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Ad 7um Arlum dicit et deponit That the Governors of
Bengall and Angola are both Portugueses and subiects of the King of Portugall, and were and
are as this deponent veily eleeveth natives of Portugall, or some
other place within the Dominions of the King of Portugall,
and for such generally accounted and reputed; And this deponent
sayth that they the sayd Hovernors of Bengall and Angola did
very well know and understand (being thereof informed by
most of the Company of the ship Hopewell) that the said
ship with her lading came directly from London, and did
wholly belong to English men and subjects of this Nation,
and that there hath bene for severall yeares past, and
still is peace and amity betweene this Nation and the
Crowne of Portugall. Et aliter nescit deponere./

Ad 8um Arlum dicit et deponit That the sayd Jeffreys, Jenkins
Burton and Company aforesayd have suffered very great losse
and dammage by reason of the unjust seizure and detention of their
ship and lading as aforesayd in regard she was upon a very
hopefull and beneficiall designe, but how to estimate
this losse he knoweth knot. Et aliter nescit./

Ad 9um dicit That Bengall and Angola were and are both
under the Dominion and obsedience of the King of Portugall and soe
generally reputed and knowne to bee. Et aliter nescit./

John Goodlad [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

Repeit coram Doctor
Exton surrogato./

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27th Septembris 1660./

Ex super 2ds Allone in hac causa data

Johannes Goodlad de Lee in Comitatu Essex
nauta annos natus 46. aut eo circiter
juratus et examinatus dicit et deponit
prout sequitur videlicet./

]?XX] Examinatois testium ex}
[?XX] Jeffereys, Jacobi Jenkins}
[?XCCC] pprietarierum navis The}
[?XX] cujus Arthurus Perskins}
[?XXX] Regius Por=}
[?XXXXX] Anglia Capt.}
[?XXXX]}
Smith}

Ad 1um Arlum dicta Allonis det deponit That a such
time as the foresayd ship the Hopewell was seized as aforesayd
at Bengall, she had on board her twenty five
Negroes, and eight Tonnes or thereabous of Elephants
teeth; and a considerable part of her outwards lading
was then undisposed of; which part of the sayd outwards
lading