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His said Master being a constant coorespon … His said Master being a constant coorespondent with him the<br />
sayd Vrymendt which letters to his sayd master this deponent usually<br />
receyves reades and answers in his masters behalfe And<br />
saith he saw the sayd [?XXXXX] and read the same before the<br />
sayd shipp departed from Dunkerke, And hath since seene the entry<br />
of the sale of the sayd goods in the sayd Vyrymendts booke of<br />
Accompts att Dunkerke, and there was present and heard the sayd<br />
Vrymendt declare upon his oath before a Notary Publique<br />
that the sayd serges were by him sold in manner above by this<br />
deponent sett forth; and likewise was (as this deponent remembreth or conceyveth<br />
that he was satisfyed for the same, or to that effect./ And moreover<br />
saith that he this deponent about 10 or 14 dayes next after the returne<br />
of his sayd master from Dunkerke to Rotterdam as aforesayd did receyve<br />
and read a letter of advise from the sayd Vrymendt certifying<br />
that he had laden the sayd goods according to the producents order for<br />
this the producents Accompt and that in the sayd Letter there was a<br />
bill of lading under the firme of the sayd Inglebert vabderzee<br />
for the same. And otherwise cannot depise saving that he hath<br />
since likewise heard the sayd vandersee acknowledge and confesse<br />
that the sayd goods were really laden aboard the sayd shipp in manner<br />
and for the Accompt aforesayd.
To the third Article of the sayd allegation this deponent saith that the sayd<br />
serges being the manufactures of this Commonwealth are prohibited<br />
and not permitted to be publiquely brought into the Dominions of the<br />
States of the Unites Provinces, and the sayd forty peices of<br />
serges were for that cause to have bene privately and secretly<br />
imported and conveyed to the sayd Henry Baldero and neither<br />
to have payd any Customes or other dutyes to the sayd States of<br />
the Unite Provinces, which he knoweth as well for that<br />
this deponent hath severall tymes secretly conveyed said like <br />
goods without paying Custome for feare of having them confiscated<br />
according to an Act of State there made in that behalfe, and have<br />
seene and onserved that severall English mannufactures that have<br />
bene seized have bene confiscate by vertue of the sayd Act of State<br />
and knoweth that this parcell of English manufacture now in question<br />
was designed to be secretly conveyed into Roterdam, and hath heard<br />
the foresayd Vandersee say that he had stowed the sayd stuffes in a<br />
convenient place in the sayd shipp on purpose that they might escape the<br />
searchers when his shipp should come into Port And otherwise he saith<br />
he cannot depose.
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