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To the third Interrogatorie hee saith and … To the third Interrogatorie hee saith and deposeth that the said Carvell<br />
was of the burthen of 60 tonnes or thereabouts, and having nowe seane<br />
and perused the schedule annexed hee saith that the sume is a past and<br />
true accompt of the cost and of the charges of the said Carvell<br />
amounting to six hundred and nine mill eight hundred fiftie<br />
five res and so much it cost the amount aforesaid for the sume<br />
and the charges thereof, which hee knoweth being master as aforesayd<br />
and knowing and being acquainted with the buying and paying for her<br />
and the disbursing the other charges schedulated in and about her, and<br />
otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the fourth hee saith that there were aboard the said shipp on Carvell<br />
as the time of the said seizure 213 barrells of pilchards<br />
foure hogsheads of oils, foure boxes of Venise or false pearles, and<br />
foure grindstones for the proper accompt of this deponent an English man<br />
and belonging unto him, which with his bookes, clothes, instruments<br />
and chardgers in 9 moneths in prisonment, and for the losse of his<br />
servants wages and his owne time amounted and doth extend to five hundred and fourtie<br />
and three mill res and that the said goods were alsoe seized with<br />
the said Carvell and this deponent was and is utterlie deprived<br />
thereof and dammified to the value aforesaid of 543 mill res and further<br />
that the said owners are dannified by the seizure of the said vessell<br />
to the summe of 609 mill and 855 res, all which hee knoweth for<br />
thereesus aforesaid.
Rich Chappell [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 15th of August 1654. [CENTRE HEADING]
On the behalfe of the late Owners of<br />
the ''Robuck'', william Hargraves master
'''Edward Garret''' late masters mate of<br />
the said shipp the ''Robuck'', aged 54<br />
yeeres or thereabouts sworne before the<br />
Right worshipfull the Commissioners appointed in the<br />
portugall businesse and examined upon<br />
certaine interrogatories in instred on the behalf<br />
of the said mariners, saith and deposeth<br />
as followeth.
To the first and second interrogatorries hee saith and deposeth that<br />
he was masters mate of the shipp the ''Robuck'' (William Hargraves<br />
nor) when shee was seized by prince Rupert at Lisbone in the yeere<br />
1649, at which time hee saith shee had 220 tonnes of goods<br />
aboard her upon freight, and so that the owners of the said shipp<br />
were to have received nineteen Mil res per tonne for freight of<br />
each tonne of the said goods, besides otherwise occassioned, and received the sume if the said seizure<br />
had not bin made. and further deposeth that at Lisbone at the time<br />
of the said seizure tobaccoes bore the rate of seaven vintens per pound<br />
at the least, and afther that rate namely seaven vintens per pound<br />
one pound with another. all the tobaccoes aboard the said shipp<br />
atccoes aboard the said shipp<br />
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