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Andrew Rand, And this deponent did att or … Andrew Rand, And this deponent did att or about the time aforesaid<br />
passe a solemne promise upon his voluntary oath before Velchior Vaz<br />
Ribero and John de Carvallo Merchants then being at the Bahia, wherein<br />
and whereby this deponent acknowledged the receipt of the said tenn Chests<br />
of sugar conteyning two hundred and fower arobes for the proper<br />
accompt of the said Andrew Rand, And that because there was then some<br />
difference and Controversie betwixt this Commonwealth and the king of<br />
Portugall, hee thsi deponent (out of his affection hee bore to the English Nation<br />
(as being himselfe discended from English Parents) would not disclose the said<br />
Tenn Chests of sugar to belong to the said Andrew Rand within any of the<br />
dominions of the king of Portugall, expressely to more preserve them form<br />
being rendred lyable to sequestration. And saith [?moreover], That the first<br />
schedule annexed to the said Allegation and now perused by the examinate was and is<br />
one of the said orginall bills of ladeing filled up and firmed with<br />
this deponents owne handwriteing, And that the second schedule annexed and<br />
now perused by this examinate, being a declaration or engagement as aforesaid<br />
for the indemnifying of the said sugars, or preserving the same from<br />
sequestration, was then and there also written and subscribed by this deponent in<br />
the presence of the Wittnesses aforesaid, and that the contents of the said<br />
schedule respectively were and are reall and true and so had and done as<br />
therein is contained. Which the premisses this deponent saith hee knoweth and<br />
deposeth of a certaine trueth, being himselfe the person who acted and transacted the<br />
same as aforesaid. And further hee cannot depose./
To the third hee saith, That the said shipp the ''Nostra Seignora da Rosario''<br />
being in her Course from the Bahia towards Lisbone was in her passage<br />
thitherwards surprized and taken by Captaine Joseph Jourdaine Captaine of the ''Pelican'' in the<br />
immediate service of this Commonwealth, this deponent then being Master and<br />
Commander of and aboard the said shipp the ''Nostra Seignora'', and thereby<br />
well knoweth that the said ten Chests of white sugaar then were and<br />
remained aboard the said shipp, and came to the possession of the said Captaine<br />
Jordan and Companie the seizers thereof, And were according to publique<br />
fame and report brought or sent up by them to the Port of Plymouth<br />
where they were disposed pf by the Collectors for Prize goods or their<br />
deputies to and for the service of this Commonwealth. And further hee<br />
cannot depose:-
To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true:-/
To the Crosse Interrogatories:-/ [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first hee saith. That hee this rendent was Master and Commannder of the<br />
shipp interrate during the Voyage in Controversy, and till the seizure predeposed,<br />
and so had bin and continued from the time shee was first built and sett to<br />
sea from [?Carhen] in the parts of Guiney, And saith hee is a Native of<br />
Lisbone in Portugall borne of English Parents, and hath lived for all the<br />
time interrate sometimes at Lisbone sometimes in Guiney, sometimes in<br />
Brazeele Guiney, sometimes in<br />
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