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'''Portugall 2 Quire:'''
The fourth of Au … '''Portugall 2 Quire:'''
The fourth of August 1654
On the behalfe of Thomas Walker}<br />
touching his losses in the ''Peter and Jane''}
'''Thomas Walker''' of Mile-end in the County of Middlesex<br />
Mariner, aged fourtie yeeres or thereabouts sworne the day<br />
above said before the right worshipfull the Commissioners in the Portugall<br />
businesse, sitting in the dyning roome of the Doctors<br />
Commons London, saith and deposeth.
That hee this deponent was masters mate of the shipp the ''Peter and Jane''<br />
(George Chappell Commander) at the time of her being at Lisb[?oune],<br />
namely in the summer time of the yeere 1649, at which time hee saith shee<br />
was there seized by the authoritie of the king of Portugall, and her master and<br />
company forcibly put out of her and imprisoned by the said authoritie, and that<br />
hee this deponent one of the said companie was imprisoned from the beginning,<br />
of June to the beginning of August of the said moneth namely for the space of<br />
two monethes and upwards, and was thereby deprived of two monethes wages<br />
which at 4 ''li''. per mensem (according to contract made with him by the said master)<br />
cometh to eight pounds sterling, and that hee spent in that time in necessarie<br />
expences for meate drinke and otherwise twelve pounds sterling. Moreover<br />
that there were taken from him by the said kings officers a hundred pounds<br />
weight of beades worth (at 5 rialls per pound) twelve pounds ten shillings,<br />
sterling and false pearles to the valew of three pounds<br />
and in clothes bookes and Instruments to the valew of twelve pounds sterling,<br />
In the whole 47li- 10s.
Thomas Walles [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 8th of August 1654
On the behalfe of mr Carter of London}<br />
touching certain ffustians seized at Lisbone}<br />
by the king of Portugall.}
'''R .j.'''
'''Richard Davies''' of the parish of St<br />
Michael Bashishaw London Clothmaker<br />
aged 58 yeeres or thereabouts sworne before<br />
the right worshipfull the Commissioners appointed<br />
in the Portugall businesse and examined<br />
upon certaine Interrogatories saith and deposeth<br />
by vertue of his oath.
To the fifth Interrogatorie hee saith and deposeth that in the monethes of<br />
May and June in the yeere 1647 hee this deponent did dresse certaine<br />
fustians for William Carter of London merchant, and on the 26th of the<br />
said moneth of June 1647 did put and cause the same being<br />
two hundred peeces of fustians to be put up into foure drie fatts, which fatts<br />
were nombred 1. 2. 3. 4 and in particular hee saith that there were 34 peeces put<br />
into drie fatt of No.1. whereof 13 woaded and into the fatt No. 2. fiftie peeces whereof 15<br />
were woaded, into the fatt No.3. fiftie six peeces whereof tenn were<br />
woaded, and into the fatt No. 4. sixtie peeces whereof twelve were woaded<br />
and saith the said severall fatts were marked as in the margin [MARKE]
[LH MARGIN]<br />
[The mark consists of a vertical 4, C, U, and W, one on top of the other, with each letter getting bigger from the top down, and with a vertical line drawn through]
by him<br />
the said William Carter and his order, and saith the same were sent<br />
from this deponents house in Bashishaw Street by order of the said<br />
Mr Carter to be carried aboard a shipp, and were to goe (as the said<br />
Mr Carter told this deponent to Lisbone,<br />
And saith the said fustians unwoaded were worth 40 ''s'' a peece,<br />
and those woaded worth 45 ''s'' a peece, which hee knoweth, because hee dealeth<br />
and hath long dealt in that commoditie as a workeman, and is thereby well<br />
acquainted with the valew thereof.
Richard davies [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]reof.
Richard davies [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] +
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