HCA 13/71 f.644r Annotate
Volume | HCA 13/71 |
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Edited on 29/05/2014 by Colin Greenstreet |
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Portugall 1: Quire./.
The two and twentyeth day of July 1654.
On the behalfe of Thomas Adams}
Thomas Hollis Thomas Briggs and}
Company Owners of the shipp Mary}
and John whereof ffrancis}
Hurdidge was master}
Examined upon an allegation on the behalfe
of the sayd Thomas Adams Thomas Hollis
Thomas Briggs and Company.
Richard Rawl of Eastsmithfeild in the County of Middlesex
Mariner Late Carpenter of the sayd shipp the Mary and
John borne att Barnstable in the County of devon. a
witnesse sworne before the Right worshipfull the
Commissioners for the English and Portugalls, and
examined saith and deposeth by vertue of his Oath as
followeth. videlicet.
To the first article of the sayd allegation This deponent saith and deposeth that
in and during the yeares 1648. 1649. 1650. and 1651. the arlate
Thomas Adams, Thomas Hollis Mr Hills, and Company merchants
of London were the true and lawfull Owners and Proprietors of
the sayd shipp the Mary and John whereof ffrancis Hurdidge
was master and of her tackle and furniture and so aććounted
which he knoweth for that he was Carpenter of in and aboard her for
and during all the tyme aforesayd. And otherwise deposeth not
To the second article of the sayd allegation, This deponent saith that the foresayd
shipp and master being att Lisboa in Portugall he the sayd ffrancis
Hurdidge did lett out his sayd shipp to freight in the moneth of March
1648. English stile by license of the King of Portugall on a voyage
to be made with her from thense to Madera thense to Angolla thense
to Bahia in Brasilia, and in pursuanće of the sayd voyage, the
foresayd shipp in or about the month of June then next followeing
1649. (sic) departed from Lisbone, and safely arrived att Angola in the month
of April 1650. and there the Governour of Angola after
such the arrivall of the sayd shipp did putt the sayd ffrancis Hurdidge
out of her and imprisoned him, and sett out the sayd shipp in the
service and imployment of the King of Portugall as a man
of warr and in that service she was and remayned for the
space of four monethes of the knowledge of this deponents who
was in and served on board her in the sayd service of the King
of Portugall, and was Carpenter on board her from the beginning
of the sayd voyage from Lisboa. And further deposeth not.
To the third article of the sayd allegation hee saith that the Governour of Angola
when he so tooke the sayd shipp into the King of Portugalls service did
promise to pay unto the sayd Captaine Hurdidge the summe of six
hundred mill rees per moneth for every moneth the sayd shipp should
ćontinue in the sayd service, howbeit he saith that when payment was
to be made the sayd Governour refused to make full payment in moneyes
and constrayned the sayd Captaine Hurdidge having noe way to helpe
himselfe to aććept of salt for a part thereof att his the sayd Governours
owne rates, and the salt so allowed was not truly and faithfully
delivered but with embezlement and losse, so as the sayd ffrancis
Hurdidge and his Owners were thereby endammaged as he ćonćeyveth
and beleiveth to the value of four hundred millrees and upwards
And more deposeth not.
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