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The 2d of Aprill <u>.1655:-</u> … The 2d of Aprill <u>.1655:-</u> [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined upon the said Libell/:
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'''Juan de Sanpelayo''' of Mallega in Spaine Merchant<br />
aged 48. yeares or thereabouts a Wittnesse sworne and<br />
examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet./
To the first and second articles of the said Libell hee saith, That hee this deponent<br />
knoweth not nor can depose any thing as to the name of the Master, or<br />
shipp or proprietie lilate, neither knoweth hee any thing of the time of the<br />
arrivall of the shipp lilate. And therefore saving his subsequent deposition to<br />
which hee referreth himselfe hee saith hee cannot depose./
To the third hee saith, That in or about the yeares <u>1651.</u> last past some procee<br />
dings being had in the Court of the Royall Admiraltie of the Port of Mallega<br />
in Spaine by the fiscall of that Court against the producent ffrancisco Lorenzo<br />
de Lara for and concerning the goeing away of a certaine English shipp out of<br />
that Port without Licence, and contrarrie to security entred into by the said<br />
producent, and the said Cause having by the fiscall of that place been appealed<br />
to the high Court at Madrid, the said producent was there condemned<br />
and afterwards upon an execution issued out of the said high Court of<br />
Madrid againt the person and goods of the said Lorenzo de Lar, by Vertue<br />
whereof the said producent was personally apprehended, and his hoods seized<br />
upon in order to the satisfaction or payment of Two Thousand ducketts forfeited<br />
by the said Lorenzo de Lara as fidussor for the said English shipps not<br />
departing from Mallega without due licence as aforesaid: And thereupon the<br />
said ffrancisco Lorenzo de Lara by his adresses to the Viador or Judge of<br />
the said place procured a respite of 6. moneths for the payment of the said [?summe]<br />
or preventing, the payment thereof, if possible, but saith that by a second decree<br />
from the said high Court of Madrid, the said producent was constrained<br />
and did actually pay the said Two Thousand duckatts and for the use of<br />
his Royall Majesties of Spaine as being forfeited upon the occasion aforesaid<br />
and this deponent by the Councill of Warr of Mallega was ordered to receive the<br />
said summe to the use aforesaid, being then thereunto entrusted by Don Pedro de [?XX]<br />
Funes then Viador of that place by his Catholique Majestie And saith this deponent<br />
then observed, by the bookes and records of the Registry of the said Viador<br />
that the said Two Thousand duckatts were so ordered to be payd by<br />
meanes of the breach of Contract of a Commannder of an English shipp<br />
which some time before had without licence departed out of that port. And<br />
further cannot depose, saving the said 2000. duckats were payd to the [?Corruridor] and Judge of<br />
the Contraband goods at Mallega, who succeeded the said don Pedro de Funes in the said office of [?Veedor]
To the 4th and 5th hee saith hee knoweth nothing thereof:
To the 6th hee referreth himselfe to the Law, And further cannot depose
To the 7th hee saith hee referreth himselfe to the Acts and proceedings<br />
of and in this Court and Cause And further cannot depose
To the 8th hee saith, his foregoeing deposition is true./
To the Interrogatories/ [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith, That hee cometh to bee a Wittnesse<br />
and to declare the trueth of his knowledge in this Cause at the<br />
(instancein this Cause at the<br />
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