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Transcription

either have assaulted or beene assaulted by the dutch for the Spanish
doeth not usually tolerate any shipp or shipps of other nations trading to
the West Indies And further hee cannot depose:.

To the eight Article hee saith, That every one of the said 53. or 54
Negroes, which this deponent had on board his said shipp the Rapannack
at the time of the seizure aforesaid, and alsoe the hundred Negroes more which
this deponent intended to have procured with the residue of the said outward
Cargoe would have given and produced in Virginia being the
place to which they were designed, thirty pounds sterling at the
least; this deponent before hee sett forth upon the voiage aforesaid
having here at London been offered 25 li sterling ready more for
each Negroe hee should procure and deliver at Virginia aforesaid
and to have the benefit of the moneys for the whole voiage, which
would have procured rather more then lesse benefitt then that which
is by him predeposed; And further saith, That hee this deponent
verily beleeveth, That the 160 negroes or thereabouts in and on
board the said shipp Sarah at the time of her said surprizall, they
being designed for Viriginia or the Barbadoes, would have yeilded and
produced to the Owners 30 li sterling per head, or the worth thereof
in goods and Commodities of those Countreyes, And this deponent
saith That about the eighteenth or 20th day of december last, this
deponent after the seizure aforesaid being come to the Barbadoes, there
was credibly informed by Mr Giles Thornbury Master of an English
Vessell then newly come in there with Negroes from the parts
of Guinney aforesaid, that hee had sold and disposed of them one
with another for 27. hundred weight of sugar per head, each
hundred being there valewed at five and twenty shillings, which is
more then the summe of him predeposed, And further cannot depose
saving that the Negroes persons, which hee this deponent had soe procured
were all of them lusty young persons and soe hee intended to to
have procured the remaining hundred of Negroes, soe that they
would without any difficulty have produced the valew by him
predeposed and upwards. And further hee cannot depose

To the 9th hee saith, hee knoweth nothing of the contents of this article
further or otherwise then hee hath predeposed, for that hee this
deponent was not at any time aboard the said shipp Sarah, till such
this as the said Scroll and Companie had taken all the goods
and Negroes in question out of the same.

To the 10th Article hee saith, That the said shipp the Rappahannack
being a shipp of the burthen of 220. tunns or thereabouts