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meaning at Bengall) then hee could at Angola, and
many Arguments to perswade the said Perkins and Company
to Trade there, promising to assist them therein, And
thereupon the said Perkins came to an Anchor [?before GUTTER]
Bengall to trade there, And the said Governour provided
a Warehouse, to put in some of the said ships lading
and the said Perkins sent most of his said Ships [?owne GUTTER]
lading onshore there, and tooke in Elephants Teeth and
Negroes and while hee was thus trading, the Governour
of Bengall gave notice to the Governour of Angola
of the said ships being there, who presently [?manned GUTTER]
and sent two ships of warr, to seize the said shipp and
Lading in her which hee saith they did in a Treacherous
manner, and Carried the said ship and Lading
shee had in her to Angola. And there turned her Company
ashore, And uttterly dispoyled and deprived the Owners
of the said ship and Lading of the same, to their
great losse and prejudice abd overthrowe of the voyage
and designe, which hee deposeth goeing in the said ship
to Bengall, and being onboard her when shee was
seized and Carried to Angola in her where hee
was turned ashore to shift for himselfe And
further, cannot depose./.

To the fifth hee saith that the said Outward Lading Carried
to Bengall in the said Ship. would have produced
400 Negroes. and about tenne Tonns of Elephants Teeth
but the vallue thereof, or howe many hogsheads of
Tobaccoe they would have produced at Virginia hee
knoweth not And further cannot depose./.

To the 6th hee saith that hee is not able to Judge how
much the said Ship and her tackle furniture and provisions
at the said time of seizure were worth./.

To the 7th hee saith that the said Governour of Bengall and
the Governour of Angola (Called John ffernandez de Viera)

were and are both Subjects of the King of Portugall
and this deponent at Angola, and all the said Ships Company
did take their Oathes, that the said Ship was an English
ship, and that shee and her Lading belonged to Englishmen
And saith that there then was and nowe is Peace and
Amity betweene England and Portugall, And further cannot
depose./.

To the 8th hee saith that the Owners of the said ship [XXXX GUTTER]
have suffered great losse and dammage by meanes of the said [??seizure GUTTER]
but how much hee cannot Estimate, And further cannot depose.

To the 9th hee saith that Angola and bengall are both under the
Power of the King of Portugall, And further saving as aforesaid

Richard Shamantt [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]