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The same day [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined up … The same day [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined upon the sayd Allegation
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'''Lorenzo de Veles''' of dunkirke in fflanders<br />
merchant aged eight and thirty yeares or<br />
thereabouts a witnes sworne and examined<br />
deposeth and saith as followeth. videlicet.
To the first and second Articles of the sayd allegation this deponent saith and<br />
deposeth that for and during the tyme arlate the sayd Christian Aelst and<br />
Jeronimo Brudgmans were and are the true and lawfull Owners of the<br />
moneys plate and sylver arlate by equall halfes or moyetyes, and so<br />
accounted; And this deponent saith that he saw att Cadiz in the hands of the<br />
said Jeronimo letters of Advise from the sayd Aelst wherein the sayd Jeronimo<br />
was ordered to turne and convert the effects he had in his hands upon their<br />
Accompt into plate and moneys, att Cadiz, and for somuch plate or moneys<br />
as he thought fit to procure and send to fflanders above the value of the<br />
sayd effects to draw Bills of exchange upon him the sayd Aelst in Cadiz<br />
And this deponent saith that he saw the sayd Jeronimo Brudgmans in<br />
the moneth of July buy att Cadiz of a Biscay merchant the four<br />
barrs of sylver arlate weighing according to the weight marked on<br />
them as the came marked from the Indies three hundred sixty six markes and<br />
five ounces, marked and numbred as in the margent; which sayd barrs<br />
were afterwards laden aboard the ''Salvador'' Christian Cloppenbergh master<br />
att Cadiz aforesayd as by the bills of lading for the same under the hand of<br />
the sayd Christian Cloppenbergh whoe character and manner of writing<br />
this deponent is well acquainted with, which this deponent afterwards saw<br />
att Cadiz did evidently appeare<br />
And allso in the moneth of September<br />
bought and procured att Cadiz three thousand seven hundred and fifty<br />
peices of eight coyne of Peru which were putt upp in fifteene baggs videlicet<br />
250 peices of eight in every bagg more or lesse marked as in the margent<br />
which he saw afterwards videlicet toward the latter end of September laden<br />
aboard the sayd shipp ''Salvador''; And moreover saith that the sayd<br />
Jeronimo Brugmans bought and procured att Cadiz three thousand peices<br />
of eight more coyne of Peru which were putt into twelve baggs<br />
videlicet into each and every bagg two hundred and fifty peices of eight more<br />
or lesse, marked as in the margent with the same marke the sayd fifteene<br />
baggs were marked with videlicet a large double crosse,<br />
sayd twelve baggs of money this deponent afterwards videlicet toward the<br />
latter end of September 1652 saw laden aboard the shipp ''Saint George'' arlate<br />
whereof John Martinsdorp was master, All the sayd moneys and barrs<br />
of plate for the use and Accompt in halfes as is arlate of the sayd<br />
Christian Aelst and Jeronimo Brudgmans to be carryed<br />
and transported in the sayd shipps respectively from Cadiz to Ostend, and there<br />
to be delivered unto the sayd Christian Aelst and Jeronimo Brudgman for their<br />
use and Accompt, or to their Order. And further he cannot depose
To the second and third he saith that att the tyme of lading the syd moneyes<br />
on board the sayd shipps respectively this deponent saw six bills of lading<br />
signed for the same. that is to say, the sayd John Martinsdorp signed<br />
aboardJohn Martinsdorp signed<br />
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