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tyme according to the value agreed upon with them at London, which offer the sayd shipps Company did accept and the sayd Ewens in persuance of such his offer and promises did pay unto his sayd Company eight moneths pay according to the first agreement made at London and did promise and agree to pay them an addition of five shillings in the pound per moneth for the future over and above the rates formerly agreed on which promise of addition the Company did agree to and promised to proceede on the sayd Brazeele voyage and the sayd ffosse Tucker howgate this deponent and the rest of the shipps Company did thereupon proceede upon the sayd voyage after the sayd new contract and went to Brazeele and there delivered their outwards ladeing and reladed other goods and came back therewith to Lisbon and alsoe discharged a good part thereof there in which service they continued after the sayd new agreement about twenty moneths, only hee saith that while they were at the Brazeele the Portugeses in whose service the ''Scipio'' and other English shipps were, did remove out of the ''Scipio'' the sayd Ewens the Master and the sayd ffosse Tucker and Howgate and this deponent and divers others of the ''Scipio'' her Company and put them aboard Portuguese shipps to serve in the homeward Voyage and put Portugeses aboard the ''Scipio'' to serve in their roomes, as they did also to other English shipps that went the sayd voyage, which they did as this deponent beleeveth to secure their goods laden aboard the English shipps that the English might be thereby prevented of running away with them And further hee cannot depose./ To the 8th and 9th hee saith hee referreth him selfe to the Registry of this Court and to the lawe And further cannot depose./ To the 10th hee saith the arlate Ewens was and is a subiect of this Common Wealth and Subiect as hee beleeveth to the authority of this Court./ To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true./ To the Interrogatories./ [CENTRE HEADING] To the first Interrogatorie hee saith hee cannot answere not being present when the persons Interr were hyred nor knoweth at what rates or upon what conditions they were hyred/ To the 2 Interrogatorie hee saith hee was a foremast man of the ''Scipio'' the voyage in question and saith hee was hyred as aforesayd only to goe upon a tradeing voyage from London to the Straights and parts neere thereabouts and then back to London and not to such parts or places as the sayd Ewens should get imployment for And farther hee cannot answere./ To the 3 hee saith that at the tyme Interrate there were five other English shipps beside the ''Scipio'' all which as well as the ''Scipio'' were offered and Did take imployment for Brazeele and goe thither and returne in Company of the ''Scipio'' And saith hee beleeveth if the sayd Ewens had not promised an Augmentation of wages the Company of the Shipe would not have gone the voyage to Brazeele, but saith as afore sayd the sayd Ewans made the sayd promise voluntarily to encourage his company to goe the sayd voyage. And further saving his foegoeing deposition hee cannot answere/ To the 4th hee saith hee was one of the ''Scipio'' her company who refused to proceede on the voyage to Brazeele unlesse his wages first agreed upon were augmented And saith in regard hee know hee was not at first hyred for any such voyage hee would have refused to goe the same if the sayd Ewen had not promised an augmentation as aforesayd/
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