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The 13th of June 1659. The Brazill Company of Portugall against} 200 Quintalls of Brazil Wood or} thereabouts brought to this port} in the ''Jonathan and Abigail''} (Thomas Morley Master) and against} John Thacker} Suckley Cheeke} '''Rp.''' Examined upon the Allegation given in by Mr Suckley '''Thomas Morley''' Master of the ship the ''Jonathan and Abigail'' aged 48 yeeres or thereabouts sworne and Examined./: To the first article of the said Allon hee saith and Deposeth that the parcell of Brazil wood arlate (being two Hundred Kintalls, or therabouts which was brought to this Port in the said ship the ''Jonathan'' ''and Abigail'', as Delivered to this Deponent out of a yard at Lisbone, which yard did belong to the Portugall East India Company as this Deponent was then and there Credibly Informed and soe hee verily beleeveth And saith that one John Roles, a Portugueze Broker, whom this Deponent Imployed in procuring of goods to lade onboard the said ship upon freight did procure all the said Brazill Wood, and the said Roles hath often times told this Deponent, about the time of the Lading thereof that the said Wood was to be transported in the said Ship to London for the Account of the Portugall Brazil Company, and soe this Deponent verily beleeveth it was, And saith that the said Roles did procure other goods for this Deponent the said time of this Deponents being there, and saith there was an Agreement made amongst divers of the Merchants that laded goods in the said Ship that there should be a Teston upon each Chest of Sugar, and two Ryalls upon each pipe of Oyle, and after that proportion, for other goods to be Given as a Gratuity to the Convoy that stayed there for the ''Jonathan and Abigail'', and other English ships then there And this Deponent Demanded of the said Roles the like rates for the said Brazill Wood and the other goods that hee procured, and that were laden on board the said Ship, But for the said 200 Quintalls of Brazil Wood the said Roles refused to allow any thing. telling this Deponent that the same did belong to the Brazil Company, and they being a Joint Company would beare their owne Adventures or to that effect, But for the other goods that the sd Roles procured, the said Roles allowed the rates aforesaid, to this Deponent for the said Convoy, And soe much this Deponent beleeveth hee hath acknowledged to severall persons The foresaid Premises hee deposeth, being Master of the said ship aforesaid And further Cannot depose./. To
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