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Transcription

deposition to the Interrogatories ministred on the behalfe of the
sayd Vas da Britto hee cannot depose./

To the last hee saith hee was informed by some at Sally (at
the tyme hee this deponent was in Captivity there as a Slave)
that the sayd shipp was sold to certayne Moores but for how much
hee knoweth not nor knoweth hee what to estimate the sayd shipp
and her ladeing soe taken at, And further cannot answere/

Repeated before Doctor Godolphin/with his
precontest/in both Causes

Joseph Soon [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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The 10th of March 1656/ [CENTRE HEADING]

Cowse against Keene}
Suckley Smith}

Examined on an allegation given in the 31th of May
1655 on the behalfe of the sayd Cowse/

(8:us

Humfrey Henchman of London Merchant
twenty three yeares or thereabouts a wittness sworne
and examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet./

To the 7th article of the sayd allegation and the first schedule therein
mentioned hee saith that hee this deponent in the yeare and one thousand
five hundred fiftie fower was a ffactor in the island of Palma for Mr William
Bradick of London Merchant and did for his Account then and there severall goods
of the severall species in the sayd schedule specified at the prices mentioned
in the sayd schedule and thereby the better knoweth that goods of the like
kind as are specified in the sayd schedule were there usually at the tyme arlate then sold
for the severall rates schedulate, but for that hee sawe not the goods schedulate
and thereby knoweth not the finenesse or goodness of them there being much
difference in the goodnes of linnens and pipes staves and ffloramides being
part of the goods schedulate hee cannot positively depose at what price
they might then have there bin sold but saith (if they were of equall
goodnesse with these by him sold they might and would have yeilded [?the GUTTER]
prizes schedulate And saith that for the reasons aforesayd hee knoweth the Customes
Commission and other charges at Palma did about the tyme arlate and
doe usually amount to about tenn pounds sterling per Cent and not
above And further for the reasons aforesayd as alsoe for that hee knoweth
not what rate the severall kindes schedulate did or doe yeild at Saint
Lucar, nor sawe the goods schedulate hee cannot depose./

To the 8th article hee saith that hee being the tyme aforesayd a factor
resident at the Island of Palma and by that meanes having [?conferense GUTTER]
there with the ffactor of the arlate James Cowse thereby knoweth that the sayd
Cowse his ffactor in the tyme aforesayd did tell this deponent that the sayd
James Cowse had hyred tonnage for threescore tonnes of goods to
be sent from Palma to London in the John and Elizabeth whereof
the arlate Edward Keene was Master and that hee had the sayd
Cowse his ffactor did expect the arrivall of the sayd shipp there and
provided a quantitie of pipes of wines to relade on the tonnage taken in
her for London, and this deponent same the wines soe provided but att
present