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same humphrey, Rowland and John hill and other English merchants and upon the same designe, and came from Newfound land in her company to Porto Port where the said shipp ''swann'' was alsoe seized with the ''hopegood'', and this deponent and the rest of the company of the ''Swann'' imprisoned with the ''hopegoods'' company in the said Castle. To the third Interrogatory hee saith and deposeth that the names of the mariners of the said Captaine hayward in the ''hopegood'' were John ffowler who hath sustained losse and dammage by the said seizure twenty pounds sterling, nathaniell Jay twelve pounds sterling Walter Bickford fifteene pounds, Peter Bartlet 45 ''li'', henry Lande 47 ''li''. Samuel Parnelle 27 ''li'', and Robert Thompson 23 ''li'' 18 ''s''. And the said John hayward the master hath in his estimation sustained losse and dammage by the seizure aforesaid 165 ''li''. And saith that hee this deponent had aboard the said shipp sixe kintalls and three quarters of driefish worth 90 Rialls per kintall, which is all lost to him by the said seizure. And otherwise hee cannot depose. saving the said marriners were detained in the said imprisonment some 10 monethes and some lesse. To the fourth hee saith the said shipp ''hopegood'' was of the burthen of eightie tonns or thereabouts, and that the weare and teare of her was worth 30 ''li'' per month, and soemuch hee conceiveth the said owners to be damnified for every moneth of her being there which was from the 13th of October 1650 to the moneth of ffebruary 1651 old stile which was sixteene monethes or thereabouts, which hee knoweth being sent to help bring her home, and then and there hee sawe that shee was much damnified in her hull with long lying and some of her furniture and rigging wanting. And otherwise hee cannot depose. Peetter ffilmor [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] ****************************** The seaventeenth of August 1654. [CENTRE HEADING] On behalfe of Rowland hill, humphrey} hill and other English merchants owners} of the shipp ''Swann'', Thomas Pitcher master.} '''.j.''' '''John Hayward''' of Wapping Mariner aged 40 yeeres or thereabouts sworne before the right worshipfull doctor Walker and the rest of the Commissioners for the Portugall businesse, and exàmined upon certain Interrogatories saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet. To the first and second Interrogatories hee saith and deposeth that hee well knew the shipp the ''Swann'' interrogated whereof Thomas Pitcher was master at such time as shee was seized by the Portugueses hereafter mentioned, and saith shee then belonged to Rowland hill humphrey hill and John hill and other English merchants of London who were her lawfull Proprietors. And that att Newfound land the said shipp tooke in her full lading of ffish in or about the moneth of August 1650, and departed thense therewith about the end of the said moneth for Port a Port in Portugall where shee arived on the thirteenth of October 1650 with her said lading; and that there shee and her said lading of fish were on the said thirteenth day of October 1650 (old stile) after such her arivall seized and her master and company
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