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to the said ffrancis de la sierpe and Pedr … to the said ffrancis de la sierpe and Pedro Johnson the yonger<br />
for lading the said silver and seeing and copying the said letters, and with<br />
the producents remitting goods unto them for the buying and providing thereof<br />
and seeing their letters of advise sent to the producent signifying<br />
the buying, providing and lading the said silver in the said shipp for<br />
his accompt, together with the bills of annexed inclosed therein, which<br />
hee sawe come to the producents hands, and sawe the said producent<br />
open the said letters and take the said bills of lading thereout, and<br />
after the said producent had read them this deponent tooke and reas the<br />
same. And saith hee is well acquainted with the hand writing of the<br />
said John de Vosse having seene many other bills of his firming,<br />
and verily beleiveth the said bills annexed to be firmed and signed by<br />
him, and saith hee hath seene the duplicates or exemplars of the<br />
said bills in the Registrie of this Court, as seized in the said shipp<br />
and from the said shipp brought in thither, And hee verily beleeveth<br />
the contents thereof to be true and soe had and done as therein<br />
is contained, and not to be in any wise coloured or fictitious<br />
And otherwise referreing himselfe to the said bills hee cannot depose.
To the fifth article hee saith and deposeth that in and for all the time<br />
arlate the said ffrancisco de la Sierpe and Pedro Johnson the<br />
younger have bub abd are the factors and agents of the said producent<br />
at Cadiz and for such commonly accompted and reputed and that for<br />
all the said time there hath bin and is correspondance and intercourse<br />
of letters betweene them in the matter of commerce, and this hee<br />
saith was and is true publique and notorious, which hee<br />
knoweth for the reasons aforesaid and otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the 6 and 7 hee saith that in or about the moneth of January last<br />
the said producent by his agents at Antwerp sent unto the said<br />
ffrancis de la Sierpe in the shipp ''Saint Albertus'' of Ostend (Joachim<br />
Cordes master) bound for Cadiz, laces to a good valew, and to the<br />
said Peter Johnson the younger linnens to a good valew in the shipp<br />
of hendrick Garfles of Ostend, which went thence for Cadiz about<br />
a fortnight before the ''Saint Albertus'', and both of them arived in safetie<br />
at Cadiz (as the said factors advised) and delivered the said goods to<br />
the said factors, to whom hee saith they were sent for the buying of the<br />
said silver, and they bought and provided the same therwith, as<br />
by their said advises. And hee knoweth of the providing and sending<br />
the said goods, for that hee this deponent (the producent being<br />
then here at London) managed that affaire of packing and<br />
sending them away, and saith the said linnens, were bought by Mr<br />
Boschaert himselfe before his comming for London, and the lace<br />
this deponent intreated Mr Pinquet (a friend of the producent at<br />
Antwerp) to buy for him the said producent, and all was for his<br />
the said producents accompt, yeelding a reason of his knowledge as<br />
aforesaid. And otherwise hee cannot depose, saving the producent [?alone]<br />
runneth the hazard and adventure of the said silver, and that [?none ?hath XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX]
To the 8th hee saith the said ffrancis de la Sierpe and Pedro Johnson<br />
the younger for theise seaven yeares last of this deponents knowledge<br />
have lived and doe live in Cadiz in the dominion of the kinge<br />
of Spaine, and for such commonly accompted and reputed, which hee<br />
knoweth because hee this deponent for five yeares together ended<br />
about two yeares since lived at Cales where hee was acquainted<br />
with them, and for the said two yeares hath seene frequent letters<br />
from them from Cadiz to the producent where this deponent liveth<br />
with him And saith the said Pedro Johnson the yonger was and<br />
is Johnson the yonger was and<br />
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