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hindered hee estimateth their losse and da … hindered hee estimateth their losse and dammage at one thousand pounds [?or]<br />
more, and that the freighters of the said shipp ''Beniamin'' by<br />
her being soe by the dutch hindered and prevented from taking in the<br />
goods out of the ''Hopefull frigot'', which by that meanes were left<br />
behinde, and losse of market of those that were brought h[?ome]<br />
and deterioration of them by fowle weather and leakines of the<br />
shipp by her comming at such an unseaonable time (occasioned<br />
as aforesaid) and otherwise suffered by the injurie aforesaid<br />
have in his estimation suffered losse and dammage foure thousand<br />
pounds at the least, and further hee cannot depose
The marke of '''WW''' william [?laria.] [MARKE, RH]
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The same day.
Examined upon the foresaid allegation.
'''7.'''
'''Samuel Sambrooke''' of London Merchant, aged<br />
44 yeares or thereabouts sworne and examined.
To the nineteenth article hee saith and deposeth that hee well knoweth<br />
the shipp the ''Endimion'' allegate which the voyage in question was in<br />
the service of the East India companie of England, and saith that shee<br />
being dispatched out of the downes in or about the third of ffebruary<br />
Anno 1655 with order from the said Companie to saile for Bantam<br />
and there to take in her lading of pepper, sugar and other goods<br />
propper for sale at Surat and with the same to proceed for<br />
the said port of Surat, there to take in such goods as were propper<br />
for the Europa markets, and therewith to retourne for England<br />
the said shipp ''Endimion'' arrive (as hee hath bin creibly<br />
informed and as by letters thence hee hath seene) before Bantam<br />
in August 1656, but was not permitted by the dutch to<br />
enter into that port, whereby the designe was wholey frustrated<br />
to the greate dammage of the said companie, whose agent<br />
and the rest of their factors would in all probabilitie have<br />
laded a cargo of pepper and other merchanize upon<br />
the said shipp, which in his conjecture would have amounted<br />
unto about thirtie thousand Rialls of eight, and according<br />
to the Companies order (which hee knoweth they gave) have<br />
dispeeded her for Surat, where they might in their sale<br />
(according to former markets) have produced about fiftie<br />
per cente; which would have amounted to the umme of about<br />
fourtiefivethousan Rialls of eight; which summe if it had<br />
bin invested in goods procurable in and about Surat as<br />
callico's; Indico' and other goods usually retourne thence for<br />
England, might have produced (though in dull markets) when<br />
the shipp had arived here sixtie per cent proffit, which<br />
would have amounted to about seaventie thousand Rialls of<br />
eight, soe that the losse betweene Bantam and Surat [?ha ?bin]<br />
fifteene and Surat [?ha ?bin]<br />
fifteene +
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