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Dutch miles from Hamburgh, and hath by com … Dutch miles from Hamburgh, and hath by common report lived in Hamburgh<br />
for about 20. yeares before this deponent came to serve him./
To the 4.th hee saith hee was last at Hamburgh at Whitsuntide last, And [?about]<br />
that time went from thence to Roane in ffrance for the occasion of buying the<br />
goods now Claimed by his Masters order, and saith hee was never in ffrance<br />
before this time, and sailed thither in the shipp the ''Saint George'' of Hamburgh<br />
George Schoonmaker Master./
To the 5th hee saith, That hee this rendent bought all and singular the goods<br />
predeposed of severall Merchants at Paris and Roane, and immediately upon<br />
the buying thereof paid for the same with ready money, Which this rendent receaved<br />
of Charles Morin a ffactor who, in regard this deponent understood not the ffrench<br />
tongue, was employed to receive the said moneys at Paris upon bills of exchange sent from<br />
Hamburgh by one Labiestraet a Burgher and inhabitant there bu the direction of<br />
the producent, and saith hee this deponent received also of the said ffactor 1200<br />
crownes which the producent had formerly remaining in the hands of his said ffactor<br />
and this deponent saith hee also carried with him from Hamburgh to ffrance about<br />
10. or 11 ''lb'' of Paternoster beades, some pruning hookes, and certaine boxes of<br />
course silver which hee there also sold and disposed of for the said producents<br />
accompt, and employed the proceed thereof towards payment of the goods in question<br />
and saith the said bills of exchange were paid about the moneth of July last<br />
past And otherwise saving his<br />
deposition to the first article of this allegation to which hee referreth) hee cannot further depose./:-
To the 6: hee saith, That hee this rendent packed up all the goods in question by<br />
him predeposed in his lodgeing at Paris and at the Custome howse [?XXX] and Roane, and<br />
caused the marke to be sett upon them by those that helped him to packe<br />
the same, and saith the same is the usuall marke of the said producent of<br />
this deponents certaine knowledge by ten yeares experience n which time this deponent<br />
hath seene severall goods of the same marke received at and transported from<br />
Hamburgh for teh said producents accompt at severall times, the particular time<br />
ths deponent remembreth not/
To the 7.th hee saith, That upon the buying of the goods predeposed of severall<br />
Merchants hee caused presently ffactories or accompts to be made respectively,<br />
by the severall Merchants for the severall quantities hee bought of them in or about<br />
the moneths of July and August last past, and sent the same over land by the<br />
Poast to his said Master at Hamburgh where they are now as he beleeveth<br />
and saith this deponent made an extract out of the said factories, and entred<br />
a greate part of the said goods into a booke, which booke this deponent put into the<br />
Case predeposed numbred 8, and saith hee remembreth not what the said goods<br />
cost or of what Colour they were otherwise then as is predeposed. And otherwise<br />
negatively./
To the 8.th hee saith the interrate Claus Lüys hath oftentimes caused<br />
goods wares and Merchandizes to be bought both in Holland and ffrance<br />
for his owne accompt, but beleeveth not any Correspondence or partnership [?XXXX<br />
with any Dutch or ffrench subjects of the king of ffarnce or States<br />
(Generallof ffarnce or States<br />
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