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necessaries of the value of 160 ''li'' and … necessaries of the value of 160 ''li'' and also the freight of the<br />
merchants goods laden aboard the sayd shipp the voyage in question<br />
amounting to 500 ''li'' sterling which was lost to the foresayd owners<br />
and knoweth the premisses to be true being master of the sayd shipp<br />
the voyage in question and saw all the sayd goods laden, and<br />
knoweth that the same were lost to the rightfull owners thereof<br />
by the meanes of the seizure hereafter declared, And otherwise<br />
he cannot depose saving that the foresayd goods were all laden as<br />
aforesayd to be in the sayd shipp transported from Riga to this Port<br />
of London for the use and accompt aforesayd respectively.
To the 4th hee saith the sayd shipp the ''ffreindshipp'' was an able strong<br />
and stanch shipp and was of the burthen of 300 tonnes or thereabouts<br />
and having 14 gunnes, and was with her tackle furniture and<br />
appurtenances being well provided of all necessaries well worth<br />
the summe of 2200 ''li'' sterling and somuch would have yeelded in<br />
this Port of London or elsewhere, and knoweth that 2100''li''<br />
and upwards was really offered for her a little before the<br />
voyage in question, and that the sayd Owners refused to selle<br />
her att that rate. And further cannot depose.
To the 5th article of the sayd allegation he saith that the sayd shipp in her<br />
Course for London with all her sayd ladingin her putt into the port of<br />
Copenhagen under the Dominions of the King of Denmarke, and<br />
there continued till September 1652 att which tyme she was with<br />
the sayd goods in her stayed arrested or deteyned by the order of<br />
the sayd King so as she could not depart home for England, and<br />
that in the moneth of ffebruary 1652 then next followeing she<br />
was with he sayd lading wholly and absolutely seized into the<br />
hands and possession of the sayd King of Denmarke and by his<br />
Ministers and his order and Authority, and that he this deponent<br />
and his shipsp Company were in an hostile manner by armed men<br />
commanded by the ministers of the sayd King absolutely turned out of<br />
the sayd shipp and dispossest of the sayd goods whereby the same<br />
were and are utterly lost to the true Owners thereof. And otherwise<br />
cannot depose.
To the sixth article of the sayd allegation this deponent saith that by reason of the premisses the foresayd Owners<br />
over and above the dammages aforesaid making to .2832''li''. 5 ''s'' have<br />
suffered dammage in losse of tyme and imployment of their sayd shipp for<br />
15 monethes (att the rate of 80 ''li'' per moneth, the foresaid shipp being well<br />
worth somuch per moneth to be lett) the summe of 1200 ''li'' sterling besides<br />
the use of the foresaid freight amounting to .30. ''li'' sterling. And this deponent<br />
and sayd Mariners besides the losses aforesaid have suffered severall<br />
other dammages, that is to say in necessary expences and dyet att Copenhagen<br />
and home for England 110 ''li'' sterling and this deponent Pilot<br />
and three men more of his said shipps Company have suffered further<br />
in losse of tyme 112 ''li''. over and besides the losse<br />
of the Improvement of their stock, which he saith he cannot<br />
certainly value. And further cannot depose.
Edward Nix[?en] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]ose.
Edward Nix[?en] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] +
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