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bearing eight peeces of Ordnance togeather … bearing eight peeces of Ordnance togeather with her tackle apparrell<br />
furniture and provisions for the shipps Companie and Negroes were<br />
at the time of the seizure aforesaid really worth the summe of Two<br />
Thousand seaven hundred pounds sterling money of England, which<br />
hee knoweth for that a sixteenth part of the said shipp before shee was<br />
soe fitted and furnished to Sea upon the voiage aforesaid, of this deponents<br />
certaine knowledge was by Richard hull the former Master and part<br />
Owner thereof, sold unto the said Jeffereys and Colclough for one<br />
hundred pounds at the least, soe that the whole shipp in the condition shee<br />
then was did after that rate amount unto 1600: ''li'' or thereabouts and with<br />
the addition of all necessary tackle apparrell furniture provisions and<br />
all conveniences for such a voiage and service, this deponent in his Conscience<br />
and to the best of his Judgment fully convinced and assured of the valew<br />
of the premisses as hee hath predeposed the same, And as to the said<br />
shipp the ''Sarah'', hee cannot depose anything knowingly, as to the value<br />
thereof, nor touching the freight or mens wages in and aboard the same<br />
the voiage in question. And further or otherwise hee cannot depose
To the 11th hee saith, That about two moneths after the<br />
seizure of the said shipp ''Sarah'', and about five or six weekes after the<br />
seizure of the said shipp ''Rappahannack'', the said Scroll and Companie<br />
redelivered unto the Companies of the said surprized shipps, and of two<br />
other English shipps, which they had alsoe thereabouts surprized, and taken<br />
the said shipps ''Sarah'', they having taken out of the same all the provisions<br />
of Victualls, saving two butts of beanes, two barrells of beefe, one hundred<br />
of Stockfish and about 5. or 600. weight of bread, togeather with<br />
some tunns of water, the Company then by them putt onboard the said<br />
shipp ''Sarah'' being about 70. persons, and being strictly ordered and<br />
enjoyned by the said seizors to goe directly for England, upon paine of<br />
forfeiture of the said shipp if they deviated or tooke any other Courses or voiages [XX]<br />
would have required about thirty moneths time, but this deponent and the said<br />
Arthur Perkins and the rest of the seized shipps Companies soe putt on board<br />
the said shipp ''Sarah'' finding that such provisions were altogether insufficient<br />
for such a Companie and voiage, and having but one entrie anchor, and one<br />
peece of Cable of about 50. or 60. fathom, and one suite of sailes very<br />
thin and insufficient for such a voiage, and being unwilling to expose their<br />
lives to such imminent and almost inevitable danger, they sailed from<br />
Cape de Lopes aforesaid to the Island of Saint Thomas, there they were<br />
necessitated to sell the said shipp the ''Sarah'' for Victualls to keepe them<br />
alive and to furnish another small Vessell, which they there procured to<br />
carry them to the Barbadoes, there to gett passage for England, and saith<br />
if they had not steered the Course and soul the said shipp to the use and<br />
intent aforesaid, they must in all probability have perished for want of<br />
Victualls. The premisses hee declareth and knoweth by sadd experience<br />
to bee true. And otherwise to this Article hee cannot deposetherwise to this Article hee cannot depose +
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