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the sayd Chests with table plate mentioned … the sayd Chests with table plate mentioned in the sayd third schedule arlate,<br />
All for the sayd John Mexia de Herrera his owne proper use and Accompt <br />
to be carryed and transsported from therre in the sayd respective shipps to<br />
Ostend in Fflanders upon the sole Adventure of this the sayd John Mexia de<br />
Herrera and there to be delivered to himselfe or his Agents for his use <br />
and Accompt the premisses this deponent knoweth to be true by the declaration <br />
of the sayd John Mexia himselfe at Cadiz whom he knoweth to be the true <br />
of the sylver as aforesayd, and standing upon the shoare or Strand <br />
att Cadiz where he save the money and plate laden on the respective shipps <br />
as aforesayd, putt into severall boates, and saw the boates arrive at the sayd <br />
shipps respectively and att theire retturne saving the papers of receipts <br />
wherein the sayd Masters acknowledged to have receyved and taken <br />
aboard their respective shipps the moneys in manner above <br />
specified. And he further saith that the sayd John Mexia de Herrera <br />
together with the deponent shipped himselfe in the ''Saint George'' aforesayd<br />
to come along in her from Cales to Ostend and was in her together with <br />
this deponent at the time of seizure by the Parliaments shipps. And<br />
further he cannot depose.
To the third he saith that after the lading of the sayd moneys and plate and<br />
goods as aforesayd, the sayd Shipps ''Salvador'' ''Salvador'' and ''Saint George'' vist<br />
about the beginning of October 1652 did depart and set sayle from Cales <br />
towards Ostend and in their course thither moore the Downes were taken <br />
and surprized by some of the Parliaments shipps and brought up to this port <br />
of London, And saith that att the time of the sayd surprizeall the aforesayd severall<br />
and respective parcells of money sylver and other goods were and remained<br />
aboard the sayd respective shipps, and by meanes of the sayd seizure came <br />
into the possession of the Takers, this deponent being aboard the ''Saint George'' <br />
att the seizure aforesayd and having in her sayled in Company with the other <br />
Shipps into or were the Downes as aforesayd.
To the fourth and fiifth Article of the sayd Allegation he saith and deposeth <br />
that after the lading of the sayd money plate and goods as aforesayd videlicet<br />
upon or about the thirteenth day of October 1652 new stile he this deponent <br />
being aboard the sayd shipp ''Salvador'' in the Bay of Cadize then and there <br />
saw him master of the sayd shipp Christian Cloppenburgh signe three<br />
Bills of lading all of one tenor for the Chest of Ryalls of eight laden <br />
aboard the ''Salvador'' as aforesayd whereof the Bills of lading having this <br />
name Christian Cloppenburgh att the foot thereof annexed to the allegation <br />
and now showne him is one, and was delivered to the sayd John Mexia<br />
de Herrera to carry along with him, and one other of the same tone was then <br />
left with and aboard the sayd shipp ''Salvador''. And he verily believeth <br />
that the arlate Otto George about the beginning of October aforesayd laden<br />
aboard the ''Sampson'', and that the sayd John Martindorp about the same <br />
tyme signed three bills of lading all of one tenor for all the goods plate<br />
and sylver laden aboard the ''Saint George'' as aforesayd the sayd chests or trunkes of<br />
table plate with table linnen only excepted, for that he this deponent <br />
saw two bills of lading in the hands of the producent aboard the<br />
''Saint George'' having the name of the sayd Captaine att the foot of them<br />
respectively vicdelicet one of them the name Otto George and the other the name John Martindorp he this deponent well knowing their character and manner of<br />
writing, And saith he is assured that the Bills of lading to the <br />
allegation annexed one signed Otto the other John Martindorp. and now showne him are the very same Bills which he<br />
saw in the possession of the producent a ship board as aforesayd, And further <br />
referring himselfe to the Acts of this Court he cannot depose.o the Acts of this Court he cannot depose. +
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