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thereabouts, the freight for the same being at
two pence farthing or thereabouts Per lb (according to Charter Partie)
amounting to 6116 lb sterling. The Custome at two pence Per pound
five Per Cents abated, amounting to 5249 li: 1 s: 4 d, and Algiers
duty (being the tenth part of the said Custome) amounted
to 524 li. 18 s. 2 d. which was all the charges that should have
been paid out of the said Pepper, amounting in the whole
to 20277 li. 19 s. 6 d. sterling, which being deducted out of the
foresaid summe of 33152 li . (being the summe the said pepper
would here have produced) there remaines 12874 li , - [?0] s . [XX]
sterling, which summe , the said English Company are
in this deponents estimate damnified by the interruption of the Dutch as aforesaid
and they have also suffered losse in demorage of their
ship (she being forced to stay there longer than she needed to have
done) for twelve moneths at eight pound sterling Per day (?which]
summe the said Company were and are by Charterparty bound to paye
unto her owners) to the value of 2920 li . sterling or thereabouts
so that the whole losse which the said Company have sustained by the
Dutch their hindering the Advice from going into Bantam, and
interrupting her in her trade as aforesaid amounts to the val[?ue]
of about 15794 li . 00 s . 96 d. sterling money. And this deponent fur=
ther saith that had not the Dragon been hindered by the Dutch
as aforesaid, but suffered to goe into Bantam and other places
to take in her lading, she might (being of the burthen aforesaid
and probably would have taken in and brought thence for the
Companies account 448000 lb . of pepper English weight Which
would have yielded the said Company at London (to which port
the same was designed) and produced them at twelve pence [?sterling]
per pound, the summe of twenty two thousand foure hundred
pounds sterling or thereabouts, out of which summe the prime cost of
the said pepper amounting at 3 d. per pounds (the usuall and
current price of pepper then there as this deponent hath credibly
heard) to the summe of 5600 li. sterling. And the freight of the same
at two pence halfe penny (or thereabouts) per pound amounting
to 4666 li. 13 s. 4 d. or thereabouts. And the Custome thereof at
two pence per pound (five per Cent abated) amounting to 3546 [li GUTTER]
13 s. 3 d. And the Algier duty (being the tenth part of the said
Custome) amounting to 354 li. 13 s. 4d. (which are all the Charges that
were to have been paid for the said pepper except some small charges for Cartage and [XXX XX]) amounting [XXX]
to 14168 li. sterling; being abated and deducted there
remains the summe of 8232 li. In which summe (or thereabouts)
he saith the said Company have suffered damage besides other
damage for demorage of the said shipp 12 moneths longer then she
needed to have stayed at seven pounds sterling per diem (being the summe
which the said Company were and are bound by Charter Party to pay to her owners
to the value of 2555 li. sterling so that he judgeth their losse to be
the whole (by meanes of the Dutch their interruption of the Dragon
her trade as aforesaid) 10787 li. sterling or thereabouts. And the [?losse]
they have sustained by the hindrance of both the said ships, [XXXXX GUTTER]
[?XXX] of them in their trade by the Dutch as aforesaid, this deponents estimate at [XXXX]
[?and XXXX] sterling or thereabouts besides the Dishonour redounding to them and the aforesaid [?English]
Nation by the Dutch their domineering over them there at their pleasure, and further cannot [?depose]

Repeated before doctor Godolphin.

= Sam: Sambrooke/ [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]