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and allso five hundred Rolls of Tobaććo an … and allso five hundred Rolls of Tobaććo and five barrells of sucketts<br />
which sugar tobacco and sucketts were to pay freight 26. millrees<br />
per tonne of 54. [?aroves] to a tonne, and to pay 160. Rees for every<br />
[?roafe] for averidge, and allso two hundred and sixteene great<br />
plankes and seventeene peećes of Jacaranda wood, which plankes<br />
were to pay two peeces of eight per planck for freight and<br />
the Jacaranda wood was to pay halfe the freight per tonne that the<br />
sugars did; and saith the freight and averidge of all the sayd<br />
goods together att the rates aforesayd did and doth accompt<br />
to fourteene thousand three hundred seventy five Millrees<br />
and upwards, which the sayd owners of the ''Mary and John'' should<br />
have rećeyved and have had the benefit of if the sayd shipp<br />
had not bene seized by the Portugalls as aforesayd, the premisses<br />
he deposeth for that he saw the sayd goods laden, and ćovenanted<br />
for the freight and averidge aforesayd and firmed to some of the bills of<br />
lading accordingly. And further cannot depose./
To the 12th. article he saith that over and besides the freight and averidge<br />
aforesayd there was payd att Bahia for the places of Chests in the<br />
sayd shipp videlicet for 700. places the summe of two millrees<br />
per Chest in ready monex in all 1400. millrees to the Provador<br />
of Bahia, and the Captaines of other shipps then there did<br />
receyve the like summe for the places of Chests in their shipps<br />
and the sayd 1400. millrees in case the sayd shipp had not bene<br />
seized as aforoesaid had and would have come into this deponents<br />
owne hands. and he well saw and observed that the foresayd rate<br />
was really payd at Bahia for the places of Chests as aforesayd<br />
and did himselfe receyve 24. millrees for the places of 12 Chests of<br />
sugar which he without the privity of the provador made [?shift]<br />
to lade there for a Portuguese merchant. And further<br />
deposeth not.
To the 13th article hee saith that the sayd 800 - millrees for the salt<br />
and the 3089. mill. 800. rees for the freight of the sayd<br />
Portugalls negers and the sayd 7155. millrees for the<br />
sayd Owners and this deponents negers, and the Customes for the<br />
sayd Negars which this deponent should have receyved being#
[#] one thousand one<br />
hundred ninety<br />
three mill nine<br />
hundred and twenty<br />
rees discounting<br />
the sayd bills of<br />
exchange<br />
ffran Hurdidg [SIGNATURE, LH MARGIN]
, and the sayd 1400. millrees which this deponent<br />
should have receyved for the places of Chests as aforesayd<br />
which severall summes make in the whole thirteene thousand<br />
sixty five millrees, would have yeelded and produced att<br />
bahia att the rate that sugars were then sold there the number<br />
five hundred and eighty Chests and an halfe of white sugars. which sayd<br />
Chests had bene to and for the use and benefit of this<br />
deponents sayd Owners and himselfe and Company the premisses hee knoweth<br />
and deposeth well observing the price of sugars att Bahia<br />
which in his calculation hath valued att an higher price<br />
than they were usually then and there sold. And further<br />
deposeth not.
To the 14th. article hee saith that the sayd Kings officers did the<br />
tyme aforesayd att Bahia besides the sugars belonging to this deponent<br />
and his Owners as aforesayd seize two and twenty negars<br />
belonging to William Marshall the pilot of the sayd shipplliam Marshall the pilot of the sayd shipp +
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