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thinke of any [?proportion] to lade silver … thinke of any [?proportion] to lade silver, that hee carried a hundred peeces of<br />
eight or [?oare] under his arme and through the streete and out at the gate at<br />
Cadiz and soe went aboard.
To the 15 hee saith hee hath three thousand peeces of eight or betwixt 2500<br />
and 3000 or thereabouts aboard for accompt of himselfe and shipps owners<br />
being money prceeding of freight and some goods of his for which there is<br />
noe bill of lading, nor is the same amongest the other silver, but was lying<br />
in this deponents chest, and that this deponent hath about 40 barrells<br />
of figgs and his mariners about 20 or 30 barrells, and hee and they<br />
have 8 or 9 pipes of wine and 50 or 60 thousand lemmons aboard<br />
for their owne accompt for which there is alsoe noe bill, and<br />
for all the rest hee signed bills.
To the 16th negatively.
To the 17th hee beleeveth that the silver and other goods aboard laden for merchants accounts<br />
are the retourne or proceede of goods caried to Cadiz in the said shipp,<br />
saving the wooll, which is laden by another as appeareth by the dispatches<br />
for the same, and that the same were laden by or from such to whom<br />
hee brought the said goods from Hamburgh.
To the 18 hee saith his company at the time of seizure<br />
consisted of 24 eaters or thereabouts, all Hamburgers, and most<br />
of them there married or in the townes thereabouts under the same,<br />
and came all aboard at Hamburgh, and otherwise negatively.
[?XXXX XXXXXX] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
Repeated before doctor Clark and Colonel Cock.
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On the behalfe of John Bushell Captaine Thomas}<br />
[?XX] and others touching their losses by the}<br />
King of Portugall}
'''Thomas Grant''' of London Mariner<br />
aged 46 yeares or thereabouts sworne the<br />
[BLANK IN MANUSCRIPT]<br />
Judges of the high Court of the Admiralty saith and<br />
deposeth
That in or about the moneth of July in the yeare 1650 the shipp ''Lamb'' whereof<br />
this deponent was Captaine or Commander was by order of the Kinge of<br />
Portugall and by his officers at the Vechia together with her ladeing of goods<br />
seized upon and taken away and this deponent and all the English mariners turned<br />
out of her And this deponent saith that at the tyme when the sayd shipp was<br />
seized as aforesayd there were on board the sayd shipp all and singualar the goods<br />
hereafter specified by the Accompt of the respective persons hereafter named That<br />
is to say for the proper Accompt of John Bushell five chests of white sugars<br />
for the proper Accompt of Robert Smith sixteene chests of white sugars, for the proper<br />
Accompt of William Mackadams ffowerteene chests of white sugars For the proper<br />
Accompt of this deponent Thomas Grant one hundred chests of white sugars, All<br />
and singular which aforesayd goods were by the Kings Officers seized upon at the<br />
tyme aforesayd and the Owners utterly deprives thereof and otherwise hee cannot<br />
depose./.otherwise hee cannot<br />
depose./. +
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