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and had and would undoubtedly there have taken the same in (having soe
obtained leave of the Queene of the place) had not the said interruption by the
dutch happened, and that her lading of pepper was by the
English company aforesaid designed for London, and that shee would have continued
and brought from Acheen[?a] about 501760 pound of pepper English weight
and that the prima cost thereof (as this deponent hath bin credibly informed) was there (according to the
usuall prima [?account] not above three pence sterling
per pound, and that the [?said] lading of pepper which should there have bin taken in
would here have given and yeelded the said English company twelve
pence sterling per pounds, which for the said 501760 pounds that might
and would soe have bin brought hence amounts to about five and twenty
thousand eightie eight pounds sterling, from which deducting three pence
per pound for the prima cost, and two pence gfarthing per pound for freight
and two pence per pound for custome ([XXting five per cenmt) and one tenth part of the custome
for Algier dutch, (which were all and the only duties
payable out of the said pepper soe to have bin brought) amounting
in all to about - 15345 li - 9 s - 10 d, - there remaines about
9742 li - 10 s- 2 d - over and above the said charges which cleare
summe hath bin and is lost to the said English

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