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And hee moreover deposeth that the said sh … And hee moreover deposeth that the said shipps the ''Advice'' and the ''dragon''<br />
in case they had not bin soe XXXXXverd by the dutch and hindred and<br />
stopped from their trade at Bantam and other parts or those<br />
parts the said voyage, they might and in all probabilities would have brought<br />
home their respective ladings of Pepper, and that the ''Advice'' being of<br />
burthen as aforesaid, they were capable and might and would have taken<br />
in at Bantam (had not the said interruption happened) 11110?40 ''lb'' of Pepper<br />
which (as this deponent hath bin credibly informed) would there have bin<br />
bought and laded at three pence sterling per pound, the expence<br />
two pence per pound (making five per pound) and alsoe one tenth part of the<br />
[XXX?m]e for Algier duty makes the prime cost with charges of<br />
11110?40 ''lb'' of Pepper amount to about 33979 ''li'' - 6 ''s'' - 1 ''d'' sterling, which<br />
Pepper hee saith would here have yeelded and bin worth twelve pence<br />
sterling per pound, which for the said quantitie amounting to about<br />
55552 ''li'' sterling, hee saith that the said Prime cost and the<br />
said charges deducted, there remaineth about 21573 ''li'' - 13 ''s'' - 11 ''d''<br />
sterling, in which summe the said English East India company is<br />
damnified, and further that by demourage of the said shipps<br />
a twelve moneth longer than otherwise they had needed or should have staid (had<br />
not the said abuse and hinderance bin donne by the dutch) at seaven<br />
pounds sterling per diem (according to Charterpartie) for the<br />
''dragon'' amounteth to about 2555 ''li'' and for the ''Advice'' at eight<br />
pounds sterling per diem amounteth to about 2920 ''li'' sterling,<br />
makes the ?arlate dammage of the said English East India<br />
Company by the Premisses in his estimation amount unto the<br />
summe of 27048 ''li'' - 13 ''s'' - 11 ''d'', sterling, besides the dishonour<br />
redounding to the said company, and the whole English nation in the<br />
est[?eeme] of that part of the [?wor]ld seeing the dominion there exercised by<br />
the dutch over the English and their disappointing and disturbting ther<br />
trade at their pleasure, And further hee deposeth not
Repeated before doctor Godolphin.
Jo: XrangXX [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 24th of September 1659
Touching the ''Mayflower'' aforesaid
Examined upon the foresaid allegation.
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'''Samuel Sambrooke''' of London Marchant aged 44<br />
yeeres or therabouts and examined.
To the first second, and the rest of the Articles of the said Allegation<br />
hee saith and deposeth, that he well knoweth the Arlate<br />
William Curtis who was master of the arlate shipp<br />
in question the XXXX and XXXXX, And also saith that in or About ffebruary or March<br />
the yeare of our Lord (according to the account used in England)<br />
one thousand six hundred fifty and seven, the honourable the Governour<br />
and Company of English Merchants trading to East India, [XXXX GUTTER]<br />
and Imployed the said shipp ''Mayflower'' upon a trading voyage from this<br />
Port of London to goe unto Acheen, in the Island of Sumatra<br />
(in the East Indias aforesaid) and there to lade in a lading<br />
ofd there to lade in a lading<br />
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