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Transcription

That the sayd shipp Sampson was at Bahia in Brazeele
for goods being then in port there by the authority of the Kinge
of Portugall in or about the moneth of May 1649 as alsoe
all her ladeing of sugars And that there were aboard her
at the tyme of the sayd seizure for the proper Accompt of
the sayd John Lynes seaventy chests and tenn fetches of
sugar sixe of which were Muscovadoes and the rest all white
All which sugars hee saith were seized by the sayd Kings
officers, this hee knoweth to be true for that hee this
deponent was then Gunner under the sayd Captaine
and present and sawe the sayd seizure whereby the sayd
Captaine and Company were put out of possession of the sayd
shipp and ladeing and were most of them imprisoned
by the sayd Kings authority upon the sayd seizure And
alsoe saith that afterwards the sayd shipp remayning under the
sayd seizure with the sayd ladeing of sugars on board her was
carried from Bahia de Todos los Santos to Rio de Janero in
Brazeele where in the moneth of November in the yeare 1650 or
thereabouts shee arrived And after such her arrivall at Rio
de Janero aforesayd all her ladeing of sugars (amongst which
were the sayd sugars of the sayd Captaine Lynes) were unladen
and taken out of her and the sayd shipp haled upon the
Careene by the Portugueses, and that after the sayd takeing
out of the sayd ladeing divers of the sugars belonging to the sayd
John Lynes (namely thirty chests) were sold and disposed of by the
Portugueses and the sayd Lynes thereby thereof deprived which hee
alsoe knoweth being there alsoe present and seeing the same soe
donne. And saith that afterwards the sayd shipp was at
Rio de Janero reladen and the greatest part of the sayd former
ladeing of sugars put againe aboard her and then shee departed
thence for Lisbone (shee continuing under the sayd sequestration
or seizure) where shee arrived the 29th of November 1651
this deponent goeing in her And after her sayd arrivall
at Lisbone all her sayd ladeing brought from Rio de
Janero

[THE FOLLOWING TEXT WRITTEN SIDEWAYS IN LEFT MARGIN at 90 DEGREED IN SMALL SCRIPT WITH A THICK NIB]
Janero was taken out and put into the Alfandigo or Customs house of the sayd Kinge of this deponents sight and knowledge saith that afterwards videlicet about a moneth
after such her arrivall at Lisbone the generall sequestration of the goods of the English being released, there were 45 and noe more of the sayd Captaine Lynes his sugars
restored unto him the sayd Captaine being five Muscavados and forty chests white and all the residue of his sayd sugars being thirty chests namely 29 whites and one
[ONE INTERLINEATION WHICH IS TOO SMALL TO READ]
chest Muscovado were disposed of or detayned by the sayd Kings authority and Officers and hee the sayd Lynes utterly deprived thereof And that at
the tyme of the aforesaid seizure there were taken awaye from the sayd Captaine Lynes by the sayd Kings officers clothes books Instruments plate and other necessaries to the valew of two hundred
and fifty pounds sterling And that the sayd Captaine Lynes did expend for the necessary charges of himselfe and his Mariners being thirty in number at least, at Brazeele and in the passage to Lisbone the
summe of two hundred pounds sterling as this deponent verily beleeveth, and that hee did likewise so expend in necessarie charges for himselfe, and the sayd 30 Mariners being
deteyned at Lisbon by the sayd Kings order one whole yeere the summe of three hundred pounds sterling as this deponent verily beleeveth and is perswaded in his conscience/

Roger Robertes [SIGNATURE, LH MARGIN, AT 90 DEGREES]