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said Master and Officers wages therein com … said Master and Officers wages therein comprised would in the whole<br />
have amounted to six hundred pounds and upwards, this deponent having<br />
so calculated and found the same to so bee for the said Master and three<br />
other Officers and fowerteene Mariners wages for the whole voiage intended<br />
by Gods blessing to have been accomplished in the space of fifteen<br />
moneths or thereabouts. And further to this article hee saith hee cannot<br />
depose:-
To the 11th Article of the said Allegation hee saith, That about ten weekes<br />
after the seizure of the said shipp ''Sarah'', the said Scroll and Company<br />
having likewise seized three other English shipps trading in those<br />
parts, that is to say the ''Rapahannacke'', the ''Lion and Providence'', and the<br />
''fortune'', did deliver the said shipp ''Sarah'' unto the Arthur Perkins<br />
formerly Master of her, and to one Mr Thompson, a ffactor or Agent<br />
then aboard her, and that so the intent to transport the Masters and Companie<br />
of the said severall shipps to England, the said seizors having before<br />
such her delivery taken out of her all the said Negroes, togeather with<br />
all her remaining outwards Cargo and provisions and elephants teeth<br />
aforesaid, and having left them at Cape Lopes aforesaid having onely<br />
then aboard the said shipp about five hundred weight of bread, about<br />
one hundred of Stockfish, two butts of beanes, three small barrells of<br />
beef, and a quantity of water for the sustenance of about sixtie persons<br />
upon voiage which in all probability could not require lesse then<br />
three moneths time, which was exceeding slender and alltogeather insuffi=<br />
cient and for the most part very badd provisions, and the shipp very ill<br />
accomodated, having onely one old suite of sailes. one whole anchor<br />
and another that was maimed, and onely one peere of of a Cable, so that the<br />
said Masters and men imbarqued in the said shipp were necessitated<br />
for preservation of their lives to putt into Saint Thomas Island, where<br />
they exchanged the said shipp ''Sarah'' for another small shipp and<br />
necessary provisions to bring them to the Barbadoes, thence to take<br />
shipping for England, which if they had not done, they must in all<br />
probability have perished by famine. The premisses hee well knoweth<br />
to bee true, and that be [XXX] sad and sorrowful experience. And<br />
further hee cannot depose./
To the 12th hee saith, hee hath noe knowledge of the Contents of this<br />
Article/:-
To the 13th hee saith, hee verily beleeveth and is in Conscience convinced soe<br />
to doe; That the Owners of the said shipp ''Sarah'', by the said seizure<br />
and losse of her, and of her tackle apparrell and furniture, and<br />
freight due for the voiage aforesaid have suffered losse and dammage to<br />
the valew of two Thousand pounds sterling, and alsoe verily beleeveth<br />
That according to the Computation aforesaid, the said Robert Lewellin, and<br />
by the Losse of the said Negroes, elephants teeth, remainder of the<br />
outward Cargoe and losse of the improvement of the proceed thereof<br />
hath cleerely lost at the least the summe of six thousand pounds of<br />
Lawfull moneys of England, and that the said Master ands of England, and that the said Master and +
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