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The 24th of August 1654. [CENTRE HEADING]
… The 24th of August 1654. [CENTRE HEADING]
On behalfe of the mariners of the shipp}<br />
the Morning Starr, James Bowman commander}
'''James Bowman''' of London mariner, late<br />
Commander of the shipp the ''Morning Starr'' of<br />
London, aged 34 yeares or thereabouts sworne before<br />
the right Worshipfull the Commissioners in the Portugall<br />
businesse and exámined saith and deposeth as<br />
followeth, videlicet.
That the said shipp the ''Morning Starr'' whereof this deponent was<br />
Commander was seized by the authoritie and officers of the king of<br />
Portugall at Lisbone on or about the 12th of June 1650, and this deponent<br />
and company turned and imprisoned in the castle there, and utterly<br />
deprived of the possession thereof; And that two dayes before the said<br />
seizure this deponent paid his men as part of their wages the severall summes of<br />
money mentioned and expressed in the schedule hereunto annexed<br />
which hee saith were lost unto them and expended by their said imprisonment<br />
and turning out of the shipp, and that they lost in clothes and Instruments<br />
and in their adventures which they had aboard the other summes mentioned<br />
in the said schedule, namely John [?Coomes] this deponents mate received<br />
in wages of this deponent and lost the and spent the same by the<br />
said imprisonment fifteene pounds sterling, and in clothes and<br />
Instruments fifteene pounds and adventure 25 ''li'' sterling, and soe<br />
all the rest of the persons mentioned in the said schedule, (who<br />
hee saith were all mariners of this deponents companie in the said<br />
shipp) suffered loss respectively in all theise as is expressed in<br />
the said schedule, which schedule hee saith was and is true.
James Bowman [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 24th of August 1654. [CENTRE HEADING]
On the behalfe of James Bowman}<br />
the Commander of the ''Morning starr''}<br />
touching his losses at Lisbone.}
'''. j .'''
'''Thomas Hoare''' of London mariner, late Purser of the<br />
shipp the ''Morning starr'' James Bowman master<br />
aged 24 yeares or thereabouts, sworne before the<br />
right Worshipfull the Commissioners appointed in the<br />
Portugall businesse, saith and deposeth by vertue<br />
of his oath
That the said shipp ''Morning starr'' whereof James Bowman was commander<br />
was seized at Lisbone by the authoritie and officers of the kinge of<br />
Portugall on or about the 12th of June 1650, and the said James<br />
Bowman, and company turned out of her and imprisoned in and<br />
under which imprisonment hee the said Bowman continued many monethes, and disbursed<br />
severall summes of money for and towards the releife and supplie of<br />
his said company in their said imprisonment, And saith the said<br />
Captainet, And saith the said<br />
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