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Transcription

Companie by reason of the losse of their said wages money goods
and cloathes to them belonging have sustained losse and dammage to
the summe or value of one thousand pounds sterling as aforesaid
And further hee saith hee cannot depose

Repeated before the Judges in Court:-

Anthony [?ffels] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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March the 16th 1656:

Rp. 4.us

Arthur Perkins of Wapping in the County of
Middlesex Mariner Late Master of the said shipp the
Sarah, aged 44 yeares or thereabouts a Wittnesse
sworne and examined upon the said Allegation saith
as followeth.

To the first article of the sayd allegation hee saith hee well knoweth the shipp
Sarah arlate and hath knoweth her ever since about the beginning of January
one thousand sixe hundred fiftie five about which tyme and during all the tyme
arlate the Arlate humfrey Beane and company were and at present
ought to be the true and lawfull Owners and Proprietors of the shipp the
Sara aforesayd and of his tackle and furniture this hee the better knoweth for
that Mr Robert LLewellin [?sole] freighter of the sayd shipp for voyage
in question did in the sayd moneth of January 1656 hire the sayd shipp of the
sayd Beane (as being one of his Owners) for the sayd voyage and for that
hee this deponent was imployed by the sayd LLewellin to goe and did goe both
Master and Supracargo of the sayd shipp the sayd voyage which was from London
to Guinney and thence to Barbados or Virginia and thence to London again And
further to this article hee cannot depose.

To the second hee saith hee cannot of his certayne knowledge depose any
thing thereto for that hee never sawe the shipp Ropahannack from a little
before her departure from London upon the voyage in question till hee sawe her
seizure neere Cape Lopez Gonzalees in Guinney.

To the 3 article hee saith hee goeing Master and Supracargo of the Sarah as aforesayd
thereby well knoweth that the sayd Mr LLewellin in having at London hyred the sayd
shipp for the sayd shipp voyage and taken to freight did there lade and putt aboard her
a Cargo of goods for his own Account consisting of Copper Barrs, [?Baroges] Beades Iron and East
India stuffs and other goods to be there transported to Guinney and there bartered away
for Negroes and Elephants teeth and other Commodities, and the Negroes soe gott in
barter to bee thence carried to Virginia or Barbadoes and there to bee sold and
disposed of for the use and accompt of the sayd Robert LLewillin, with with which goods so laden there aboard
bartered away at Guinney in like manner for Negroes and Elephants teeth to bee
sold in manner aforesayd, the sayd shipp sett sayle from Gravesend (bound for
Guinney) the first day of ffebruary one thousand sixe hundred fifty five, and
arrived in safely at Guinnney about the latter end of Aprill or beginning
of May one thousand sixe hundred fifty five, the premisses hee the better knoweth
for the reasons aforesayd.

To the 4th article of the sayd allegation hee saith that after the arrivall of the sayd
shipp at Guinney hee this deponent did as Master and Supracargoe or ffactor
for the sayd voyage, traffique there and barter away the greatest part of
the sayd outward ladeing, for Negroes and Elephants teeth, and did procure
for the goods bartered away, one hundred and fifty Negroes, and eight hundred
pounds worth sterling money of Elephants teeth, videlicet one hundred fiftie two Negroes
and five hundred pounds worth of Elephants teeth for Account of the sayd LLewellin
and