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that hee this deponent being often in Comp … that hee this deponent being often in Company with them at the Brazeele<br />
they did all of them at some tymes shewe this deponent their Charterparties and this deponent read<br />
them, and thereby well remembreth that there was a particular summe<br />
expressed in every of them for averidge to bee due and payable to the sayd<br />
Masters and their Companyes (over and above the freight due to their Owners)<br />
and that the sayd Averidge did by the sayd Charterparties appeare to belonge to<br />
the sayd Masters and their Companyes and not to their Owneres, but the particular<br />
summes what the sayd Averidge was a roove hee remembreth not And<br />
further to these articles hee cannot depose saveing hee saith hee beleeveth<br />
all English shipps that goe the Brazeele<br />
voyage have an Average expressed in their Charterparties as belonging<br />
to the Masters and Companyes of them in which the Owners have noe interest/
To the 4th hee cannot depose/
To the 5th hee saith hee hath heard that the arlate Captaines Ny, Tatam,<br />
Ell, Bell and Wills were all bound with their severall shipps arlate<br />
upon a voyage from Lisbne to Brazeele and had made their agreement and<br />
signed their Charterpartyes for the sayd voyage, but what the conditions<br />
of their charterparties were hee knoweth not, for that hee this deponent was<br />
a prizoner in the Brazeele at such tyme as they were about to sett out from<br />
Lisbone, and hath heard there being then some difference betwixt the English and<br />
Portugueses they were stayed by the Parliament of Englands shipps as<br />
they came out of Lisbone and soe proceeded not on the sayd voyage And<br />
further to this article hee cannot depose/
To the 6th hee saith that in all ordinary charterparties for any other<br />
voyage, and not the Brazeele, the freight is usually expressed in them,<br />
and beside the freight, there is usually expressed the payment of primage<br />
average and pellilodmonage accustomed, which primage Average<br />
and pellidmonage did and doth and allwaies was reputed to belonge<br />
soely to the Masters and Companyes of shipps and noe part thereof to<br />
the Owners of shipps, nor did this deponent ever heare that any part<br />
thereof was at any tyme claymed by any Owners as due to them, untill<br />
this suite, or that the Owners had any other allowance due to them save<br />
their freight And further saving his foregoeing deposition to which<br />
hee referreth hee cannot depose saving hee saith that the average expressed<br />
in Brazeele Charterparties, and the primage Average and pellidmonage<br />
expressed in other ordinary Charterparties to other places, are one and<br />
the same thing as to the right of them to the Masters and Companyes<br />
of shipps, and saith hee knoweth by his owne Charterpartie aforesayd<br />
and many other Charterparties which hee hath seene for Brazeele voyages<br />
that there is noe other allowance in them to the masters and Companyes<br />
of shipps that trade thither instead of primage Average and pellidmonage<br />
but only the Average aforesayd And further to this article hee cannot<br />
depose/
To the 7th article hee saith that hee hath severall tymes shipped fflanders goods<br />
at dover and the downes (they being sent out of fflanders thither to that entente) and hath<br />
transported them thense somtymes to Lisbone sometymes to Cadiz sometymes<br />
to Mallega, Saint Lucar Carthagena Allecant and other places of Italy and Spaine<br />
and hee this deponent hath receaved two ryalls Averidge and sometymes<br />
more upon every duckett freight for such goods by him transported, aand knoweth<br />
that the like Averidge for fflanders goods laden at dover the downes or<br />
othern at dover the downes or<br />
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