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of the said place imprisoned the arlate ff … of the said place imprisoned the arlate ffrancis Hurdidge<br />
master of the said shipp and did send the said<br />
shipp to sea for a man of warr in service of the<br />
king of Portugall, and that she remained in that<br />
service or ymployment about fower months, All<br />
the passages by him predisposed of he saith he very well know<br />
being a board her all the time. And further he cannot depose
To the third article he deposeth and saith that the arlate Governour<br />
of Angola did promise to pay out the arlate Captaine<br />
Hurdidge six hundred millrees per month for every<br />
month that the said shipp the ''Mary and John'' should [?be]<br />
out upon the service of his master the King of<br />
Portugall, And the said Governour of Angola did<br />
not performe his promise to the said hurdidge, for that<br />
the said our did pay the said hurdidge for a good<br />
part of what was due for the said shipps service, in<br />
Salt which he forced the said hurdidge to take, and<br />
he saith that the said Captaine and Owners were<br />
great loosers thereby And further he cannot depose
To the fourth and fifth articles of the said allegation hee<br />
deposeth and saith that the said shipp the ''Mary and John''<br />
did by the command of the said our of Angola<br />
returne from her said fower month voyage into<br />
Angola laden with salt, and that there were about twenty<br />
days spent over and above the said 4 months before she<br />
was unladen of the said salt, and that there is due<br />
and ought to bee paid about 400 Millrees for the days<br />
she spent in discharging of the said salt, and that the<br />
said our would not and nor did allowe any thing for<br />
the said days, And he alsoe deposeth and saith that the<br />
shipp during the was in the said 4 months service under<br />
the king of Portugall had runn upon the rocks and<br />
split the sterne post of the said shipp and broke of the<br />
Irons from the post and the rudder of the said shipp, and<br />
that she was twenty days in repayring, and that there<br />
is due and ought to be payd 400 Millrees for the said<br />
20ty days spent in repayring her, And that the said<br />
Captaine Hudidge was at great chardges in repayring of<br />
the said shipp, Ironworke being very deere, but<br />
to what certaine sum he saith he knoweth not, And<br />
further he cannot depose.
To the sixth article he deposeth that the arlate hurdidge and the<br />
Owners of the said shipps were dammifyed 200 Millries at cost as he<br />
coneiveth by the said our imprisoning of him the said<br />
hurdidge, And he saith that the said Governour commenced a suite<br />
against the said Hurdidge, and that thereupon the said Hurdidge was<br />
forced to stay on shoare with servants to look after and<br />
defend himself in the said suite, but what it cost him therein he<br />
saith he knoweth not And otherwise he cannot depose.
To the seventh article of the said allegation he deposeth and<br />
saith that the said shipp the ''Mary and John'' being discharged<br />
from the service of the king of Portugall did in or about the<br />
months of September and October 1650 at Angola take on<br />
board by order of the said our and officers of the king<br />
ofur and officers of the king<br />
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