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The 10th of June 1653. [CENTRE HEADING]
T … The 10th of June 1653. [CENTRE HEADING]
The claime of the said Pinquett for}<br />
his goods in the ''Sampson'', ''Salvador'' and}<br />
''Saint George''.}
Examined upon the foresaid allegation and<br />
schedules.
'''2.'''
'''ffrancisco Boesdonck''' Cashier and Booke-keeper<br />
of James Pinquett the partie producent aged 20 yeares<br />
or thereabouts sworne and examined.
To the first and second articles of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth<br />
that hee well knoweth the producent Jacques Pinquet and hath soe<br />
donne for theise foure yeares and a half last past, during which time hee hath lived<br />
with and bin servant to him said Jacques, and hath bin his cashier and<br />
booke keeper for all the time arlate and thereby and the reasons following<br />
hee well knoweth as hee saith that hee the said producent was and is<br />
the true, lawfull and sole owner and proprietor of all and singular<br />
the money plate and silver mentioned in the 12 schedules or bills of<br />
lading annexed to the said allegation and nowe showed unto him, and for such<br />
commonly accompted and reputed. And saith the said producent for all<br />
the said time of this deponents said knowledge of and dwelling with<br />
him, hath lived in and bin and is a merchant of Antwerp, where<br />
as this deponent hath bin informed hee dwelt eleaven or twelve yeares<br />
before this deponents comming soe to dwell with him, and was and is<br />
a native of [?Courin] in fflanders, and kept his wife and familie in<br />
Antwerp and was and is a subiect of the kinge of Spaine ad for<br />
such commonly accompted and reputed, And saith that for all rge said<br />
time of this deponents dwelling with him, hee the said producent<br />
hath driven and still doth drive a greate trade and commerce to<br />
Cales and Saint Lucar for money and plate but especially to Cadiz, and hath had<br />
and hath his factors there residing, who receive his goods sent from<br />
fflanders, and send him retournes thereof in plate and moneys, and that<br />
within theise two yeares last past the said producent hath sent from<br />
fflanders to his said factors to Calez many and greate quantities of<br />
goods to be there disposed of and sold by them for the uying and getting<br />
silver and plate to be sent in retourne thereof by them to him to fflanders,<br />
which hee knoweth being his servant as aforesaid, and acquainted with the<br />
buying packing and sending away such goods for Spaine to his said<br />
factors, and making the entries and keeping the accompts thereof<br />
and coppying the letters of order and advise sent to the said factors<br />
thereabouts. And otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the third dourth and fifth bills of lading or schedules aforesaid annexed<br />
hee saith and deposeth that within the time arlate and more particularly<br />
in or about the monethes of August and September last past the said<br />
producent by his respective factors Maximillian de hogh and ffrancis de la Sierpe<br />
at Cadiz did lade and put aboard the severall shipps arlate the<br />
severall quantities and summes of plate and silver mentioned<br />
and expressed in the said bills of lading annexed and marked and<br />
numbred as in the said bills is specified, namely on board the<br />
shipp the ''Sampson'' Otto George master three baggs No. 11. 12. 13 each
[FIRST MARKE, LH MARGIN]
with four hundred peeces of eight, old Peru [?mine], marked with the first<br />
marke in the margent, alsoe one barr of silver no. 2. weighing 104
[SECOND MARKE, LH MARGIN]
markes and two ounces of the second marke in the margent. More<br />
one bagg No. 9. with a thousand pattacones or peeces of eight, all
[THIRD MARKE, LH MARGIN]
of New Peru specie of the third marke in the margent. more fourteene<br />
small barrs of silver weighing together ninetie eight
[FOURTH MARKE, LH MARGIN]
marks seaven ounces and three eighth parts of the fourth marke, and more three barrs of silver
[FIFTH MARKE, LH MARGIN]
weighing together 357 markes and three ounces of the fifth marke in the margent<br />
Andfifth marke in the margent<br />
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