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were he knoweth not, and also the foresayd salt being 4000
Alquiers
and the sayd ffrancis Hurdidge was to have hee betwixt three and
four millrees per head for freight of the sayd Negroes to Bahia
whither the sayd shipp was bound. And the said ship arrived with
the said salt and Negers att Bahia the 7th day of ffebruary 1651
English Accompt. and as soone as she was come to an Anchor was
then and there seized and taken into the possession of the Ministers
of the King of Portugall together with all the sayd salt and negers
and freight and what soever with was in her or due to her belonging
to the Accompt of the English. And saith there were there
nine hundred and fifty Negers delivered on shoare and landed
out of the said shipp, the particular acccompt of them he saith
he cannot depose saving his subsequent depositions. And saith
the sayd Negers were worth one with another about fiftye
millress per head. for he saith he observed that some of them
for 80. 70 and 60 millrees per head some for 50. 40 and
36 millrees per head or thereabouts. And further deposeth not.

To the 9th he saith the said ship was of the burthen of
three hundred eighty tonn English or 430. Portuguese, and was
worth with her guns being 24. six thousand millrees, and
was valued by the Portugueses themselves att Angola att
12000 Crownes.

To the 10th he saith the foresayd Capt Hurdidge according to the
Custome of the place did pay and satisfy the Royal Customes
for all the sayd Negroes att Angola some in plate money and some
in straw money and some in bills of Exchange, and was to receive
the same att Bahia of and from the factors to whom the sayd
Negroes were consigned, and the sayd money was likewise
seized in the sayd factors hands by the sayd Kings ministers
but the quantitiy of moneyes so payd by the sayd
Captaine and to have bene repayd him upon Portuguese Accompt
he knoweth not onely saith that the sayd Royal Customes att
Anglola did amount to four millrees per head for the sayd
negroes there on board as aforesayd, and so much he well
observed, And further saith not.

To the 11th and 12th he saith that he saw not the goods arlate laden
that for that the Portugalls had put this deponent away from Bahia in another shipp but the usuall freight of goods from Bahya
to Lisboa is 26 millrees per tonne. and averidge for sugars
160 Rees per arove and 54 aroves make a tonne, and Chests
of sugar one with another contayne 25 aroves a peice in
them, and that it is a usuall Custome att Bahia to give
two millrees per chest for the place of sugars to the Captaines of shipps
that receive sugars there on board them; and further knoweth not.

To the 13th he cannot depose saving as aforesayd onely saith
of his observation that every millree layd out in Bahia
yeilded neere upon four millrees and halfe att Lisboa.

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