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same humphrey, Rowland and John hill and o … same humphrey, Rowland and John hill and other English merchants<br />
and upon the same designe, and came from Newfound land in her<br />
company to Porto Port where the said shipp ''swann'' was alsoe seized<br />
with the ''hopegood'', and this deponent and the rest of the company of<br />
the ''Swann'' imprisoned with the ''hopegoods'' company in the said Castle.
To the third Interrogatory hee saith and deposeth that the names of<br />
the mariners of the said Captaine hayward in the ''hopegood'' were John<br />
ffowler who hath sustained losse and dammage by the said seizure<br />
twenty pounds sterling, nathaniell Jay twelve pounds sterling<br />
Walter Bickford fifteene pounds, Peter Bartlet 45 ''li'', henry<br />
Lande 47 ''li''. Samuel Parnelle 27 ''li'', and Robert Thompson 23 ''li''<br />
18 ''s''. And the said John hayward the master hath in his estimation<br />
sustained losse and dammage by the seizure aforesaid 165 ''li''. And<br />
saith that hee this deponent had aboard the said shipp sixe kintalls<br />
and three quarters of driefish worth 90 Rialls per kintall, which<br />
is all lost to him by the said seizure. And otherwise hee cannot depose.<br />
saving the said marriners were detained in the said imprisonment some 10 monethes and some lesse.
To the fourth hee saith the said shipp ''hopegood'' was of the<br />
burthen of eightie tonns or thereabouts, and that the weare and<br />
teare of her was worth 30 ''li'' per month, and soemuch hee conceiveth<br />
the said owners to be damnified for every moneth of her being there<br />
which was from the 13th of October 1650 to the moneth of<br />
ffebruary 1651 old stile which was sixteene monethes or thereabouts,<br />
which hee knoweth being sent to help bring her home, and then and there<br />
hee sawe that shee was much damnified in her hull with long lying<br />
and some of her furniture and rigging wanting. And otherwise<br />
hee cannot depose.
Peetter ffilmor [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The seaventeenth of August 1654. [CENTRE HEADING]
On behalfe of Rowland hill, humphrey}<br />
hill and other English merchants owners}<br />
of the shipp ''Swann'', Thomas Pitcher master.}
'''.j.'''
'''John Hayward''' of Wapping Mariner<br />
aged 40 yeeres or thereabouts sworne<br />
before the right worshipfull doctor Walker and<br />
the rest of the Commissioners for the<br />
Portugall businesse, and exàmined upon<br />
certain Interrogatories saith and deposeth as<br />
followeth videlicet.
To the first and second Interrogatories hee saith and deposeth that<br />
hee well knew the shipp the ''Swann'' interrogated whereof Thomas<br />
Pitcher was master at such time as shee was seized by the Portugueses<br />
hereafter mentioned, and saith shee then belonged to Rowland hill<br />
humphrey hill and John hill and other English merchants of London<br />
who were her lawfull Proprietors. And that att Newfound land the<br />
said shipp tooke in her full lading of ffish in or about the moneth of<br />
August 1650, and departed thense therewith about the end of the<br />
said moneth for Port a Port in Portugall where shee arived on the<br />
thirteenth of October 1650 with her said lading; and that there shee<br />
and her said lading of fish were on the said thirteenth day of October<br />
1650 (old stile) after such her arivall seized and her master and<br />
companyzed and her master and<br />
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