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15th July 1657
Clements et al con Goram}& … 15th July 1657
Clements et al con Goram}<br />
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'''Edwardus Peters''' de Dorobornia in Comitatu Kenty mercator<br />
aetatis 25 annorum aut circiter testis in hac parte productus<br />
iuratus et examinatus./
Ad primum et 2um arlos allegacionis ex parte dru Goram et secorum 12 die<br />
[?mensis] Anno domini 1637 ia instan dicit et deponit That<br />
for these two yeares last past or thereabouts ever since the wars<br />
begann betwixt ffrance and Spayne, there hath bene trade and<br />
commerce betwixt the merchants of france and Spayne, but not in<br />
their owne names, but it is a usuall course amongst merchants when they lade<br />
goods in Spayne for the accompte of any ffrench merchants to consigne<br />
them and to direct their letters which they intended should have bene sent in to ffrance unto some merchant or merchants at Antwerpe or other parts<br />
of fflanders, and to inclose such letters in some other letters<br />
which they sent into England, for that if they should lade any<br />
goods moneys or merchandizes in Spayne or Portugall and consigne<br />
them unto ffrench men in ffrance, if it were made<br />
knowne in Spayne or Portugall, such goods should be confiscate and<br />
and the lader therof should be punished ir in great danger<br />
about the same<br />
The premisses he knoweth to be true<br />
for that he this deponent livinge at Dover and beinge imployed both by<br />
merchants of Antwerpe and other parts of fflanders and alsoe by<br />
ffrench merchants, hath mant tymes since the warrs begann betweene<br />
ffrance and Spayne, received many goods which have bene laden in<br />
Spayne in rei veritate for the proper accompte of ffrench merchants<br />
livinge in ffrance, although in the bills of ladinge of such goods, it<br />
hath bene sayd that the same were for the accompte of some merchante<br />
or merchants of fflannders, and the letters which came with such goods have<br />
bene directed to a merchant or merchants of Antwerpe and other parts<br />
in fflanders, wheras the sayd letters doe not concerne such person or persons<br />
to whome they are directed, but were intended to be delivered to<br />
some merchant or merchants of ffrance, and soe much is well knowne<br />
unto merchants or factors that are imployed in England by ffrench<br />
and Spanish merchants And this he affirmeth uppon his oath to be<br />
true et alr nescit deponere
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