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[GUTTER XXXX] of the said ffernandez and c … [GUTTER XXXX] of the said ffernandez and company.
The answer of the said John Lopez to the Interrogatories. [INDENTED TO RH SIDE]
To the first hee saith hee was Cape merchant of the said shipp as<br />
aforesaid and when shee was in the West Indias, appeared Commander of her<br />
for the reasons aforesaid and was in her when shee came to Milford haven, but<br />
came not about thense in her to this port; And saith hee is a batchelour and<br />
hath noe familie, and (saving when hee hath bin voyaging at sea) hath lived for<br />
the most part of theise six yeares in and about this citie, whense hee hath bin<br />
imployed as a factor for Marchants thereof, And hath noe share or interest in<br />
the shipp or goods in question, nor any relation by kindred or otherwise to the producents,<br />
otherwise than by being imployed and trusted by them for the management of this<br />
voyage, which hee hath faithfully performed (as hee saith) according to the said<br />
trust reposed in him; That hee is a Spanaird by nation, borne in Cadiz<br />
in the Realme of Spaine.
To the second Interrogatorie hee saith and deposeth that hee was present at<br />
the buying of the said shipp the ''Hope'' and of the goods of her outward voyage<br />
that were bought at Amsterdam and saw the same paid for by mr Tilly<br />
and mr Chanterwell, and hee was present at the buying of most of those<br />
that were soe provided here and sent hense, and saw the payment therefore<br />
by mr ffernandez and mr Page, who paid alsoe for the rest here bought.<br />
And saith that there were noe goods for the account of the said Imployers carried<br />
out in the said shipp then what are mentioned in the schedule interrogated, but<br />
for Jeromo Otto, Patrick Betts and others of the shipp, hee saith they had goods<br />
aboard which are not therein mentioned, they not concerning this deponent<br />
who kept the account for the Imployers; And otherwise negatively saving<br />
his foregoeing deposition to which hee referrs.
To the third hee saith that the said shipp and outward cargo were bought and<br />
provided upon and for the ioynt account of all the said claimers, and the said<br />
homewards lading belongs unto them upon ioynt account, and to be shared<br />
by and amongest them according to each mans stock and proportion, and<br />
if any part of the said homewards lading had bin left or miscarried, such losse had<br />
fallen upon them all, and was to have bin borne according to each mans said<br />
stock and proportion.
To the fourth hee saith that in case the said shipp had bin ordered to have<br />
carried and had carried the said homewards cargo to Amsterdam there would<br />
benefit as hee conceiveth have redounded to this Commonwealth, in regard<br />
that diverse of the subiects thereof were therein concerned and were to have<br />
the most of the proffit of the said cargo, as being therein most interessed; and<br />
might probably have invested the proceede of such their interest in other<br />
marchandizes and im[?ported] the same, and soe have brought immediate advantage<br />
to this Commonwealth; And saith the said John Chanterwell and John Tilly<br />
being friends of this Commonwealth and the said Tilly a subiect thereof,<br />
hee conceiveth their oarts in the said goods if they had bin brought in hether,<br />
would have bin in noe danger of confiscation, noe more than the parts of<br />
mr Page and the other English would have bin at Amsterdam, in case of going<br />
in thether. And otherwise hee cannot answer.
To the 5th hee cannot answer.
To the 6th hee cannot answer for hee was not at Milford when the said<br />
shipp was brought thense, but conceiveth that both shipp and ladeing were<br />
then in possession of the officers of this State, in whose possession this<br />
deponent left them upon his last comming thense.
To the seaventh hee saith that hee staid about two dayes aboard the said shipp<br />
at Milford haven after her arivall there (by reason of badd weather) before<br />
hee came ashore, but came not to the Thames in her from Milford haven;<br />
And saith that the necessary utensills of plate and fowre or five peeces of eight<br />
by him formerly deposed to be by him brought out of the said shipp to bneare<br />
his charges thense to London, amounted to about eight or tenn pounds<br />
sterling, and saving that hee brought noe other goods nor money out of the shipp<br />
nor knoweth of any brought out by any other. And otherwise referreth himselfe to his<br />
foregoeing deposition. to his<br />
foregoeing deposition. +
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