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The 30th of december 1658.
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The 30th of december 1658.
John Greene, John Parker, Aron)<br />
Mico and Alexander Bence against)<br />
the ''Lisbon frigot'' and ketcher)<br />
Suckley. Smith)
Examined upon an allegation given in on the<br />
behalfe of the said Greene and others<br />
the 22th instant.
'''Rp. 1'''
'''Charles Tey''' of Ligorne Mariner, aged 25 yeeres<br />
or thereabouts sworne and examined.
To the first and second hee saith hee well knoweth the arlate Bartholomew<br />
ketcher and the shipp the ''Lisbone frogot'' whereof hee saith that the XXXXX<br />
arlate the said ketcher was master and had the governance of her as master<br />
thereof of his sight and knowledge, And further cannot depose, not<br />
knowing ought of the Charterpartie or affreightment arlate, saving what<br />
followeth.
To the third 4 and 5th articles hee saith and deposeth that in the moneth of June last<br />
past the said shipp the ''Lisbone frigot'' was and remained in the port of Ligorne<br />
and that whiles shee was and soe remained there, hee saith there were loaded<br />
and put aboard her a cargo of oile, Rice, Silke, Silke stockings, turkey<br />
carpets, sope and other merchandizes to be thence transported to the Iland of<br />
Teneriff in the Canaries and there to be delivered to John Maria Basso<br />
and Jeronimo Basso or their agents, and saith the said lading was made<br />
at Ligorne by one mr Michael an English marchant and factor, and<br />
was said to be for the account of English merchants living in England, and<br />
the same were at the Canaries to be by the said John Maria Basso and<br />
Jeronimo Basso invested in logwood (as this deponent was informed by<br />
the merchant that loaded the same) which was to be brought in the said shipp<br />
to this port of London. And saith that the said merchant lader during such<br />
abode of the said shipp at Legorne, the better to secure her (being an English<br />
vessell) procured a passe or certificate from his highnes the grand duke<br />
of Tuscany, purporting that the said shipp belonged to Italians, subiects<br />
of the said duke, and calling her in the said passe the ''Santa Antonio di Padua'',<br />
and put this deponent (an Italian) Captaine of her, whose name was contained in<br />
the said passe as Captaine of the said vessell soe therein named the ''Santa Antonio''<br />
''di Padua'', all which was donne and shee was furnished with the said dukes colours to secure and preserve the said shipp the<br />
''Lisbone frigot'' and her lading from seizure by the Spaniards, in regard of<br />
the warres betwext England and Spaine, And being thus provided and<br />
furnished with the said passe (which this deponent had and still hath in<br />
his custody) the said shipp with the said goods and this deponent in her in<br />
the qualitie aforesaid departed from ligorne on the seaven and twentieth of<br />
June last new stile (or thereabouts) to goe to the Canaries and deliver the<br />
said goods to the said two factors or merchants there resident to whome they<br />
were consigned as aforesaid, and that shee arived at Oratavo in Tenereiff<br />
in or about the end of July or beginning of August the next following<br />
All which hee deposeth receiving the said passe, going the said voyage and<br />
ariving at Oratava in her.
To the sixth and seaventh and eighth hee saith that the said shipp and goods<br />
being soe arived at Oratava, this deponent went there ashore and carried the letters<br />
of advice and dispatches to the said John Maria and Jeronimo Basso and<br />
caused them to be delivered unto their corresponden and caused them to be ad?vertised of the said arrivall, ando be ad?vertised of the said arrivall, and +
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