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Transcription

aboard her were when they were soe taken well condisitoned, And further
hee cannot depose not knowing the quantities of the provisions and goods
and merchandizes soe seized aboard the Constant Mary but ais well assured
they did amounte to a very considerable summe of money/

To the 6th 7th and 8th articles of the sayd allegation hee saith that since the
seizure of the Constant Mary aforesayd hee this deponent hath made two
voyages from London to Guinney and carried gunnes and swords and some other smale Adventures
for his owne Accompt and hath made great profitt videlicet five tymes the value they
cost him in England and some what more whereby hee beleeveth that if the
Constant Mary had with the goods and provisions soe seized in her arrived
safely at Guinney (whether shee was bound) and had gone with the proceeds
there made of them to the Barbados and there bartered the same away and
thence returned with the proceeds there made for London and not bin hindered
in her voyage by the seizure aforesayd her sayd voyage would have produced
to her sayd Owners at the least two thousand pounds sterling over and
above their principall of all which the sayd Owners are deprived by virtue
the sayd Albrechts and his Company have ever since the sayd 8th
of May 1654 kept and deteyned the sayd shipp Constant Mary and her
tackle Apparrell furniture provisions and ladeing aforesayd from her sayd
Ownersa and doe still deteyne the same or have otherwise disposed thereof And
further hee cannot depose/

To the 9th hee saith the Constant Mary if shee had not bin seized as
aforesayd might have bin lett out by her owners to ffreight for
voyages from London to Guinney and thence to the Barbados and thece to
London and would have yeilded them for freight fifty pounds a moneth
ever since the tyme of such her seizure as this deponent verily beleeveth
having knowne lesse shipps than the Constant Mary lett at that rate
per moneth for such voyages And further hee cannot depose/

To the 10th hee saith that uin his this deponents Judgement the sayd [?XXX]
Glover ffoweke and Company Owners of the Constant Mary by the [?losse]
of the sayd shipp goods and provisions and the profitt the same would have
produced if they had not bin seized and the losse of freight which the sayd shipp
wpuld have produced to them since such her seizure, have suffered losse and
dammage to the value of sixe thousand pounds sterling and upwards
And further hee cannot depose/

To the 11th hee saith hee referreth himselfe to the Proclamation of the
Peace concluded betwixt Oliver Late Lord Protector of the Commonwealth
of England Scotland and Ireland and the dominions and territories thereof and the
Lords the States Generalll of the United Netherland Provinces And further
hee cannot depose./

To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true./

John Palmer [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]