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are still for the sayd 20 dayes, there bei … are still for the sayd 20 dayes, there being noe allowance made<br />
for the same by the sayd Governour. And further knoweth not.
To the sixth article. he saith the sayd ffrancis Hurdidge was imprisoned<br />
att Angola as aforesayd. And this deponent heard him say that he<br />
had a suite of law causelesly brought against him. and that thereby<br />
and by his impriosnment suffered 300. millres dammage.
To the 7th. and 8th. articles. of the sayd allegation he saith that there<br />
was left in the sayd shipp att Angola a quantity of salt which<br />
was sayd to be 4000 Alquiers, and was putt upon the sayd Captaine<br />
Hurdidge in stead of 800 millres for his freight in the Kings<br />
service as aforesayd; and there were there likewise taken in<br />
about 917. Negars for accompt of Portugall merchants, and<br />
about 184 besides children for English Accompt videlicet the sayd Hurdidges Owners and Imployers besides<br />
24. negars for this deponents accompt. all to be transported<br />
to Bahia in Brasilia And the sayd ffrancis Hurdidge did<br />
contract with the merchants laders for about three millres<br />
and 600 res per head for each negar that<br />
should be landed alive at Bahia, and there were about<br />
seven hundred eighty seven Negars there safely landed for the<br />
aććompt of the sayd Portugall merchants the freight of which<br />
according to the rates aforesayd amounted to 3089. millres<br />
or thereabouts, but the sayd Hurdidge forced this deponent<br />
to pay four millres per head for the freight of his sayd negars.<br />
And saith that the sayd shipp arrived at Bahia and landed her<br />
sayd Negroes there about the seventh day of ffebruary 1650<br />
English stile or 15. february 1651. new stile. and being so arrived the<br />
very same day the sayd shipp freight and negars belonging<br />
to the English with whatsoever else belonging to the English<br />
were there seized by the Ministers of the King of Portugall<br />
and amongst the rest two and twenty of this deponents sayd<br />
Negers which were all landed alive there and about one hundred fifty nine negers<br />
belonging to the sayd Hurdidge and his Owners and imployers and some four<br />
negars belonging to some other of the sayd shipps mariners<br />
all likewise there landed alive. And saith he observed that<br />
most of the sayd Negars for English accompt were sold upwards<br />
of fifty millres per head, and some upward of 60. millres<br />
per head, so as hee saith hee doth verily beleive and doth estimate<br />
that the sayd Negers for English Accompt were one with another<br />
really worth forty five millres per head. so as the Negers<br />
belonging to the sayd Hurdidge, his Owners and Imployers, so<br />
landed and seized att the rates aforesayd were then of the<br />
value arlate att the least. videlicet. seventhousand one hundred<br />
fifty five millres, not aććompting this deponents sayd 22<br />
Negars and sayd Mariners four negars<br />
the premisses he deposeth saving the sayd Negars landed seized and sold in<br />
manner as aforesayd. And further deposeth not.
To the 9th article he saith the foresayd shipp was of the burthen of<br />
four hundred and twenty tonns Portugues or thereabouts and had<br />
twenty four gunnes and was worth six thousand millres, and<br />
afterix thousand millres, and<br />
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