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ordinary and market price, and that hee ha … ordinary and market price, and that hee had then aboard her as many<br />
tooles and clothes as were worth 20 ''li'' sterling, all which said goods, tooles<br />
and clothes hee saith hee lost by the said seizure, and that over and above<br />
the same hee lost sixteene monthes wages by the said seizure at 42 ''s'' per<br />
moneth (at which time hee came home, having<br />
for the most part of the space bin forced to serve under the Portugueses n the service of the<br />
king of Portugall without any pay and scarse having victualls<br />
to sustaine him. Soe that this deponent in goods,<br />
clothes, tooles, and wages by the said seizure hath suffered dammadge and<br />
losse to the summe of 170 ''li'' sterling and upwards.
Jacob Bowry [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The tenth of January 1655. [CENTRE HEADING]
On the behalfe of John}<br />
Evans touching his losse by}<br />
the Portuguesses, in the shipp}<br />
the ''Susan'' of Newhaven}
'''Nathaniel Whitfeild''' of London gentleman aged<br />
26 yeares or thereabouts sworne before the right<br />
worshipfull John Godolphin doctor of lawes, one of<br />
the Judges of the high Court of the Admiraltie<br />
saith and deposeth by vertue of his oath.
That in the moneth of May 1650 John Evans then of New=<br />
haven in New England set forth to sea the shipp the ''Susan'' of the<br />
said port (burthen 60 tonnes or thereabouts, commanded by Robert<br />
Marten and manned with thirteene men) bound for ffiall in<br />
Portugall laden with pipestaves, hoopes, and pease<br />
with order to proceede thense for Virginia, and soe for London;<br />
And saith shee was fitted and victualled accordingly for the said<br />
voyage, which hee knoweth for that hee this deponent was then servant<br />
to the said John Evands at New haven aforesaid, and kept his<br />
accompts, and was specially acquainted with the said shipps soe<br />
setting out and designe; and ssw her proceede thereon from the<br />
said port. And saith that the said shipp comming to ffiall was<br />
there in or about the moneth of August 1650 seized with her<br />
lading by the authoritie of the King of Portugall<br />
and the said John Evans dispoiled thereof, as by severall certificates from ffiall<br />
and the relation of some of the said shipps company this deponent<br />
hath bin informed. And further saith that the hull tackle<br />
furniture and apparrell of the said shipp at the time of such her proceeding from<br />
New haven aforesaid together with her<br />
fitting, furnishing, victualling and charges of setting out<br />
were worth and did amount unto and [?stand]<br />
the said John Evans in the summe of six hundred fiftie foyre pounds<br />
Andundred fiftie foyre pounds<br />
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