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And saith that the allegat Pearce and Larg … And saith that the allegat Pearce and Large had one Neger<br />
taken from them by the sayd Portugueses worth<br />
about fifty millres as aforesayd.
To the last he saith that the values of money att Interest<br />
is well worth 6 per Centum per annum, and the foresayd seizure<br />
att Bahia was made the 7th day of ffebruary 1654<br />
English stile as aforesayd.
Recoquit coram Com.rÿs
John Cobb [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The six and twentyeth day of July 1654.
Examined upon the sayd allegation.
'''3.'''
'''William Marshall''' of Kingston upon Hull Mariner<br />
late Pilot of the sayd shipp the ''Mary and John''. aged<br />
thirty five yeares or thereabouts a witnes sworne abefore<br />
the sayd Commission and examined deposeth and<br />
saith as followeth. videlicet.
To the 1. 2. and 3. articles of the sayd allegation This deponent saith that in the<br />
yeares 1648. 1649. 1650. and 1651. the arlate Mr Adams Mr Hollis<br />
and Company all Englishmen were Owners of the sayd shipp the ''Mary''<br />
''and John'', and ffrancis Hurdidge master or Captaine of her, and<br />
she being att Lisbon towards the end of the yeare 1648. the sayd<br />
Captaine Hurdidge obteyned a Commission or License from the King of<br />
Portugall to trade with her att the Madera Angola, and Bahia<br />
in Brazeel and so back againe to Lisboa, and so lett her<br />
out for that voyage, and this deponent bećame Pilot of her, and<br />
in June 1649. the sayd shipp departed from Lisboa, and in April<br />
1650. arrived att Angola in pursuance of the sayd voyage, and then<br />
and there the Governour putt the sayd Hurdidge in prison, and sent out<br />
the sayd shipp to sea in the King of Portugalls service on a warlike<br />
designe and this deponent in her, and kept her in such service<br />
four monethes, but before he so sent her out covenanted with the sayd<br />
Hurdidge to give him six hundred millres per moneth so long as hee<br />
should imploy the sayd shipp for her service, but saith he did not<br />
performe his promise, but payd a good part of the sayd monthly pay<br />
in salt att a very exorbitant price, so as the sayd Captaine Hurdidge<br />
and his Owners in this Examinates judgment who was then upon<br />
the place, did suffer damage by the sayd sayd salt the same being<br />
forced upon him by the sayd Governour to the value of four hundred<br />
millres or thereabouts. And otherwise hee ćannot depose.
To the fourth and fifth articles of the sayd allegation hee saith that the<br />
sayd vessell in the sayd warlike service receyved some dammage<br />
in her Rudder Irons, and otherwise, to a good value of this deponents<br />
sight, the repaire whereof as Captaine Hurdidge told this deponent cost three<br />
hundred millres and 20 dayes tyme to make good. and saith she ranne<br />
[?Corne] to Angola laden with salt which was twenty dayes or thereabouts<br />
in unlading of this deponents perfect remembrance, so as in case the<br />
sayd monethely proportion be to be payd for the same, four hundred millres<br />
aresame, four hundred millres<br />
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