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Transcription

That hee this deponent having now seene and perused
a paper beginning The clayme of Allen Reynardson et cetera
and ending 1390 0000 hee saith and deposeth that hee being a
ffactor then to certayne English Merchants at Porto Port well
knoweth that teh English Merchants trading to Porto Port have suffered
losse and damage to the value of seaven hundred and forty
Mill Res or somewhat more, upon peeces of eight of Peru they
being made uncurrant by the King of Portugalls proclamation
before the Restitution of their moneys which they had received
And hee further saith that the sayd Merchants have disbursed
in charges about withdrawing the sequestration and recovering
their sayd moneys the full summe of sixe hundred Mill Res
and upwards this hee knoweth for the reasons aforesayd as
alsoe for that hee this deponent was present and assisted
in making up the Accompts touching the forsayd charges and
dammage And this hee saith was in the yeare 1652 or
thereabouts./

Edmund Pyrton [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

Repeated before Doctor Godolphin.

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The eighth of January 1655. [CENTRE HEADING]

On the behalfe of Jacob}
Bowrey touching his}
losse by the portuguesses in}
the shipp the Chapman}
Nicholas Trerice master}

Jacob Bowry of Wapping in the County of Middlesex
Mariner aged 51 yeares or thereabouts sworne before
the right Worshipfull John Godolphin doctor of lawes, one
of the Judges of the high Court of the Admiraltie
saith and deposeth by vertue of his oath.

That in or about the moneth of August 1650 the shipp called the
Chapman of London (whereof Nicholas Trerice was commander)
was seized by the Portugueses, subiects of the King of Portugall at
the Island of Madera, together with all the lading and gods aboard
her, and that hee this deponent was then in her and master Carpenter
of her, and had then aboard for his owne accompt thirtie kintalls
of fish worth four score pounds sterling, twenty barrells
of pease worth thirtie pounds sterling, halfe a hundred weight
of tobacco worth seaven pounds, and after those rates
hee saith the like goods were then and there commonly sold as the ordinary
and