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ordinary and market price, and that hee had then aboard her as many
tooles and clothes as were worth 20 li sterling, all which said goods, tooles
and clothes hee saith hee lost by the said seizure, and that over and above
the same hee lost sixteene monthes wages by the said seizure at 42 s per
moneth (at which time hee came home, having
for the most part of the space bin forced to serve under the Portugueses n the service of the
king of Portugall without any pay and scarse having victualls
to sustaine him. Soe that this deponent in goods,
clothes, tooles, and wages by the said seizure hath suffered dammadge and
losse to the summe of 170 li sterling and upwards.

Jacob Bowry [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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The tenth of January 1655. [CENTRE HEADING]

On the behalfe of John}
Evans touching his losse by}
the Portuguesses, in the shipp}
the Susan of Newhaven}

Nathaniel Whitfeild of London gentleman aged
26 yeares or thereabouts sworne before the right
worshipfull John Godolphin doctor of lawes, one of
the Judges of the high Court of the Admiraltie
saith and deposeth by vertue of his oath.

That in the moneth of May 1650 John Evans then of New=
haven in New England set forth to sea the shipp the Susan of the
said port (burthen 60 tonnes or thereabouts, commanded by Robert
Marten and manned with thirteene men) bound for ffiall in
Portugall laden with pipestaves, hoopes, and pease
with order to proceede thense for Virginia, and soe for London;
And saith shee was fitted and victualled accordingly for the said
voyage, which hee knoweth for that hee this deponent was then servant
to the said John Evands at New haven aforesaid, and kept his
accompts, and was specially acquainted with the said shipps soe
setting out and designe; and ssw her proceede thereon from the
said port. And saith that the said shipp comming to ffiall was
there in or about the moneth of August 1650 seized with her
lading by the authoritie of the King of Portugall
and the said John Evans dispoiled thereof, as by severall certificates from ffiall
and the relation of some of the said shipps company this deponent
hath bin informed. And further saith that the hull tackle
furniture and apparrell of the said shipp at the time of such her proceeding from
New haven aforesaid together with her
fitting, furnishing, victualling and charges of setting out
were worth and did amount unto and [?stand]
the said John Evans in the summe of six hundred fiftie foyre pounds
And