Requires image; transcribed on 28/10/2013
the said goods claimed came out of Persia, because hee this deponent was at Smyrna when the Caravan consisting of 350 camells, wherein the said goods were brought over land came and arived at Smyrna and sawe that the said goods came in the said Caravan, and otherwise saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot depose. To the sixth Interrogatorie hee saith and deposeth that all the said three claimers came alonge with the said Caravan from Persia to Smyrna, this deponent seeing there arivall there, and seeing them bringe the said goods in the said Caravan, and have them in their possession, and well knoweth that they came not out of the ffrench factorie at Smyrna nor were bought there, nore laden by ffrench men or any belonging to the said ffactorie, and well knoweth that the said claimers bore and ran the hazard and adventure of the said goods claimed from Smyrna to Ligorne, but the shipp being ffrench, the ffrench ran the hazard thereof. To the seventh article (sic) hee saith that hee sawe the said Captaine Andris signe the said bills of lading in the house aforesaid, the said Captaine sitting on one side of the table when hee did the same, and this deponent sitting on the other side and looking on him, and saith the said Captaine signed two bills of lading of one tenor for the goods aforesaid of each of the said claimers of which the said claimers left one a peece at Smyrna, to the end that if the other which they brought along with them should miscarry, they might send for and have the duplicate or other bill soe left at Smyrna, and hee did not see nor knoweth and his conscience beleeveth and thereupon durst [pXXXXX] his [?soule] that the said claimers nor any of them did not signe or give any writing or promise to the interrogated Michael Andris the fore siad Captaine to pay him for the said goods at Ligorne as is interrogated if they were safely delivered to them there, nor that they were to pay any ffrenchman or other there for the same, nor that there was ought to be paid by them at ligorne or elswhere after the said lading thereof, saving the meere freight for their transportation according to the bills of lading, and [?valuation] in the said aforementioned bill?s, And otherwise saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot depose./ To the eighth hee saith there were eight of the Parliaments shipps in the Squadron that tooke the said shipp the ''Saint Martin'' and her lading, and saith that after the said producents had bin kept aboard about tenn dayes (as hee remembreth the time) after the said seizure, they were by Captaine hall sent ashore in a boate at the Ile of ffa[?viniann] neare Trapany in Scicilia, which hee knoweth being alsoe sent ashore there in there company, and saith that only the said claimers and this deponent and the other [?foure] Armenians that are come alonge with them, and five other Armenian servants and some [?few] Maltese [?merchants] [ARMENIAN SCRIPT IN LH MARGIN, POSSIBLY A SIGNATURE] [XXX XXX XXX] were put ashore in that boate, and the same time the ffrench aboard were put into another boate to be sent ashore at Malta, And other wise hee cannot answer saving as aforesaid, [?saving] the names of the other foure Armenians who came alonge with them are two other Jacomo's, hogia Ma[?r]co, and hogia kemal, and the names of the said five servants were hara[XXXX], this deponents servant, harapatur servant to one of the said Jacomo's, Gregorio the servant of the said hogia Mar[?co], Baltazar the servant of the said S?e]fer, and herapade the servant of the said kemal, And otherwise hee cannot answer saving as aforesaid. To the nineth hee saith that since the said time [?of ?their] being put out of the said shipp as aforesaid this deponent hath not seene the said Captaine Andris nor any other of the ffrench thereunto belonging, and hee is well assured that the said claimers the producents nor any of them have alsoe not seene them, because hee this deponent was alwayes in their the said producents company after their said departing from the said shipp, nor did they the said captaine or any other ffrench man or men advise or perswade them to come for England to claime or persue the restitution of their said goods here in England, but they came thereabouts of their owne accord, and beare their owne chardges and expenses with money supplied them at Ligorne by their owne country men and
P1170480 (Image not found)
HCA 13/65 f.53r Annotate# QUERYdc58e175bb416bcabde4f34b62fc132f
[[Parent volume::HCA 13/65]] [[Folio::52]] [[Side::Verso]]
HCA 13/65 f.53r Annotate# QUERY203606b4b9be5ec948730bc3d3dc42e1
[[Parent volume::HCA 13/65]] [[Folio::53]] [[Side::Verso]]
HCA 13/65 f.53r Annotate# QUERYe84db11738d593d7b77ccc81dac5ea69
HCA 13/65 f.53r Annotate# QUERY5a1803e848d8f8c232f219ced21cc58a