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merchants goods were made by the kinge of … merchants goods were made by the kinge of Portugall and [?divers GUTTER]<br />
of by the said kings officers and soe lost to the said Mr fflower, for hee<br />
saith hee this deponent never received the same, a nor [?could GUTTER]<br />
hee finde it, when hee went to seeke for the same after the release<br />
of the Generall sequestration, besides hee saith hee hath a certificate<br />
(which was delivered him by command of the Provador) of the receipt<br />
of the said nine bales or parcells into the Alfandego, and another<br />
certificate of all such goods as hee this deponent dispatched thence,<br />
in which last certificate the said bale of fustians (not being dispatched<br />
by this deponent) is not mentioned. And otherwise hee cannot<br />
depose saving that the said bale was there worth (according to the price then this<br />
deponent sold other of the same fustians that came therewith)
Jno Bushell [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
and were of the same sort 126 mil Res or thereabouts, cleare of all chardges and soe much hee<br />
conceiveth the said Mr fflower to be damnified<br />
by the said losse.
Jno. Bushell [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 29th of August 1654
On the behalfe of John Bushell merchant and}<br />
his imployers touching dammadges sustained}<br />
by the king of Portugall in debts owing to them}<br />
in Lisbone and other parts of his dominion}<br />
at the time of the Generall sequestration.}
'''John Bushell''' of London merchant<br />
aged 37 yeeres or thereabouts sworne<br />
before the right worshipfull the Commissioners<br />
appointed in the Portugall businesse<br />
and examined upon certain Interrogatories<br />
saith and deposeth by vertue of his<br />
oath as followeth.
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith and deposeth that hee this deponent<br />
was resident in Lisbone in the yeeres 1649. 1650. 1651 and 1652, in<br />
and during which space hee was imployed and intrusted by diverse<br />
English merchants as their factor, and had greate imployment from<br />
them in the way of factorage, and many and greate quantities of<br />
goods wares and merchandizes and of greate values were sent unto him<br />
by them and intrusted in his hands, and had likewise goods to a<br />
considerable valew for his owne accompt./
To the second and third Interrogatories hee saith that in the yeeres 1650 and 1651<br />
hee this deponent was at Lisbone kept in prison and under restraint<br />
by order of the said king eighteene monethes and upwards, at and<br />
during which time hee had sundrie debts owing unto him (for accompt<br />
of himselfe and imployers) by diverse merchants and others dwelling<br />
in Lisbone and other parts of the king of Portugalls dominion, (but<br />
especially in Lisbone) to the valewe of twenty thousand mil Res or<br />
thereabouts; And that upon this deponents seizure and imprisonment<br />
of this deponents person the said debts and summes were sequestred, and<br />
continued under the said sequestracon about eighteen monethes.<br />
And saith that many<br />
of the debts (which at the time of the first making of the said<br />
sequestration were reputed good) became bad and the persons owing them failed<br />
and became insolvent, and many of them [XXXX XXXXX XXXXX] then that the said sequestration was the cause thereof and all this deponents writings, bookes and<br />
papers being alsoe seized and taken away by the said kings officers, many of his bills for<br />
many of the said debts were embeazeld and lost during this deponents imprisonment, and others<br />
of the said debtors tooke that occasion to [?denie] payment and others died And saith that the Roll<br />
or schedule hereunto annexed and showed unto him at the time of his examination<br />
contayneth
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containeth the severall debtors and debts which are become insolvent and bad and the names<br />
of such as have failed and of such as denie payment, and of such whose bills are lost, and the<br />
whole dammadge of the said losse in debts occasioned by the said sequestration, and saith the contents<br />
of the said schedule were and are true, and hee referreth himself thereof, and<br />
deposeth it to be made and taken as part of this his deposition. And saith that the<br />
greatest part of the said debts belonge to this deponents imployers or principalls.<br />
the totall summe of the said list- 3321[?24] 415.
Jno. Bushell [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]4] 415.
Jno. Bushell [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] +
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