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To the 12th hee saith, That hee this deponent verily beleeveth, That the
said John Jeffereys, Thomas Colclough and Companie by meanes of the
losse of the said shipp the Rappahannacke her Tackle ffurniture
Negroes and lading have suffered losse and dammage, over and above the
principall, the summe of eight hundred pounds at the least, which incase
the said seizure had not beene, they might have clearely benefitted by the supply
of the proceed of the said Negroes and goods, and by the employm:ent of =
their said shipp in the transportation of such goods and merchandises
as they had in Virginia ready to be transported in the said shipp for
England, and which still does remaine thence to the great dammage and
prejudice of the said goods and Own:ers Hee further saith, That the
wages due to him this deponent and 23. other Officers and Mariners of the
said shipp in the voiage aforesaid did and doe really amount to the
somme of nyne hundred pounds Lawfull moneyes of England according
to the agreement made between the said Owners and this deponent for the
said voiage. Hee further saidth, That hee this deponent had at the time
of the sezure aforesaid aboard the said shipp for and upon the private
adventure of himselfe and Companies their Cloathes and necessaries therein comprised to the valew of three hundred
pounds lawfull money of England or thereabouts, And saith that
one Mr Edward Mort[?imer] and Companie English Merchants and
Subjects of this Commonwealth had at the time aforesaid on board the
said shipp for their owne benefitt and accompt to the valew of one
Thousand pounds of like lawfull money of England, consisting in
Seaventeene pounds weight of Guinney Gould, and other goods and
Merchandises carried out of England to be bartered for commodities
of that Countrey for their Accompt All the premisses hee well knoweth being as aforesaid
Master of the said the Rappanhannack at the time aforesaid, and
having under his Care and conduct the shipp and goods aforesaid, and
being participant in the losse susteyned by meanes of the said seizure
And further hee cannot depose.

To the thirteenth and last hee saith, hee cannot positively nor knowingly
depose anything to the Contents of this article more or otherwise
then hee hath formerly deposed, to which hee referreth himselfe

Repeated before Doctor Godolphin:

Thomas Clarke [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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The 8th day of March 1656:

Rp. 2.us

Examined upon the said Allegation:.

Thomas Brome of Wapping in the parish of
Stepney and County of Middlesex Mariner late
Masters mate of the said shipp the Rappahannacke
aged 30 yeares or thereabouts a Wittnesse sworne before
the judges of the high Court of Admiraltie of
England saith as followeth-

To the first Article of the said Allegation hee saith, That hee this deponent well
knoweth the interrogated shipp the Rappahannack arlate, and hath