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To the 9th hee saith hee thgis rendent can speake spanish and English but was not at Mallega the time interrate./ To the 4th negatively. To the 5th negatively; saving this rendent whilest hee was at Mallega aforesaid in the house of the said ffrancisco Lorenzo de Lara, did then and there in the said ffrancisco's hands see and peruse a letter or letters sent from the said ffrancisco's sonne then at Madrid importing that his said ffather was there condemned to pay the said 2000 duckats upon the occasion predeposed, notwithstanding that hee had used all possible endeavour and had twice in person petitioned the king in that behalfe which not availing, the said ffrancisco by an Order from Madrid was arrested at Mallega upon the Placa, and then forced in part to pay five hundred duckats or thereabouts, as hee declared to this deponent the same evening that hee was so arrested./ Geo Haughton [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] ********************************* The thirteenth day of February 1654:-/ [CENTRE HEADING] The Clayme of Arnold Beake and Elias Beake} and Company for the shipp the ''Saint John Baptist''} of which John Claesson was Master and the} goods lately seized in the same by Major Sedgwicke} and others. Suckley. Budd} Examined upon an Allegation exhibited on the behalfe of the said Arnold Beake and Company '''jus./''' '''John Claesson''' of dantzicke Mariner late Master of the said shipp the ''Saint John Baptist'' aged 36. yeares or thereabouts a Wittnes sworne and examined saith as followeth videlicet:- To the first Article of the said Allegation hee saith and deposeth, That in the moneth of January in the yeare 1653. arlate, the shipp the ''Saint John Baptist'' arlate, whereof this deponent then was Master about two moneths or upwards before the Conclusion of a peace between this Commonwealth and the States of the United Netherlands sett saile with a Cargoe of goods from the Port of dover upon the Voiage wherein shee was seized, And saith, That at such time as the said shipp sett and thence upon the Voiage in Controversie, there was very great and apparent danger of the seizure of English Vessells and goods belonging to the English, diverese whereof were in or about that time seized and confiscated by the dutch under that nation, Which hee saith was and is publique and notorious amongest Merchants and Mariners of this Nation, and that hee knoweth the premisses to be true for that hee went out and continued Master of the said shipp till the seizure in question which happened upon the 28th of March new style or 18th old style next ensuing after such her setting forth. And further cannot depose./:-
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