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To the third hee saith that the fitting an … To the third hee saith that the fitting and setting forth of the said shipp on the<br />
said voyage with victualls and other necessaries and provisions cost the said<br />
owners at Lisbone the summe of two thousand six hundred fiftie seaven mil<br />
five hundred eightie eight Rès, which hee knoweth because hee this deponent on<br />
behalfe of the said owners disbursed the most part of the said money, and<br />
was acquainted with the laying out of the rest, and the marking up of the<br />
accompt thereupon being the accompt nowe showed unto him, which was<br />
made up betwixt this deponent and Abraham Lanford Purser of the<br />
said shipp, who delivered the same (being of his owne handwriting) to<br />
this deponent to bring hense to the owners.
[LH MARGIN]<br />
[GUTEER ?XXX] account delivered to}<br />
Mr John Bushell}<br />
to carry in to the Commissioners}<br />
[GUTTER ?39th Aug: 1654}
To the fourth Interrogatorie hee saith and deposeth that in and for<br />
all the monethes aforesaid of the yeare 1650 Prince Rupert was in the port of<br />
Lisbone, and was there protected by the king of Portugall: and that the<br />
said shipp the ''Successe'' in the moneth of May aforesaid departing out of<br />
the said port on the foresaid voyage, was by Generall Blake (who lay<br />
with out with the Parliaments fleete of this Commonwealth) staid and<br />
ordered to serve in the said fleete upon the coast of Portugall against the said<br />
Prince and mariners of this Commonwealth, in which service shee was detained<br />
the space of three monethes or neere thereabouts All which hee knoweth being<br />
there and seeing the premisses soe donne, and taking the more notice of<br />
the proceedings and imployment of the said shipp because hee came commander<br />
of her in a voyage from Brazila to Lisbone, where hee put the said<br />
Peachie commander of her, and afterwards came home for England in<br />
her company. And saith the king of Portugall ioyend his fleete to the<br />
fleete of the said Prince to fight against the fleete of this commonwealth,<br />
and was thereby the cause of the overthrowe of the said voyage.
To the fifth hee saith the said fleete of this commonwealth departing<br />
homewards from the coasts of Portugall, brought the said shipp the<br />
''Successe'' and her said lading to this port, and here her said cargo soe<br />
laden for the accompt of the Bulsa was confiscated, which hee knoweth<br />
because hee came home in her companie, and otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the sixth hee saith that the said shipp after her said hiring by the<br />
said Bulso for the said voyage to Brazeela lay three monethes or thereabouts<br />
in the said port of Lisbone to receave and take in her said ladeing of this<br />
deponents sight and knowledge. And otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the 7th hee saith the said shipp was of the burthen of three hundred<br />
tunns and had 24 gunnes in her, and deserved well an hundred<br />
pounds per moneth for the weare and teare of her hull alone, without<br />
victualls or wages, and after that rate this deponent hath let her<br />
hull alone, and with victualls and wages hee hath let her for 150 ''li'' per<br />
moneth in marchants imployment, wherein shee hath had but few men,<br />
but in the [?Portugalls] service in warlike imployment shee hath bin letten for<br />
victualls weare and teare and wages at 300 ''li'' per moneth. And<br />
saith shee was the time aforesaid of her being at Lisbone a stronge and<br />
tight shipp.
Toa stronge and<br />
tight shipp.
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