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shipp, sent per advijse to the said fernan … shipp, sent per advijse to the said fernandez, importing and<br />
expressing the said severall quantities and qualities of<br />
the goods soe laden for the said fernandez his proper accompt<br />
but also the letter of the Master of the said shipp sent to the said Mr<br />
fernandez importing as much, and knoweth that the said fernandez<br />
upon the receipt of the said Policarpio's said advise, did by a letter,<br />
which this deponent hath seene and copied, immediately informe and<br />
advertize his said Correspondents at Roan concerning the said<br />
severall quantities of sugars shumacks and Tobaccoes soe laden<br />
as aforesaid for his accompt./ And further to this article hee saieth<br />
he cannot depose./
To the 7th Article of the said Allegation hee saieth, That it is a thing<br />
publique and notorious by diverse and sundry letters of advise from<br />
Portugall, That not long after the buying and lading the said<br />
222. Chests of sugars, 113. baggs of shumacke, and fortie rowles<br />
of Tobaccoe's on board the said shipp the ''New England Merchant''<br />
the said goods were all seized upon by the Officers of the<br />
Inquisition at Porto Porto aforesaid, or other Ministers or<br />
Officers of the king of Portugall there, under the notion and as<br />
being the goods of the said Policarpio de Oliveira, and being there<br />
unladen and brought ashoare they were and are detained, and<br />
the said fernandez thereof deprived to his great losse and dammage<br />
and that the said seizure and detention was and is upon a<br />
pretence of some crime said to be committed by the said Policarpio<br />
de Oliveira. All which this deponent is assuredly convinced to be<br />
really and truely so, for that the said shipp is returned destitute<br />
and deprived of her said lading, which the Master thereof hath<br />
by letter before his retune, and since by word of mouth in this deponents hearing declared<br />
to have beene so done upon occasion or pretence as aforesaid<br />
And further to this Article he saieth hee cannot depose./
To the eighth Article of the said Allegation hee saieth, That the said<br />
goods, to witt the sugars shumack and Tobaccoes aforesaid were<br />
and are (since the buyeing and ladeing thereof in manner as aforesaid)<br />
really and truely the proper goods of the said Antonio fernandez<br />
Carvajall, and that he alone doeth and must stand to and beare<br />
the whole hazard and adventure of them, as this deponent upon the<br />
grounds and reasons of knowledge by him predeposed is most fully<br />
convinced and assured, and by and upon the like grounds and<br />
reasons, to witt the fundamentall disposall and carryeing on of the said voiage<br />
designe, the said Policarpio's advise to the said fernandez sent as<br />
(aforesaidd fernandez sent as<br />
(aforesaid +
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