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Transcription

as her designe was to have done the Agents of the ffreighters of
the sayd shipp might there have laden the sayd shipp with the whole lading
of sugar and pepper for Accompt of the sayd freighters and with as good
pepper annd sugar as that shee tooke in at Polligande for those rates following
videlicet pepper at five and a halfe peeces of Eight per pecall cleere of all
charges and sugar at five and a quarter peeces of eight per Pecall
cleere of all charges soe that the freighters paid more for the
sayd pepper at Pollegundey then they should have paid in case they
could have gone into Bantam one peece of eight in every Pecall
which did amounte in all for the pepper to one thousand fower hundred twenty nyne
peeces of eight And one quarter of a peece of eight in the parcell for every
pecall of sugar being 487 Pecallss and 45 Cottees of sugar, which makes
487 quarters of peeces of eight which being reduced makes one
hundred twenty one peeces of eight and three quarters of a peece of eight, this hee
the better knoweth for that hee this deponent did in a longe boate
gett privately to Bantam and there continued about two moneths while
the sayd shipps lading was in prepareing and there tooke the weight
thereof, and hee this deponent was offered and could at Bantam
have bought pepper at the rate aforesayd of 5 and
1/2 peeces of eight per pecall all charges borne knoweth that sugar
might there have bin bought at the rate aforesayd of 5 and 1/4 peeces
of eight all charges borne And further hee cannot depose/

To the 10th hee saith that the fifteene hundred and fifty peeces of
eight and 3/4 of a peece of eight predeposed of soe paid by the sayd ffreighters
over and above at Pollyhundy for pepper and sugar more than they should have
done if they had bin permitted to goe to Bantam would at Bantam
have bought two hundred eighty two pecalls of pepper or thereabouts which
conteynes being reduced into English weight three hundred thirty two
hundred weight which of this deponents knowledge (who sold the like
pepper at Ligorne for somwhat above that rate) would have yeilded
the freighters Twenty peeces of Eight per hundred English weight at
Ligorne, being the place whether the sayd shipp went and where the
other pepper and sugar was carried and sold And at that rate or better
the pepper soe carried thither in the sayd shipp was as hee beleeveth sold And
further hee cannot depose/

To the 11th hee saith that the forementioned three hundred thirty two hundred
weight of pepper at twenty peeces of eight per hundred would have
amounted at the rate aforesayd of 20 peeces of eight per hundred unto
sixe thousand sixe hundred and forty peeces of eight which at the rate of fower
shillings tenn pence the peece of eight which was the rate that this deponent
well knoweth being then at Ligorne the Exchange for London then yeilded per
peece