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And saith that the bill of lading exhibite … And saith that the bill of lading exhibited annexed to the sayd allegation<br />
and now shewne him this Examinat was and is one of the sayd bills<br />
of laing, and the contents thereof were and are true and reall, and<br />
other wise referring himselfe to the Acts of this Court he cannot depose
To the fifth he saith he saw all Bilboa severall letters writt by the sayd<br />
factor David England and ffrances Bodkins directed to Patrick [?Browne]<br />
and Thomas Barnwell att Nantes for and touching<br />
the sayd moneyes, the particulars of which letters he remembreth not<br />
and as he remembreth there were some of the sayd bills of lading [?inclosed]<br />
in the sayd letters, And otherwise he cannot depose.
To the sixth he saith that for the reasons aforesayd he is assured that<br />
the sayd moneyes now claymed by the sayd Browne and Geraldine nor<br />
any part thereof did not nor doth belong to the subiects of the States<br />
of the united Provinces King of ffrance or any Prince or State in<br />
hostility with this Commonwealth, nor to any of them, and otherwise he<br />
cannot depose saving as aforesayd.
To the eighth article of the sayd allegation this deponent saith that the arlate David<br />
England ffrancis Bodkin and Thomas Barnewell were and are [?Irishmen]<br />
respectively and so accounted. And saith the sayd Barnwell resideth at<br />
Nantes as a Merchant Stranger, and this deponent doth not know or ever<br />
heard that the sayd persons or any of them is or ever was or were subiects<br />
of the States of the united Provinces King of ffrance or any Prince or<br />
State in hostility against this Commonwealth or that they or any of them was<br />
or were so accompted. And otherwise he cannot depose.
To the nynth article of the sayd allegation This deponent saith and deposeth<br />
that after lading of the sayd moneyes as aforesayd the sayd shipp [?did]<br />
sayle from Bilboa and in her Course for Nantes whither she was bound<br />
was seized by Captaine Wills and Company in the shipp ''Handmaid[?en]<br />
And saith the sayd baggs of moneyes now claymed by the producents<br />
were then aboard of the sight of this deponen who came a Passenger<br />
in the sayd shipp from Bilboa, and came into the possession and [?XX]<br />
of the sayd Takers, who still detaine the same, And otherwise he cannot depose.
To the tenth article of the sayd allegation This deponent saith that the producents<br />
are both of them Irishmen and subiects of this Commonwealth living under<br />
the protection thereof and so accounted, and the sayd Patrick Browne<br />
in June last was an Inhabitant of Galloway in Ireland, and the<br />
sayd Geraldine of Waterford in Ireland, and for dwellers and<br />
Inhabitants of and in the sayd places respectively the sayd producents<br />
have bene and are commonly accounted and reputed, And this deponent for<br />
his part never heard that eyther of them ever was or is a subiect of<br />
the States of the united Provinces King of ffrance or any Prince or [?King]<br />
in hostility against the Commonwealth or so accounted.
To the last he saith his depositions are true.
Toast he saith his depositions are true.
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