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laden and taken aboard the sayd shipp the … laden and taken aboard the sayd shipp the ''ffrancis'' to be from thence<br />
transported in the same to the Port of Southampton for the accompt of<br />
the arlate Symon kelsey, William Cole, William Pim[?horne] and Companie<br />
And saith, That the said Wines did cost at the Teneriff 63. duckats<br />
each pipe, which at the rate of 5 ''s''. 6 ''d'' sterling for each duckat (as the<br />
ducats are there usually and ordinarily valewed) doeth amount for each<br />
pipe to 17 ''li'' 6 ''s'' 6 ''d'' sterling so that the whole valew of the said wines<br />
as they originally cost at the buying and ladeing there did and doeth amount<br />
to <u>1126</u> ''li'' 2 ''s'' 4 ''d'' or thereabouts, And saith the said 6 Chests of sugar bought and<br />
laden at the Palma Island did there cost in all the full valew of<br />
142 ''li'' 10 ''s'' sterling at the least, and the said 1200. peeces of 8/8 did and<br />
doe amount to the valew of 240 ''li'' sterling or thereabouts, So that the full valew<br />
of the said goods Merchandizes and silver at such their times and places of<br />
ladeing did at the least amount to 1507 ''li'' 12 ''s'' 6 ''d'' sterling. And saith the<br />
said wines, sugars and peeces of 8/8 were so laden and putt n board<br />
the said shipp at the said Islands respectively by the said William knowles the Master<br />
of the said shipp ''ffrancis'' and by this Examinate, who were joyned in [?Command]<br />
as factors for the said kelsey and Companie. And further hee cannot depose
To the 3d Interrogatorie hee saith, That hee this examinate for the reasons before<br />
expressed well knoweth, That the shipp the ''ffrancis'' interrate was really [?bound]<br />
and designed with the lading before expressed to saile directly from the said<br />
Island of Palma to the Port of Southampton, and accordingly the said shipp<br />
did proceed upon the said Voyage and designe, and that upon the 29th day of<br />
Aprill 1654 old stile, the said shipp being with her said lading in her direct Course<br />
for Southampton was mett with surprized and taken by three dutch[?or]<br />
hollands shipps of warr, who seized the said shipp and her said lading then<br />
aboard her, and brought the same to Vigo in Galicia in the dominions of<br />
the king of Spaine, where the said seizors sold and disposed of the said<br />
shipp and goods without giveing any recompense or satisfaction to the said<br />
kelsey and Companie, and saith that the said kelseys goods in Consortshipp with<br />
the rest of his Companie concerned in the said Cargo were aboard at the time<br />
of the said seizure and sold and disposed of by the dutch as aforesaid, and the said<br />
kelsey and Companie were thereby utterly deprived thereof, And further hee cannot depose<br />
saving that the said shipp the ''ffrancis'' did depart from the said Island of<br />
Palma about the 9th or 10th of Aprill last, as this deponent now remembreth, and<br />
was seized as aforesaid upon the 29th of the said moneth. Th epremisses<br />
hee well knoweth by sadd experience being aboard the said shipp ''ffrancis''<br />
during the said Voyage in the quality aforesaid, and being brought up by the<br />
said dutch seizors to Viego in Galicia aforesaid, where hee saw the said<br />
(shipp where hee saw the said<br />
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