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all dispossessed and deprived of their sai … all dispossessed and deprived of their said sugars, which were seized by<br />
the said king of Portugalls ministers. All which hee knoweth to be true<br />
because this deponent as commander of the said shipp was acquainted with<br />
the providing and lading the said sugars for the said mariners their account.<br />
and lent most of the money unto them for the buying thereof, and hath<br />
alsoe seene his boatswaines booke mentioning the said particular parcells<br />
to be laden by and for accompt of the said persons, and being aboard<br />
when the said seizure was made, hee verily beleeveth in his conscience that<br />
the said mariners nor any of them over had or recovered any part<br />
of the said sugars, but they are wholly deprived thereof to this<br />
present. And hee further deposeth that the said mariners and the<br />
rest of the said shipps company being in all fourtie men, lost alsoe by that<br />
said seizure in clothes bookes and instruments to the value as hee<br />
verily beleeveth of three hundred pounds sterling.
Joseph: Blowe [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 15th August 1654.
On behalfe of Collins and company}<br />
aforesaid touching ''our lady of Nazareth''}
'''Rp. 2'''
'''Richard Chappell''' of debtford in the County<br />
of kent Mariner, aged 25 yeares or<br />
thereabouts sworne before the said Commissioners<br />
in the Portugall buisinesse and examined<br />
upon the foresaid Interrogatories.
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith hee well knoweth and was<br />
commander of the vessell or Carvell the ''Lady of Nazareth'' interrogated,<br />
and saith that Thomas Collins, henry Bondford and company all of<br />
London Suger marchants were the true and lawfull owners and proprietors thereof and for<br />
such commonly accompted./
To the second hee saith that in the yeare 1650 the said Carvell being<br />
outward bound on a voyage from Lisbona for Brazila, was by the command<br />
of Generall Blake (who was then before the barr of Lisbona with the<br />
Parliament fleete) ordered to attend the said fleete. And by the said<br />
Generall Blake, the said Carvell was in or about the end of May<br />
1650 (old stile) but into Lisbona with a message from him the said<br />
generall, and there the said Carvell with her tackle and furniture and<br />
all belonging unto or were seized on the second of June of the said<br />
yeare by the kinge of Portugalls officers, and this deponent<br />
her master and all his English company and mariners were dispossessed<br />
and turned one of her and imprisoned by the said kings oder, and<br />
this deponent was kept neere six monethes under the said imprisonment<br />
and some of his company were kept above three monethes prisoners<br />
and some longer and some a lesser time, And that by the said seizure<br />
the said Carvell tackle and furniture and are utterly lost to the<br />
said owners, and they utterly deprived thereof, which hee knoweth<br />
being master as aforesaid, and for the other reasons aforegoing And<br />
otherwise hee cannot depose./<br />
otherwise hee cannot depose./ +
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