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Transcription

The 22th day of ffebruarie 1653

Examined upon the sayd allegation.

3)

John Upson of Redriffe in the County of Surrey
Mariner aged 48 yeares or thereabouts a
witnes sworne and examined deposeth and saith
as followeth. videlicet.

To the sayd allegation and the severall articles thereof this deponent saith
that for and dureing the tyme arlate Philip Noyes and Company
were Owners of the sayd shipp the Plough and so accounted, and that
the sayd shipp under the Commaund of the sayd Philip Noyes as master of her
(of the sight of this deponent who was Masters mate of the shipp Satisfaction
then lyeing att Riga) did in the moneth of June 1652 arrive safely
att the sayd Port of Riga, and then and there the sayd Philip Noyse did
buy and for his owne accompt lade on bard the sayd shipp Plough
two last and eight lips pound of flax worth 3 li sterling per hundred
or thereabouts and one last and an halfe of hempe worth about
36 s per hundred and seven long deales worth .7. s a peice, and
thirteene hundred and an halfe of Clapboard worth .6. li per hundred
and 12 hundred pipestaves the value whereof he certainly knoweth
not. and that the Chests Cloathes and Instruments of the sayd Noyes
and his shipps Company aboard the sayd shipp Plough were well worth
80. li sterling and upwards and that the sayd shipp the Plough was with
her foresayd goods bound for the Port of London here to discharge
and having taken in her sayd gooods sayled in Company of the sayd shipp
Satisfaction to Copenhagen in denmarke and there arrived safely
in August 1652. and continued there till September 1652 att which
tyme she was stayed from proceeding for London by the rder of the
King of denmarke and there deteyned till ffebruary 1652
and was then absolutely seized into the hands of the sayd King. by means
whereof the sayd shipp (which was an able shipp of 120 lasts and 12
gunnes and was worth in the Judgment of this deponent 1500 li sterling.)
and goods Cloathes and other things are become lost to the true
Owners thereof who have besides the losse of their sayd shipp and goods by
the meanes of the sayd seizure and detention suffered other great
dammages videlicet the sayd Noyes and Company 55. s or thereabouts
per last of all the sayd shipps lading of merchants goods the voyage and
in want of ymployment of the sayd shipp (the dammages being so cast upp)
80 li per moneth or thereabouts. And the sayd Noyes and his Mariners
over and besides the foresayd dammages in losse of tyme and expenses
have susteyned losse and dammage to the summe of 100 li sterling att the
least And saith he knoweth the premisses because he saw a good part of
the syd goods bought and all of them laden att Riga and sayled in Company
of the Plough in the sayd shipp the Satisfaction from Riga to Copenhagen
where the sayd detention and seizure were made as aforesaid And further
he saith he cannot depose.

John [?Upsonn] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]