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That the sayd shipp ''Sampson'' was at Bah … That the sayd shipp ''Sampson'' was at Bahia in Brazeele<br />
for goods being then in port there by the authority of the Kinge<br />
of Portugall in or about the moneth of May 1649 as alsoe<br />
all her ladeing of sugars And that there were aboard her<br />
at the tyme of the sayd seizure for the proper Accompt of<br />
the sayd John Lynes seaventy chests and tenn fetches of<br />
sugar sixe of which were Muscovadoes and the rest all white<br />
All which sugars hee saith were seized by the sayd Kings<br />
officers, this hee knoweth to be true for that hee this<br />
deponent was then Gunner under the sayd Captaine<br />
and present and sawe the sayd seizure whereby the sayd<br />
Captaine and Company were put out of possession of the sayd<br />
shipp and ladeing and were most of them imprisoned<br />
by the sayd Kings authority upon the sayd seizure And<br />
alsoe saith that afterwards the sayd shipp remayning under the<br />
sayd seizure with the sayd ladeing of sugars on board her was<br />
carried from Bahia de Todos los Santos to Rio de Janero in<br />
Brazeele where in the moneth of November in the yeare 1650 or<br />
thereabouts shee arrived And after such her arrivall at Rio<br />
de Janero aforesayd all her ladeing of sugars (amongst which<br />
were the sayd sugars of the sayd Captaine Lynes) were unladen<br />
and taken out of her and the sayd shipp haled upon the<br />
Careene by the Portugueses, and that after the sayd takeing<br />
out of the sayd ladeing divers of the sugars belonging to the sayd<br />
John Lynes (namely thirty chests) were sold and disposed of by the<br />
Portugueses and the sayd Lynes thereby thereof deprived which hee<br />
alsoe knoweth being there alsoe present and seeing the same soe<br />
donne. And saith that afterwards the sayd shipp was at<br />
Rio de Janero reladen and the greatest part of the sayd former<br />
ladeing of sugars put againe aboard her and then shee departed<br />
thence for Lisbone (shee continuing under the sayd sequestration<br />
or seizure) where shee arrived the 29th of November 1651<br />
this deponent goeing in her And after her sayd arrivall<br />
at Lisbone all her sayd ladeing brought from Rio de<br />
Janero
[THE FOLLOWING TEXT WRITTEN SIDEWAYS IN LEFT MARGIN at 90 DEGREED IN SMALL SCRIPT WITH A THICK NIB]<br />
Janero was taken out and put into the Alfandigo or Customs house of the sayd Kinge of this deponents sight and knowledge saith that afterwards videlicet about a moneth<br />
after such her arrivall at Lisbone the generall sequestration of the goods of the English being released, there were 45 and noe more of the sayd Captaine Lynes his sugars<br />
restored unto him the sayd Captaine being five Muscavados and forty chests white and all the residue of his sayd sugars being thirty chests namely 29 whites and one<br />
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chest Muscovado were disposed of or detayned by the sayd Kings authority and Officers and hee the sayd Lynes utterly deprived thereof And that at<br />
the tyme of the aforesaid seizure there were taken awaye from the sayd Captaine Lynes by the sayd Kings officers clothes books Instruments plate and other necessaries to the valew of two hundred<br />
and fifty pounds sterling And that the sayd Captaine Lynes did expend for the necessary charges of himselfe and his Mariners being thirty in number at least, at Brazeele and in the passage to Lisbone the<br />
summe of two hundred pounds sterling as this deponent verily beleeveth, and that hee did likewise so expend in necessarie charges for himselfe, and the sayd 30 Mariners being<br />
deteyned at Lisbon by the sayd Kings order one whole yeere the summe of three hundred pounds sterling as this deponent verily beleeveth and is perswaded in his conscience/
Roger Robertes [SIGNATURE, LH MARGIN, AT 90 DEGREES]rtes [SIGNATURE, LH MARGIN, AT 90 DEGREES] +
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