| Transcription
|
said moneth departed thense with her said … said moneth departed thense with her said lading for Port a Port in Portugall<br />
and arived at Port a Port on the thirteenth day of the moneth of October 1650<br />
old stile, and after her said arivall on the thirteenth day shee and<br />
her said lading were seized by the officers of the kinge of Portugall, and<br />
her master and company all turned out of her and imprisoned in the<br />
castle by the said officers, all which hee knoweth being one of the said company<br />
and going all the voyage in her and being imprisoned with the rest.
To the third Interrogatorie hee saith that the mariners of<br />
the said shipp the ''Swann'' (with the master) consisted of nineteene persons<br />
namely Thomas hart, William hewet, John Osburne, Thomas Cores,<br />
John Gowle, Peter Philmer, William Bennet, Crispin Turpin,<br />
Thomas Bickford, George Alley, John Alley, Robert d[?ier],<br />
Edward Cratey, Robert Buckler; Benedict hallen, George Millar,<br />
Roger Gold and Miles hamlin, and the said master and that this deponent was detained<br />
five monthes under the said imprisonment, and the master and some<br />
of her company tenn monethes and others a lesse time, and they<br />
were and are very damnified thereby and by the said seizure,<br />
and in particular this deponent for losse of eight monethes wages<br />
and fower dayes by the said seizure after 20 ''s'' per moneth (for which<br />
hee was hired) and for losse of his clothes, and in other chardges<br />
is damnified tenn pounds and tenn shillings sterling, besides seaven<br />
kintalls of merchantable fish and one kintall of [?refuse] fish which<br />
hee had aboard and was seized with the shipp, worth (as the<br />
[?loXX] was there solde) the summe of sixteene pounds sterlinge<br />
And otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the fourth Interrogatorie hee saith and deposeth that the said shipp<br />
''Swann'' was of the burthen of one hundred and fiftie tunnes when shee<br />
was soe seized, and that the weare and teare of her was worth<br />
55li per moneth, and that shee lay and was kept under the<br />
said seizure sixteene monethes or thereabouts, namely from<br />
the 13th of October 1650 to the moneth of ffebruary 1651 old<br />
stile, which hee knoweth being in her when shee was seized, and<br />
being sent to fetch her home when shee was released. And<br />
saith that shee was very much damnified with her said<br />
lying, and that in his estimation her owners have suffered<br />
losse and dammage 55li for every moneth that shee soe<br />
lay under the said arrest. And otherwise hee cannot depose.
[?Paattas]: ffillmor [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
[?Paattas]: ffillmor [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] +
|
