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Transcription

The 9th day of March 1653

A Busines of Examination of witnesses}
[XXXXXXXXX] perpetuall remembrance of the}
[XXXXXX] hereafter deduced moved}
and prosecuted on behalfe of John}
Gibbs Michael Castial and Nicholas}
Corsellys and Company owners}
of the shipp named the ffreetrade}
of London (whereof the sayd John}
Gibbs was Master) seized by the King}
of Portugall or his Order against}
[XXXX] et cetera Budd}

Examined upon an allegation on the behalfe
of the sayd John Gibbs and others.

Nicholas Williams of Redriffe in the
County of Surrey Mariner sometyme quarter Master
on board the said shipp ffreetrade aged 36 yeares
or thereabouts a witnes sworne and examined
deposeth and saith as followeth. videlicet.

[?Peake dt.]

To the 1. and 2. articles of the said allegation This deponent saith that in the yeares of our
Lord 1648. and 1649. and before and cotinually since the arlate John
Gibbs Michael Castile Nicholas Corsellys and Company all Inhabitants
in or about this Citty of London were and att present are the true and
lawfull Owners of the arlate shipp the free trade of London whereof
the sayd John Gibbs was Master and of her tackle apparell and furniure
and gunns and other provisions belonging unto her and were in
the quiet and peaceable possession of the same, which this deponent
knoweth for that he did belong to the said shipp as one of her
Quartermasters from the first building of her by the foresayd
Owners, And saith that in or about the moneth of June 1649.
aforesd the sayd shipp free trade the said Gibbs then Master and this
deponent quarter Master on board he was and remained in the porte of
Lisbone, and was then and there by the order and authority of
the King of Portugall of the sight of this deponent
and to the use of the said King seized and sequestred and taken into
his service and in his service against the goodwill and likeing
of the sayd Owners and ymployers as a man of warr and for the
Careening of his other shipps for the space of three yeares by
reason whereof the sayd shipp receyved much dammage by worm eating
and otherwise but to what value he knoweth not. And further
cannot depose

To the third and fourth arles of the sayd allegation This deponent saith
That att such tyme as the sayd shipp free trade now seized at Lisbone
as aforesd she was a strong and tight shipp and had bene but
one voyage before att sea from the tyme of her first building
and was of the burthen of .200 tonnes or thereabouts and had
in her sixteene gunnes, and the tackle apparell and furniture
of and belonging unto her were likewise good and new And the
freight of the sayd shipp so provided with gunns and tackle
was well worth the summe of 250: li sterling per moneth And
soe much was and is usually given per moneth for a shipp of her burthen
and goodnes. And he further saith that att such tyme as the
sayd shipp was seized there were in her provisions of victualls.
which were well worth the summe of 170: li sterling. And he saith
that the sayd shipp when she was restored was damnifyed (besides
the forementioned dammage in her hull) in her masts to the value of
10:li sterling. In her Cables and other Cordayge to the value of 40: li sterling.