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To the 14th he saith the arlate William Ma … To the 14th he saith the arlate William Marshall had 22 negers<br />
seized on att Bahia worth 50 millrees per head one with<br />
another making eleven hundred millrees, beside Elephants<br />
teeth and other things of good value and the sayd good moneys of and price<br />
of the other goods invested in sugars would have yielded four<br />
for one profit att Lisbone, all which he lost by the seizure<br />
aforesaid. which he knoweth for the reasons aforesayd.
To the 15th he saith the sayd Captaine Hurdidge had a Cabin well<br />
furnished with all things requisite as globes, plate, gold<br />
Clothes and other things, all which this deponent hath heard<br />
and beleiveth were seized by the Hollanders, which seizure<br />
was occasioned by the former seizure made by the Portugueses<br />
And further not being in the sayd ship upon seized by the<br />
Hollanders he cannot depose
To the 16th he saith the mariners of the said ship, (besides<br />
the sayd Captaine his servants and and Marshall aforesayd who was<br />
Pilot) were about nine persons all English and suffered<br />
dammage in losse of tyme, Cloathes and goods besides their [XXXX] to a great<br />
value and this deponent for his owne part suffered<br />
in his such losse by the sayd seizure the summe of five<br />
hundred pounds sterling. for he saith that att such seizure of<br />
the sayd shipp by the Portugalls the sayd shipp was indebted<br />
to this deponent for three years service att three pounds<br />
per moneth which should then and there have bene paid to him<br />
had not the sayd seizure happened and<br />
would being invested into sugars have yeilded profit after<br />
the proportion aforesaid att Lisbon the whole summe of which<br />
would have amounted to five hundred pounds sterling as aforesayd.
To the 17th he saith that the sayd Captaine Hurdidge besides others<br />
dammage susteyned by the Portugall suffered losse and<br />
preiudice by the keeping of about one hundred and<br />
four score negroes for the forty days and upwards that<br />
the sayd shipp was unlading and repairing att Angola as<br />
aforesayd the summe of two hundred ninety millrees and<br />
four hundred Rees or thereabouts, the dyet and Charge of<br />
keeping the said Negroes amounting to 40 Rees the day per<br />
head. And further cannot depose.
To the 18th he saith that this deponent and the arlate haynes<br />
had two negroes taken from them by the Portugueses worth<br />
fifty millrees per head and this deponent besides the losse of<br />
his sayd negroe, and five hundred pounds aforesayd lost<br />
twenty millrees that should have bene payd him att the Custome<br />
house at Brazeele for his service done to the sayd Portugalls<br />
Andone to the sayd Portugalls<br />
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