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