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said kings officers upon release of any se … said kings officers upon release of any sequetration did usually and commonly<br />
deduct out of the moneys belonging to the owners of any the English shipps<br />
sequestred a teston a day for the master and halfe a teston a day for each<br />
mariner for their maintenance, which for the master and seaven mariners<br />
comes to 450 Mil Rès per day, and for 159 dayes<br />
to 71 mil 550 Rès; and consequently for the master and foure mariners<br />
for 126 dayes comes to 37 mil 800 Res at 300 Res per day;<br />
And this deponent was severall times at Port a port in Portugall whither the shipp the ''Hopegood'' (John hayward master) lay there under [?pay] and sawe<br />
the master and mariners thereof while they were under the said sequestration<br />
severall times goe and receive after that rate of the kings officers there for their maintenance; and this<br />
deponent at Avairo clearing a shipp of Plimouth called the ''fellowshipp'' from<br />
sequestration, the said kings officers deducted after the rate aforesaid<br />
for the maintenance of her mariners out of the proceeds of goods<br />
sold by the said officers, and paid this deponent the rest to the use of<br />
the owners, and otherwise hee cannot depose.
Nicholas Prijnn [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 29th of August 1654. [CENTRE HEADING]
On the behalfe of Rowland hill, humphrey hill}<br />
and other English marchants, owners of the shipp}<br />
the ''Swann'', Thomas Pitcher master.}
'''3.'''
'''Nicholas Prynn''' of Plimouth<br />
Marchant, aged 30 yeeres or thereabouts<br />
sworne before the right Worshipfull.
To the fifth Interrogatorie hee saith and deposeth that hee this deponent<br />
hath bin a marchant and factor resident at Aveiro in Portugall for theise<br />
seaven yeares last or thereabouts, and was residing in Portugall both<br />
at the time of the Generall sequestration of the English marchants goods<br />
in the yeere 1650 and at the time of the Release of the said sequestration,<br />
and was in that time at Port a port and sawe the shipps the ''Swann''<br />
aforesaid and the shipp ''hopegood'' John Hayward master lie there under the said sequestration<br />
and sawe their masters and mariners severall times goe and receive<br />
for their maintenance of the kinge of Portugalls officers after a teston<br />
a day for the master and halfe a teston a day for each mariner; which<br />
rate hee saith was the constant and ordinary rate allowed to<br />
English masters and mariners by the said kings officers in those parts of Portugall<br />
And when any shipp<br />
came to be cleared they deducted the sume out of the moneys or goods belonging or payable<br />
to the owners, and this deponent clearing the ''ffellowshipp'' of<br />
Plimouth was faine to make allowance accordingly to the said officers,<br />
they deducting after that rate. And saith that after the rate aforesaid,<br />
the allowance for a master and 18 mariners for 159 dayes came to 159 Mil Rès,<br />
and for a master and 6 mariners for 126 dayes to 50 mil 400 Res.<br />
and for 4 dayes more 1 mil 600 Rès.
Nicholas Prÿnn [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] Rès.
Nicholas Prÿnn [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] +
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