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To the 4th article hee saith. that at or s … To the 4th article hee saith. that at or soone after<br />
the seizure of the said ship ''Santa Maria'', this Deponent<br />
Comanded the said John Van Lynen and John Moller<br />
on board his said ffrigot the ''ffairfax'', and Did<br />
there require them to produce all such papers as<br />
might give this Deponent any satisfaccion that the<br />
ship and her Lading did (as they pretended) belong<br />
to Hollanders and in particular this Deponent did<br />
demand of John Moller. the Instructions which hee<br />
brought with him out of Holland from his<br />
pretended Imployers and the order which hee<br />
received at Santa Cruze for the making of his foure[GUTTER]<br />
bills of Lading; (whereby hee was engaged to deliver<br />
the goods in the said ship at Amsterdam ) and In[struct GUTTER]<br />
=ing him to deliver the said Goods at Cadiz: but [GUTTER]<br />
the said John Moller a long time Denied to<br />
this Deponent that hee ever had any Instructions in writing<br />
saying that the management of the whole Voyage<br />
was left solely to him, but this Deponent Pressing the<br />
Contrary by his owne experience that merchants<br />
did not adventure their estates in the hands of the<br />
ffactors whom they sent abroad without giving them<br />
Instructions; in writing howe to manage[the GUTTER]<br />
same, the said Moller then confessed that hee [had GUTTER]<br />
throwne the same overboard, as is declared in [this GUTTER]<br />
deponents foregoeing deposition to the fourth article of the allegation<br />
dated the 13th day of Aprill 1659. And for the said<br />
order, which the said Moller pretended to have received<br />
at Santa Cruze, for his coming to Cadiz instead of<br />
Amsterdam, hee the said Moller did never produce<br />
the same, or any copy thereof to this deponent but<br />
told this Deponent that it was only wrote in a letter<br />
to a merchant resident at Santa Cruze that when<br />
the said ship ''Santa Maria'' should arrive there<br />
hee should order the said Mollar to saile with<br />
said ship and Lading to Cadiz where he should<br />
receive further orders or to that effect which this<br />
deponent could not beleeve, finding nothing under [GUTTER]<br />
to that purpose, and although hee this Deponent pressed it much<br />
yet nothing thereof appeared, but the said Mollar told him<br />
hee should see them come out of Holland, And<br />
further cannot depose./:<br />
Tot;
further cannot depose./:<br />
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