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Transcription

And saith that the allegat Pearce and Large had one Neger
taken from them by the sayd Portugueses worth
about fifty millres as aforesayd.

To the last he saith that the values of money att Interest
is well worth 6 per Centum per annum, and the foresayd seizure
att Bahia was made the 7th day of ffebruary 1654
English stile as aforesayd.

Recoquit coram Com.rÿs

John Cobb [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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The six and twentyeth day of July 1654.

Examined upon the sayd allegation.

3.

William Marshall of Kingston upon Hull Mariner
late Pilot of the sayd shipp the Mary and John. aged
thirty five yeares or thereabouts a witnes sworne abefore
the sayd Commission and examined deposeth and
saith as followeth. videlicet.

To the 1. 2. and 3. articles of the sayd allegation This deponent saith that in the
yeares 1648. 1649. 1650. and 1651. the arlate Mr Adams Mr Hollis
and Company all Englishmen were Owners of the sayd shipp the Mary
and John, and ffrancis Hurdidge master or Captaine of her, and
she being att Lisbon towards the end of the yeare 1648. the sayd
Captaine Hurdidge obteyned a Commission or License from the King of
Portugall to trade with her att the Madera Angola, and Bahia
in Brazeel and so back againe to Lisboa, and so lett her
out for that voyage, and this deponent bećame Pilot of her, and
in June 1649. the sayd shipp departed from Lisboa, and in April
1650. arrived att Angola in pursuance of the sayd voyage, and then
and there the Governour putt the sayd Hurdidge in prison, and sent out
the sayd shipp to sea in the King of Portugalls service on a warlike
designe and this deponent in her, and kept her in such service
four monethes, but before he so sent her out covenanted with the sayd
Hurdidge to give him six hundred millres per moneth so long as hee
should imploy the sayd shipp for her service, but saith he did not
performe his promise, but payd a good part of the sayd monthly pay
in salt att a very exorbitant price, so as the sayd Captaine Hurdidge
and his Owners in this Examinates judgment who was then upon
the place, did suffer damage by the sayd sayd salt the same being
forced upon him by the sayd Governour to the value of four hundred
millres or thereabouts. And otherwise hee ćannot depose.

To the fourth and fifth articles of the sayd allegation hee saith that the
sayd vessell in the sayd warlike service receyved some dammage
in her Rudder Irons, and otherwise, to a good value of this deponents
sight, the repaire whereof as Captaine Hurdidge told this deponent cost three
hundred millres and 20 dayes tyme to make good. and saith she ranne
[?Corne] to Angola laden with salt which was twenty dayes or thereabouts
in unlading of this deponents perfect remembrance, so as in case the
sayd monethely proportion be to be payd for the same, four hundred millres
are