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meaning at Bengall) then hee could at Ango … meaning at Bengall) then hee could at Angola, and<br />
many Arguments to perswade the said Perkins and Company<br />
to Trade there, promising to assist them therein, And<br />
thereupon the said Perkins came to an Anchor [?before GUTTER]<br />
Bengall to trade there, And the said Governour provided<br />
a Warehouse, to put in some of the said ships lading<br />
and the said Perkins sent most of his said Ships [?owne GUTTER]<br />
lading onshore there, and tooke in Elephants Teeth and<br />
Negroes and while hee was thus trading, the Governour<br />
of Bengall gave notice to the Governour of Angola<br />
of the said ships being there, who presently [?manned GUTTER]<br />
and sent two ships of warr, to seize the said shipp and<br />
Lading in her which hee saith they did in a Treacherous<br />
manner, and Carried the said ship and Lading<br />
shee had in her to Angola. And there turned her Company<br />
ashore, And uttterly dispoyled and deprived the Owners<br />
of the said ship and Lading of the same, to their<br />
great losse and prejudice abd overthrowe of the voyage<br />
and designe, which hee deposeth goeing in the said ship<br />
to Bengall, and being onboard her when shee was<br />
seized and Carried to Angola in her where hee<br />
was turned ashore to shift for himselfe And<br />
further, cannot depose./.
To the fifth hee saith that the said Outward Lading Carried<br />
to Bengall in the said Ship. would have produced<br />
400 Negroes. and about tenne Tonns of Elephants Teeth<br />
but the vallue thereof, or howe many hogsheads of<br />
Tobaccoe they would have produced at Virginia hee<br />
knoweth not And further cannot depose./.
To the 6th hee saith that hee is not able to Judge how<br />
much the said Ship and her tackle furniture and provisions<br />
at the said time of seizure were worth./.
To the 7th hee saith that the said Governour of Bengall and<br />
the Governour of Angola (Called John ffernandez de Viera)
were and are both Subjects of the King of Portugall<br />
and this deponent at Angola, and all the said Ships Company<br />
did take their Oathes, that the said Ship was an English<br />
ship, and that shee and her Lading belonged to Englishmen<br />
And saith that there then was and nowe is Peace and<br />
Amity betweene England and Portugall, And further cannot<br />
depose./.
To the 8th hee saith that the Owners of the said ship [XXXX GUTTER]<br />
have suffered great losse and dammage by meanes of the said [??seizure GUTTER]<br />
but how much hee cannot Estimate, And further cannot depose.
To the 9th hee saith that Angola and bengall are both under the<br />
Power of the King of Portugall, And further saving as aforesaid
Richard Shamantt [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]aid
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