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Transcription

The same day Examined upon the sayd allegation [CENTRE HEADING]

2

John Cobb of Rederith in the County of Surrey Mariner
late masters mate of the sayd shipp the Mary and John
aged 36 yeares or thereabouts a witnes sworne
before the foresaid Comissioners and examined
deposeth and saith as followeth.

To the first and second articles of the sayd allegation he saith he know well
the sayd shipp Mary and John whereof ffrancis Hurdidge was Commander
and was masters mate of her for three years and saith that the sayd
Captaine Hurdidge in March 1648 English stile lett out the sayd shipp to
ffreight att Lisboa having obtained a License from the King of Portugall
to goe to Madera, Angola, Bahia thence back to Lisboa, and
that in June 1649 she sett sayle from Lisboa and arrived att Angola
about the beginning of the yeare 1650 and there the Governor
seized the sayd Captaine and ymployed the sayd ship in the King
of Portugalls service, and so kept her in that service for
four monethes during which sayd four monethes this deponent
was master of her and served in her. And further deposeth
not.

To the third fourth fifth and sixth he saith that the Governor
undertook to pay 600 millrees per moneth for the sayd shipps service
but saith he did not performe the same but forced the sayd Captaine Hurdidge
to take salt instead thereof att such rates that the sayd Hurdidges
Owners suffered dammage thereby to the value of three hundred
millrees att the least. And saith that besides the sayd four monethes
twenty three days were spent att Angola before the sayd salt
could be discharged and twenty dayes more in repairing the
dammages done to the said shipp in the King of Portugalls service
her Iron works being broke off from her sterne post and sayd post
splitt and rudder broken off in the sayd service for the making
good of which dammage a good summe of money was expended
but how much he knoweth not, and saith that for the premisses noe
allowance was made by the sayd Governor nor for the damage of
the sayd 43 dayes the value whereof att the rate aforesayd
amounteth to eight hundred millrees and upwards, over and besides
the repaires aforesayd, the which by reason of the extraordinary
dearth of all Commodities and men wages the worke continuing
twenty days and a Millree per day per man being the usuall rate allowed
to Carpenters Calkers Smithes, and other Artificers in that place
did amount to a great value; And saith that the sayd Captaines
detention at Angola for so long tyme videlicet upwards of five
monethes could not Cost him less than three hundred millrees
the premises he deposeth and came to know see and observe by his
being att Angola with the sayd ship master and mate of her as
aforesayd. And further deposeth not.

To the seventh he saith that the sayd shipp being so repaired
receyved on board her att Angola one thousand one hundred and
one Negroes the particular accompt for whom they all
were