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[THIS PORTION OF DEPOSITION NULLIFIED WITH A SINGLE LARGE CROSS] Nunez for about 7. or 8. yeares last past And saith the said ferdinando Nunez was not at Cadiz during the time the said shipp ''Salvadore'' remained there, (so farr as this rendent knoweth) but saith this rendent received the said three Cerons of Cutchineale on board his said shipp ''Salvadore'' at or neere Cadiz in Spaine, the said goods according to the relation of the Barquiers who brought the same from Sevile to Cadiz, being sent by the said ferdinando Nunez from Sevill to bee transported therein for the said ffardinandoe Nunez his accompt, and to that purpose this deponent by himselfe or his Purser signed three bills of lading all of one tenor one whereof was seized aboard his said shipp, and remaineth now, as this rendent beleeveth, in the Registrie of this Court, and thereto this rendent saith hee referreth himselfe, and remembreth not particularly at present, (it being about three yeares since) by whom the said Cerons were laden otherwise then as aforesaid, And further cannot depose, saving that the said ferdinando Nunez was and is generally accompted a Portugueze borne, and hath lived and been a Merchant of great quality in Sevill ever since this rendents first knew him. To the last hee saith hee doeth not knowe, neither is hee concicted in Conscience to beleeve otherwise then that the said three Cerons of Cutchineale doe really and truely belong to the said ferdinando Nunez and to no other person or persons whatsoever that were or are Subject or Subjects of the States or king interrate:- Repeated before doctor Clerke:-/ Christian Cloppenbo[?XX] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] [END OF SINGLE LARGE CROSS] ****************************** The 29th of June .1655.: [CENTRE HEADING] The Lord Protector against the shipp the ''hope'' of} Amsterdam, whereof John Cornelison Prince} was Master Budd} Examined upon Certaine Interrogatories ministred in the behalfe of his highnesse the Lord Protector:- '''Holden Dt.''' '''John Cornelisen Prince''' of der Schellingen in holland mariner Master of the said shipp the ''hope'' aged 58. yeares or thereabouts sworne and examined saith as followeth videlicet/ To the first hee saith, That hee this rendent hath been Master of the shipp the ''hope'' interrate since November last past, and first became Master of her at Medenblick in holland, and saith this deponent was constituted Master of her by Jaspar Albrechtsen Vooch[?t], herman hendricksen, and Gerritt de [?Minibes] all Merchants and Burghers of Amsterdam, and the true and lawfull Owners of the said shipp and of her tackle apparrell and furniture, which as hee hath understood, the said Owners bought from other precedent Ownerss whom hee knoweth not, and saith hee saw noe money payd for the said shipp, And saith the said shipp is a very ould shipp and that it is notorious that shee hath alwaies belonged to the Port of Amsterdam, but what former voyages see hath made hee saith hee knoweth not And as to the authority of the Owners aforesaid, who did constitute this rendent Master thereof, hee saith hee cannot otherwise answer then that the said Owners were and are generally and commonly knowne at Amsterdam (to be
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