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The fourth of ffebruary 1653.
The claime … The fourth of ffebruary 1653.
The claime of John Scothering and}<br />
Paul Logerman for their goods in the ''Peter''}<br />
Matthias Cornelison master.}<br />
Suckley. Budd.}
Examined upon the allegation on the<br />
behalfe of the said Claimers.
''',1.'''
'''Jacob Gevers''' of Hamborough Mariner aged [?XX]<br />
yeeres or thereabouts sworne and examined
To the first article of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth that hee well<br />
knoweth the producent John Scothering and hath soe donne for all the time [?XXXXX]<br />
[?XXX], during which space the said John Scothering hath lived and bin an<br />
Inhabitant of Hamborough wherein hee th said John was borne and was and<br />
is a subiect of that free state, and a marchant, and for theise eighteene<br />
or nineteene yeares last hath bin and is one of the Senators and Magistrates<br />
of that citie, and that hee was and is a greate dealer and trader and<br />
a merchant for ffrance Spaine, Italy, and into the Levant and most of the<br />
considerable places of trade in Europe and Asia, and to that purpose he had<br />
and hath many factors and correspondents in those parts unto whom hee<br />
useth to send, and to receive from them many and greate parcells and quantities<br />
of merchandizes, and for such a person as aforesaid, and a merchant<br />
of soe greate dealing hee the said John Scothering was and is Commonly<br />
accompted and reputed; All which hee knoweth being borne and having for<br />
all his time dwelt in Hamborough, where hee hath had speciall knowledge<br />
of the said Scothering, being a person of such eminence and dealings<br />
for that hee this deponent hath out and homewards in severall yeares<br />
and voyages carried many parcells of goods for him (in severall shipps<br />
whereof this deponent hath bin commannder and whereof hee the said Scothering<br />
hath bin part owner) for Spaine and into the streights and home<br />
againe, and having nowe goods for him brought from Venice in the<br />
''Wheele of ffortune'' by this deponents present shipp, and knowing of the<br />
goods that hee hath lately had in Peter Van dame, Thomas Utey[?XXX]<br />
Martin holst and other hamburger shipps from the streights from<br />
Marseilla, Ligorne, and Venice. And otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the second and sixth articles of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth<br />
that there hath bin for many yeares last and is a very eminent and<br />
considerable familie of merchants of greate accompt and dealing called<br />
and knowne by the name of the Solicoffers, being a familie of<br />
a dozen persons, brokers, cozen germans and Nephews of that name and<br />
have setled houses of factorie and merchandizes at Marseilla, Allicant<br />
Genoa, Lyons, and Wienen in Austria and other places, and that one<br />
of them named Tobias Solicoffer was<br />
and is Consul for the Hamburgers and other hansa townes at Marseilla,<br />
and saith they were and are Switzers by birth [?XX]<br />
and descending from Saint FGalo in Switzerland where ther principall<br />
residence is, and saith they are accustomed to proceede and come by two<br />
or three at a time from their said residence at Saint Galo's to Marseilla<br />
and Lyons, and to stay there three or four monethes and then returne or goe to other of their factories and<br />
other of the familie to come in their places, and after that manner or for<br />
longer or shorter time they use to supplie their other factories, All which hee<br />
knoweth having bin a whole yeare with them at Marseila, and having<br />
carried goods to them from Hamborough, and back againe, and particularlyborough, and back againe, and particularly +
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