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roughly turned out and imprisoned in the Castle thereby the kinge of
Portuagall offices, and then by the said officers the said seizure was
made. All which hee knoweth to betime, because so hee this deponent
in the shipp the hopegood of london whereof hee was commander and
which belonged to the said Rowland, humphrey and John hilll and other
English marchants came in company and Consortshipp with the said shipp
the Swann from Newfound land and to Porto Porte and on the same
designe, laden with fish, and was also seized, and this deponent
and companie alsoe imprisoned with the said Pitcher and companie.

To the third hee saith that the mariners and company of the said mr
Pitcher in the Swann consited with the master of nineteene persons, namely Thomas hart,
William hewet, John Osburne, Thomas Cores, John Gowle, Peter
Philmer, William Warner, Crispin Turpin, Thomas Bickford
Robert Buckler, Benadict hallen, George Miller, Roger Gold
and Miles hamlin, and that the said Pitcher the master
and some others of his said company continued tenn moneths in
the said imprisonment, and some other a lesser space, and they were
and are much dammified, thereby and by the said seizure,
And as hee beleeveth they and their said master have sustained
damadge thereby to the summe of 500 li sterling at the least
and for the manifestation of the particulars of the said losses and dammage and the

[LH MARGIN]
times of the said persons
imprisonment and the goods
lost and the wages due hee
leeveth a schedule conteyning
an accompt thereof, which hee
saith is true
John Hayward [SIGNATURE, LH MARGIN]

And otherwise hee cannot depose.

To the fourth Interrogatorie hee saith and deposeth that the said
shipp the Swan was of the burthen of 150 tonnes or thereabouts
and had tenn gunes in her namely eight iron and two brasse, and
that the weare and teare of her was worth 55 li per month;
and soe much hee conceiveth the said owners to be dammified
monethly by her said detention
under the said seizure or arrest which was from her said 13th
of October 1650 to the moneth of ffebruary 1651 or thereabouts
being 16 moneths, in which time of lyinge shee was much dammified
in her hull. And otherwise hee cannot depose.

John Hayward [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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The same day [CENTRE HEADING]

2

Peter Philmer of Dartmouth mariner, late one of the
company of the said shipp the Swann, aged 28 yeeres or
thereabouts sworne and examined

To the first Interrogarories hee saith and deposeth that hee well
know and was one of the company of the shipp the Swann Thomas
Pitcher master at such time as shee was seized by the Portugeses and
before. and saith that humphrey hill, Rowland hill and John hill
and other the English marchants were then owners and proprietors
of the said shipp and of her tackle apparell and furniture and for
such commonly accepted and reputed which hee knoweth being one
of her company as aforesaid.

To the second Interrogatorie hee saith and deposeth that the said
shipp the Swann took in her full lading of ffish in Newfound land
in or about the moneth of August 1650, and about the end of the
said