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finding the Pra'mium very high, did not do … finding the Pra'mium very high, did not doe it, and wrote back unto him<br />
that hee did not doe it for that reason, And afterwards the said henry by lettere<br />
dated at the Barbadas 21 december 1656 directed to this deponent to London<br />
and by this deponent afterwards received, further advised this deponent<br />
touching the said shipp in theise words, Some fourteene dayes<br />
since a shipp from Guiney that brought foure masters of shipps<br />
which had their shipps taken at Cape Lopez by two dutch men of warr<br />
the one 36 guns, the other 18 belonging to Amsterdam, one of<br />
the foure was the shipp I desired you to ensure for mee, which if<br />
not donne, then have I lost twenty foure thousand pounds of sugar<br />
principall, thereof might have bin saved if you had soe pleased. Shee<br />
had aboard 192 Negroes, my eighth part of shipp and cargo would<br />
have produced mee sixtie thousand pounds of sugar, which is a<br />
greate losse to mee, The masters of three<br />
of the shipps goes on Captaine Maniard, who could give you<br />
a full relation of the busines And further saith that in and<br />
by one of the said shipps that soe came from the Barbadas named<br />
the ''Recovery'' and arrived here on friday last, hee this deponent received<br />
two papers of depositions and an account, subscribed and attested<br />
by the hand of the honourable Daniell Searle Governuour (sic) of the Barbada's<br />
whose hand writing this examinate very well knoweth, having bin<br />
very conversant with him there and sawe him<br />
often write his name, which papers hee leaveth to be hereunto annexed<br />
for the further information of this Court or of any whom serve that<br />
are or may be concerned in this busines, and saith hee verily<br />
beleeveth the contents of the said two papers or writings to be true.<br />
And further saith that the said Constant Silvester and henry Culleton<br />
were and are English men and subiects of this Commonwealth, and<br />
soe were and are their company, namely Maior Generall John Culleton,<br />
Mr John Roberts, Mr Thomas Revell, Mr George Paris<br />
John L[XXX]er and Captaine John Manning all whom hee alsoe well knoweth.
Repeated before doctor Godolphin
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