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producent and so accounted which this depo … producent and so accounted which this deponent knoweth being his<br />
Acquiantance and correspondent. And saith hee saw the sayd ffrancis<br />
Bodkin att Bilboa soone after the lading of the sayd moneyes wrote<br />
signe and direct a letter to the sayd John Bodkins att Nantes<br />
touching the sayd moneyes the particular contents of which letter<br />
hee now remembreth not. And saith he is fully persuaded and well<br />
assured that noe Subiect of the States of the united provinces King<br />
of ffrance or any Prince or State in hostility with this Commonwealth<br />
had or hath any share or interest in the sayd moneyes or any part thereof<br />
And saith he never heard that the sayd ffrancis Bodkin was or is<br />
a subiect of any such Prince or State, or of the States of the sayd<br />
united Provinces or King of ffrance, but beleiveth he is a subiect of<br />
the Commonwealth, and so ought to be and is accomted. And otherwise<br />
he cannot depose.
To the nynth article of the sayd allegation This deponent saith and deposeth that<br />
after the lading of the sayd moneyes as aforesd the sayd shipp ''Saint Peter''<br />
departed therewith from Bilboa and in her Course thither was seized<br />
by Captaine Wills and Company, in the shipp ''Handmaid'', And the sayd<br />
moneyes now claymed were then aboard the sayd shipp and came into<br />
the hands and possession of the sayd Wills and Company. the premisses<br />
he knoweth to be true being aboard the sayd shipp as a passenger<br />
att the tyme of the sayd seizure. And otherwise cannot depose.
To the tenth article of the sayd allegation this deponent saith tht the arlate<br />
John Bodkin was and is an Irishman borne and so accounted and<br />
in June last and for many years before and since the sayd tyme was<br />
and is an Inhabitant of Galloway in Ireland and hath his wife children<br />
and family there, and was and is a subiect of this Commonwealth<br />
living under the protection thereof and so accounted, and never was<br />
or is a subiect of the States of the united Provinces or of the King<br />
of ffrance or of any Prince or State in hostility with this Commonwealth<br />
that this deponent knoweth or ever heard. the premisses this deponent<br />
knoweth being himselfe of Galloway and by his Correspondencyes<br />
he holdath there. And otherwise he cannot depose
To the 11th hee saith his depositions are true
To the Crosse Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING]
'''Smith dt.'''
To the 1. he saith he comes to be a witnes att the Request of Daniel Arthur<br />
and hath knowne the producent from his Childhood. and otherwise negatively
To the 2. he saith he is an Irishman, and is not bound as he beleiveth to<br />
discover his conscience in poynt of Religion, and is a Merchant factor<br />
without a settled aboad, and from the yeare 1642. to 1646. lived in<br />
fflanders. from 1646. to 1652 in the beginning thereof lived in Holland<br />
and Zealand. and from April 1652. to July 1653 in Spain, from<br />
whence he came in July last and in the same month arrived in London, and<br />
here hath resided ever since. And otherwise negatively.ided ever since. And otherwise negatively. +
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