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Transcription

said Master and Officers wages therein comprised would in the whole
have amounted to six hundred pounds and upwards, this deponent having
so calculated and found the same to so bee for the said Master and three
other Officers and fowerteene Mariners wages for the whole voiage intended
by Gods blessing to have been accomplished in the space of fifteen
moneths or thereabouts. And further to this article hee saith hee cannot
depose:-

To the 11th Article of the said Allegation hee saith, That about ten weekes
after the seizure of the said shipp Sarah, the said Scroll and Company
having likewise seized three other English shipps trading in those
parts, that is to say the Rapahannacke, the Lion and Providence, and the
fortune, did deliver the said shipp Sarah unto the Arthur Perkins
formerly Master of her, and to one Mr Thompson, a ffactor or Agent
then aboard her, and that so the intent to transport the Masters and Companie
of the said severall shipps to England, the said seizors having before
such her delivery taken out of her all the said Negroes, togeather with
all her remaining outwards Cargo and provisions and elephants teeth
aforesaid, and having left them at Cape Lopes aforesaid having onely
then aboard the said shipp about five hundred weight of bread, about
one hundred of Stockfish, two butts of beanes, three small barrells of
beef, and a quantity of water for the sustenance of about sixtie persons
upon voiage which in all probability could not require lesse then
three moneths time, which was exceeding slender and alltogeather insuffi=
cient and for the most part very badd provisions, and the shipp very ill
accomodated, having onely one old suite of sailes. one whole anchor
and another that was maimed, and onely one peere of of a Cable, so that the
said Masters and men imbarqued in the said shipp were necessitated
for preservation of their lives to putt into Saint Thomas Island, where
they exchanged the said shipp Sarah for another small shipp and
necessary provisions to bring them to the Barbadoes, thence to take
shipping for England, which if they had not done, they must in all
probability have perished by famine. The premisses hee well knoweth
to bee true, and that be [XXX] sad and sorrowful experience. And
further hee cannot depose./

To the 12th hee saith, hee hath noe knowledge of the Contents of this
Article/:-

To the 13th hee saith, hee verily beleeveth and is in Conscience convinced soe
to doe; That the Owners of the said shipp Sarah, by the said seizure
and losse of her, and of her tackle apparrell and furniture, and
freight due for the voiage aforesaid have suffered losse and dammage to
the valew of two Thousand pounds sterling, and alsoe verily beleeveth
That according to the Computation aforesaid, the said Robert Lewellin, and
by the Losse of the said Negroes, elephants teeth, remainder of the
outward Cargoe and losse of the improvement of the proceed thereof
hath cleerely lost at the least the summe of six thousand pounds of
Lawfull moneys of England, and that the said Master and