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cargo or lading of merchandize consisting … cargo or lading of merchandize consisting in peace goods and hollands<br />
manufactures and other merchandize, to be transported in the said shipp<br />
from Amsterdam and the Texel aforesaid to Cadiz in Spaine, and<br />
there to be delivered for their use and accompt of them their factors or<br />
agents, to be there disposed of, which hee knoweth being as aforesaid<br />
master of the said shipp and receiving the same aboard and beong<br />
acquainted with the comming aboard of the whole cargo, And further<br />
deposeth not.
To the third article hee saith and deposeth that all and singular<br />
the parcells, packs of goods and merchandizes which were in and aboard<br />
the said shipp ''Marcus Aurelius'' at such time as shee was stayed at<br />
Plimouth in this her outwards bound voyage from Amsterdam were<br />
all laded aboard her at Amsterdam and in the Texel by the said<br />
Merchants living in Amsterdam and places in holland thereabouts, [?all]<br />
subiects of the said Lords the States of the United Netherlandsm who<br />
as hee saith had them in their quiet and peaceable possession in<br />
warehouses and [?Nerehouses] there before the said lading, this deponent<br />
seeing many of them in the said warehouses and merchants houses [?there]<br />
and seeing them thence soe laded aboard. And for owners of the said [?XXX]<br />
and cargo, hee saith the said laders were and are commonly accompted<br />
and reputed, and this hee saith is true and notorious, yeelding<br />
a reason of his knowledge as aforesaid.
To the fourth article hee deposeth and saith that the said shipp the ''Marcus''<br />
''Aurelius'' doth wholly belong to subiects of the said Lords the States<br />
of United Netherlands, and hath formerly used to trade from [?XXX]<br />
to Spaine and to retourne againe to Amsterdam for accompt<br />
of the said States, and saith that noe Spaniard or subiect of the [?kinge]<br />
of Spaine hath any interest in the said shipp, or did lade any [?XX]<br />
parcell of the said goods or merchandizes that were laded into and [?XXX]<br />
her, And this hee saith is alsoe true and notorious.
To the fifth article hee saith and deposeth that the said shipp the ''Marcus''<br />
''Aurelius'' was in one of her said former voyages from Amsterdam for<br />
Cadiz, imployed by a dutch merchant named Cornelius to goe from Cadiz to [?CXXX]<br />
in the West Indies, there to lade hides and carry them thence to [?Amsterdam]<br />
and at Amsterdam to deliver the said hides to John Coymans<br />
a dutch merchant there resident, and that accordingly this deponent went in<br />
the said shipp and received the said hides, and carried them to Amsterdam<br />
accordingly, and the said John Coyemans being dead, this deponent [?delivered]<br />
them to his widow and her order, And saith that while hee was [?at]<br />
the Canaries, hee had a Spanish flagg there provided for him to [?XXX]<br />
in regard the Spaniards would not have suffered the goods to have [?XXX]<br />
unlesse the said vessell had ridd with Spanish colours and [?seemed ?to be ?XX]<br />
and saith that this deponent being soe retourned to Amsterdam the said<br />
Cornelius who was then there gave the said flagg to this deponent (who offered it ?unto ?him]<br />
yupon such his retourne) and this deponent hath ever since kept it) And<br />
it is usuall for a m,archant to give the master of a shipp that is in her<br />
a flagg at [?XXXX] and [?other] places. And further deposeth not.[?other] places. And further deposeth not. +
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