this deponent was detayned prisoner<br />
in Bahia 18 monthes, and after the said shipps departure<br />
and was afterwards in getting home 8 monthes, to this<br />
deponents particular great damage, besides infirmityes of his body<br />
gotten by his long imprisonment, which he fears will stick<br />
to him soe long as he lives, and he beleeves it will<br />
shorten his dayes./
To the 17th article he deposeth and saith that during the forty dayes<br />
time arlate the arlate hurdidge and Company were of his<br />
this deponents knowledge, at a great charge in buying victualls<br />
and other necessaryes for the Negro's that then lay ready on<br />
shoare to bee taken aboard the sayd shipp, And he saith<br />
that he beleiveth the said charges did amount unto 294 Mill<br />
400 Rees And further he cannot depose, not knowing<br />
the certaine Number of the said Negro's.
To the eighteeneth article he deposeth and saith that the said<br />
Officers of the King of Portugall did seaze and take a way<br />
from Thomas Wyse Purser of the said shipp seaven<br />
Oliphant teeth, but the value therof he saith he doth not<br />
certainly know, and from John Cobb Masters=Mate one<br />
Negro, which (if he had sold himselfe) would have yeilded 50ty<br />
Milres, and that they tooke from him this deponent a Negro<br />
a peice of the India, well worth 50ty Millrees<br />
and from Richard Rawle Carpenter a Negro well worth<br />
48 Millrees, and from Robert Pearce and James<br />
Large one Negro well worth 48 Millrees, The premisses<br />
he deposeth because he tooke good notice of the said Negro's<br />
to belong unto the said particular men, and alsoe of the<br />
stature of the said Negro's And further he cannot depose./
To the last he saith that the interest of the sayd summes of<br />
money wherin all or any the persons alsoe said have suffered<br />
damage, was and is really worth sixe ''li'' per Centum<br />
per annum from the time of the said seizure, which was<br />
made by the Portugalls on or about the seaventh of<br />
ffebruary 1651 English stile, And otherwise he deposeth not.
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