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The 11th of Aprill
1659.

The claime of Anthony ffernandez, John Page, Gowen Painter,}
Antonio Robles, Andrew Dunkin, John Tilly and John Chanterell for}
two hundred and Eighty Chests of Indico, Twenty two Chests of Drugs}
two small barrells of Druggs. two small Potaccoes of Druggs 476 hydes}
1094 Spanish Roves of Sassaperilla lately laden in the ship the Hope}
(Patrick Betts Master) and alsoe for the said ship the Hope and her tackle}
Apparrell and ffurniture, Smith Suckley Budd.}

Examined upon the
allegation ministred
on the behalfe of the
said claimers.

John Lopez of Cadiz in Spaine Merchant, aged 30 yeeres
or thereabouts sworne and examined

To the first and second articles of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth that in the monethes
of May and June of the yeare 1657 the producents Anthony ffernandez, John
Page, Gowen Painter and Antonio Robles had speech and communication with
this deponent (then in London) and told him that they had a designe to send a
shipp and cargo of goods from Amsterdam to the Spanish West Indias for
their account, and proposed to him to goe their factor or Sopracargo (assisted
by Peter Ailewoo[?r]d) to barter and truck away the said cargo and invest the
same in other merchandizes of the said Indias, and this deponent condiscending
to undertake the imployment, they provided a matter of seaven hundred
pounds worth of woollens, silkes and callicoes and sent the same in two shipps
from this port to Amsterdam, in one of which shipps this deponent together
with Patrick Betts (who was to goe master of the said shipp that soe was to proceed
on the said voyage) and in the other the said Peter Ailewood passed to Amsterdam
with the said goods soe sent, which were consigned to John Chanterwell and
John Tilly arlate who were to provide other goods there to make up the said
lading, and to buy a shipp there for the transportation thereof and bringing
back the proceed, and the said Aileward, Bets and this deponent safely arived
with the said goods sent hence, at Amsterdam in or about July 1657, And
further deposeth not saving what followeth.

To the third hee saith that after and upon their said arivall with the said
goods at Amsterdam the said John Chanterwell and John Tilley there bought
a certaine vessell called the Hope for the said Imployment, and diverse other
goods and merchandizes, which together with those [?conveied] hence were laded
aboard the said shipp for the said voyage. And when they were soe come to
Amsterdam this deponent was hense advised by his said Imployers that mr
Andrew dunkin (meaning mr dunkin one of the producents) was admitted partner
in the said adventure, and saith the said Chanterwell and Tilley having
disbursed mre moneys for the said shipp and lading provided at Amsterdam
than was remitted unto them by the said originall undertakers, they the said
Chanterwell and Tilley were in regard thereof alsoe admitted into the
said [?securitie]. soe that the said shipp was bought and laded with goods at
Amsterdam for the said voyage on and for the ioynt account of them the
said ffernandez, Page, Painter, Robles, dunkin, Chanterwell and Tilley.

To the fourth article hee saith and deposeth that the said Betts was
by all the said Imployers admitted and constituted master of the ssaid shipp
and this deponent and Aileward Sopracargo's of her for the said voyage
to whom the management of the said shipp and goods was by and for
account of the said Imployers committed to the end aforesaid namely to barter
away and invest the said outward cargo in goods of the Spanish West Indias
to be brought to the downes, where advice was to be expected from the
said Merchants of London or some of them, whether the said goods should
be dischardged in England or carried to Amsterdam, which hee knoweth
being the principall person entrusted and relied on by the said marchants
for the management of their said designe in the West Indies.

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