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were he knoweth not, and also the foresayd … were he knoweth not, and also the foresayd salt being 4000<br />
Alquiers<br />
and the sayd ffrancis Hurdidge was to have hee betwixt three and<br />
four millrees per head for freight of the sayd Negroes to Bahia<br />
whither the sayd shipp was bound. And the said ship arrived with<br />
the said salt and Negers att Bahia the 7th day of ffebruary 1651<br />
English Accompt. and as soone as she was come to an Anchor was<br />
then and there seized and taken into the possession of the Ministers<br />
of the King of Portugall together with all the sayd salt and negers<br />
and freight and what soever with was in her or due to her belonging<br />
to the Accompt of the English. And saith there were there<br />
nine hundred and fifty Negers delivered on shoare and landed<br />
out of the said shipp, the particular acccompt of them he saith<br />
he cannot depose saving his subsequent depositions. And saith<br />
the sayd Negers were worth one with another about fiftye<br />
millress per head. for he saith he observed that some of them<br />
for 80. 70 and 60 millrees per head some for 50. 40 and<br />
36 millrees per head or thereabouts. And further deposeth not.
To the 9th he saith the said ship was of the burthen of<br />
three hundred eighty tonn English or 430. Portuguese, and was<br />
worth with her guns being 24. six thousand millrees, and<br />
was valued by the Portugueses themselves att Angola att<br />
12000 Crownes.
To the 10th he saith the foresayd Capt Hurdidge according to the<br />
Custome of the place did pay and satisfy the Royal Customes<br />
for all the sayd Negroes att Angola some in plate money and some<br />
in straw money and some in bills of Exchange, and was to receive<br />
the same att Bahia of and from the factors to whom the sayd<br />
Negroes were consigned, and the sayd money was likewise<br />
seized in the sayd factors hands by the sayd Kings ministers<br />
but the quantitiy of moneyes so payd by the sayd<br />
Captaine and to have bene repayd him upon Portuguese Accompt<br />
he knoweth not onely saith that the sayd Royal Customes att<br />
Anglola did amount to four millrees per head for the sayd<br />
negroes there on board as aforesayd, and so much he well<br />
observed, And further saith not.
To the 11th and 12th he saith that he saw not the goods arlate laden<br />
that for that the Portugalls had put this deponent away from Bahia in another shipp but the usuall freight of goods from Bahya<br />
to Lisboa is 26 millrees per tonne. and averidge for sugars<br />
160 Rees per arove and 54 aroves make a tonne, and Chests<br />
of sugar one with another contayne 25 aroves a peice in<br />
them, and that it is a usuall Custome att Bahia to give<br />
two millrees per chest for the place of sugars to the Captaines of shipps<br />
that receive sugars there on board them; and further knoweth not.
To the 13th he cannot depose saving as aforesayd onely saith<br />
of his observation that every millree layd out in Bahia<br />
yeilded neere upon four millrees and halfe att Lisboa.
Toon four millrees and halfe att Lisboa.
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