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Transcription

To the 10th hee saith that the Shipp the Sarah at the tyme of her
seizure was in this deponents judgment well worth seaven hundred
pounds sterling And the freight of her for the voyage wherein shee was
taken would in this deponents Judgment have amounted to sixe hundred
pounds sterling or thereabouts And her mens wages for the sayd voyage
would (in this deponents Judgement) have amounted to seaven hundred
pounds sterling at the least And as touching the value of the Rapahannack
for that hee was a prisoner at her seizure and was not afterwards on board
her hee cannot depose thereto And further was not afterwards on board
her hee cannot depose thereto And further hee cannot depose/

To the 11th hee saith that the sayd Scroll after hee had soe seized the
Shipps the Rapahannacke and Sarah and their ladeing did alsoe seize two other
English shipps and their ladeings and then at Cape Lopez the sayd Scroll
and Company did give the Shipp Sarah to this deponent and mr Thomas
Thompson who was one of the Owners of her to carrie the companyes of all the
fower English shipps soe taken for England, but tooke out first, all her
provisions of virtualls, and most of her cables and Anchors and other tackle which
was of worth, and gave them only a few dutch beanes and two barells of beefe
and thirty stock fish and about five hundred weight of bread which was very badd
and old, and soe turned them loose at Cape Lopez to shift for them selves,
of all necessaries for soe long a passage and soe great a Company as all those
fower conisgned companyes were, they put in at the Island of Saint Thomas
about threescore leagues from Cape Lopez, and there the sayd Thompson
trucked a way the Shipp Sarah for an other smaller shipp and
for provisions to store them for their Journey, and some small quantitie of
money and goods, wherewith they made a shifte to gett to the Barbadoes where
this deponent and others gott passage for England, which if they had not done
this deponent saith they might have perished for want of victualls (that [?be]
given them by the dutch being little and very badd) And further hee
cannot depose./

To the 12th hee saith hee cannot depose otherwise then that hee beleeveth
the Owner of the Rapahannack and her Master and Mariners were very
much damnified by meanes of the seizure.

To the 13th hee saith that the arlate Beane and Company by
reason of the losse of the shipp the Sarah and her freight have (in
this deponents judgment and estimate) suffered losse and dammage to
the summe of thirteene hundred pounds sterling at the least And the sayd
LLewellin and company by losse of the Negroes Elephants teeth and
other goods on board her for his Accompt have in this deponents Judgment
and estimate suffered eight thousand pounds sterling losse and dammage And
And saith this deponent being Master and Supracargo for his part
suffered losse and dammage in the losse of her eight Negroes Elephants teeth and other
goods and [?allsoe] bookes cloathes and Instruments the summe of fowerteene hundred
pounds sterling And that the Company of the sayd shipp by losse of their
Wages cloathes books sea Instruments and private Adventures were in this
deponents Judgment and estimate damnified the summe of twelve hundred
pounds of like money And further hee cannot depose.

Arthur Perkins [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]