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The 31th day of August 1653.
Examined upo … The 31th day of August 1653.
Examined upon the sayd Allegation.
'''2.'''
'''Michael Perry Severino''' of Saint Lucar<br />
in Spaine merchant aged four and twenty yeares<br />
or thereabouts a witnes sworne and examined<br />
deposeth and saith as followeth. videlicet.
To the first article of the sayd Allegation This deponent saith that the arlate<br />
Christian Cloppenbergh master or Captaine of the ''Salvador'' in or about<br />
the beginning of October 1652 did lade aboard his sayd shipp then being<br />
in the bay of Cadiz for his owne accompt and att his adventure all and<br />
singular the goods and moneyes hereafter specifyed, that is to say eight<br />
butts of sherry sack marked with the first marke in the margent,
[FIRST MARKE, LH MARGIN]
three patashoes of Tobacco marked with the second marke in the margent
[SECOND MARKE, LH MARGIN]
one Chest of sugar without marke, one bagg of monet conteyning<br />
four hundred peices of eight coyne of Mexico marked with the third marke in
[THIRD MARKE, LH MARGIN]
the margent to be transported from thence to Ostend and there to be<br />
disposed for and to the use and accompt of him the sayd Christian<br />
Cloppenbergh, which sayd Cloppenbergh att the sayd tyme of lading<br />
and continually since, hath bene and now is the lawfull Owner and<br />
proprietor of the sayd moneys and goods and so accounted the premisses<br />
this deponent knoweth for tha the sayd Christian Cloppenbergh bought<br />
all the sayd wines at Xeris in Spaine of Pedro ffrancisco a merchant<br />
there who told this deponent that the sayd producent had payd for the same,<br />
and the sayd Cloppenbergh bought the sayd Tobaccoes of Manuel Corea<br />
a Spaniard a passenger aboard his shipp, who told this deponent a shipboard<br />
neere Cadiz, that he had receyved full satisfaction for the same. and<br />
a servant of Vincent del Campo a merchant of Cadiz acquainted this<br />
deponent att Cadiz that his sayd master had presented the sayd producent<br />
with the Chest of sugar above mentioned as a guift. and this deponent<br />
saw the sayd bagg of moneys tould att sea, the voyage in question before the<br />
seizure in the pecliar possession of him the sayd producent videlicet in<br />
his owne Chest in his Cabbin where this deponent likewise saw the<br />
same told and counted out of the sayd bagg into a Baskett and putt upp<br />
againe into the sayd bagg marked with the sayd marke videlicet '''VV'''<br />
And further saith that the producent then told this deponent that the<br />
sayd moneyes were his owne arising to him out of the freight of his<br />
shipp and merchandizes by him sold att Cadiz. And saith he saw<br />
the sayd wines sugars and tobaccoes laden att Cadiz as aforesayd<br />
And further he cannot depose.
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And further he cannot depose.
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