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The 19th of december 1653. [CENTRE HEADING … The 19th of december 1653. [CENTRE HEADING]
The keepers et cetera against the ''Wheele of ffortune''}<br />
aforesaid.}
Examined upon the foresaid allegation<br />
and schedules.
'''2.'''
'''John Baptista de la Mot''' of Cadiz in Spaine Merchant<br />
aged 24 yeares or thereabouts sworne in Court and<br />
examined.
To the said allegation and schedule annexed, and to the tenn baggs therein mentioned<br />
said to containe each five hundred pattoacons No. 1. to 10 and to be marked [MARKE] and<br />
to the bill of lading thereof nowe showed unto him amongest the bills remayning<br />
in this Court as found aboard at the time of the seizure, hee saith and deposeth<br />
that on the 22th day of the moneth of October 165 last past the said tenn baggs of silver<br />
under the said marke and numbers and containing as aforesaid were laden aboard the said shipp the ''Wheele''<br />
''of ffortune'' in the port of Cadiz to be thence transported to Hamborough in the<br />
said shipp and there to be delivered to Albert Anquelman merchant of<br />
Hamborough for his the said Alberts accompt, and that upon the deliverey<br />
thereof aboard the said shipp there were three bills of lading (all<br />
of one tennor) signed for the same by Jacob Gevers master of the said vessell<br />
and that the said bill nowe showed unto him was and is one of the said bills<br />
and was and is true and reall, which hee knoweth to be true for that hee<br />
this deponent as partner of and weith ffrancisco de la Sierpe (mentioned<br />
in the said bill as lader hereof) told the said moneys, and put the same up into<br />
the said baggs, and sealed the same, and delivered them to the Barkero to be<br />
carried aboard the said shipp, which barquero having put them into his<br />
boate, this deponent went alsoe into the same boate, and went aboard<br />
the said shipp and delivered the same to the said master together with<br />
the three bills all of one tenor, which the said master in this depponents<br />
sight and presence signed aboard in the bay of Cadiz, which being donne<br />
this deponent (as the custom is in like cases) tooke two of them and<br />
left the third, being the said bill now showed unto him, with the said master<br />
to be brought alonge in the shipp, which hee well knoweth to be the same<br />
and to be filled up with the proper hand of the said ffrancisco de la Sierpe his<br />
this deponents said partner, with whose hand writing hee is very well<br />
acquainted, And otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the Interrogatories [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first hee answereth negatively.
To the second negatively, saying that there was noe license for the lading the<br />
said silver.
To the third and fourth hee saith that hee sawe the interrogated Otto hillibrant<br />
(whom hee well knoweth) at Cadiz while the said shipp was there as<br />
likewise the said de la Sierpe, and otherwise saving his foregoing deposition<br />
hee cannot depose, and saving hee doth not knowe any person by the<br />
name of William Johnson.
To the fifth hee saith the said silver is the proceede and retourne of wax<br />
linnen cloth, knives and other goods sent by the said Albert Anquelman<br />
in severall hamborough shipps to the said ffrancesco de la Sierpe to Cadiz<br />
and [?XXXXX] in the shippd of Daniell Straetman, haie sch[?orkar]<br />
and others in the space of a yeare two or three before the said lading<br />
by the said Ankelman as hee saith sending in almost every shipp that cometh<br />
from hamborough.
To the sixth hee saith that hee knoweth not either of the persons interrogated<br />
personally, but hath received letters from the said ffrancis Sloyer from Hamborough<br />
who principally (as hee taketh it) correspondeth with [?XXXX] Molastein of<br />
Cadiz whose Christian name or forename hee knoweth not
To the 7th hee knoweth that the foresaid silver by him deposed of was<br />
andlver by him deposed of was<br />
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