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The 26th day of January .1654:- [CENTRE HE … The 26th day of January .1654:- [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined upon a Libell exhibited on the<br />
behalf of the said ffrancisco Lorenzo de<br />
Lara./
'''Arnold de Groot''' of London Merchant aged 26.<br />
yeares or thereabouts a Wittnesse sworne and examined<br />
saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet/
To the said Libell and articles therein conteyned hee saith and deposeth, That in<br />
or about the moneth of May last past, one Thomas Gusman a Spanish<br />
Merchant residing in this City having on the behalfe of the said fffrancisco<br />
Lorenzo de Lara procured a Warrant of this Court for the arresting of<br />
the lillate William Peer, addressed to this deponent and others, the said Thomas<br />
Gusman came to this deponent and desired him by Vertue of the said Warrant to arrest<br />
the said William Peer, which this deponent some daies after accordingly performed<br />
and the said William Peer so arrested, this deponent kept in safe Custodie for two<br />
daies before security was entred into this Court on the said Peers behalfe for and<br />
concerning the action in Controversy, during which time of the said William<br />
Peers detention, hee confessed and acknowledged to this deponent in manner and<br />
forme following, To witt, That hee the said William Peer in the yeare<br />
1647. lillate was Master or Commander of the lillate shipp the ''dragon'', and<br />
that in the said yeare hee was in and with the said shipp in the Roade of<br />
Mallega in Spaine, where hee was ordered and commanded to give in<br />
security that the said shipp shuld not bring in any Contrebanda goods<br />
nor depart out of the said Roade without the speciall permission of the<br />
Officers of the king of Spaine belonging to that Port, and that thereupon the<br />
lillate ffrancisco Lorenzo de Lara had become fidejussor, and had entred<br />
Caution and engaged himselfe to the effect above mentioned, in the summe of<br />
two Thousand duckatts or five hundred pounds sterling as penaltie in Case<br />
the said shipp should depart thence without permission as abovesaid [#}
[#] [LH MARGIN AT 90 DEGREES]<br />
And saith the said William Peer then also acknowledged this deponent, That after hee had done his busines<br />
at Malega in the Voiage aforesaid, ther winde coming faire, hee departed thence with his said shipp in the<br />
night time, notwithstanding the said securitie, nor having any such permission to depart thence as aforesaid/<br />
Arnold de Groote [SIGNATURE, LH MARGIN AT 90 DEGREES]
And otherwise<br />
referring himselfe to the Entries and records lillate and to the Acts of this<br />
Court, and to the Law hee saith hee cannot further depose./
To the Crosse Interrogatories./ [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith and deposeth, That hee cometh to be a Wittnes in<br />
this Cause by the procurement of the said Thomas Gusman, and hath no<br />
share interest or concernment therein, neither doeth hee expect either prejudice<br />
or benefitt by the overthrow or Victorie of the said ffrancisco Lorenzo de Lara<br />
the plaintiffe in the same, And otherwise negatively to every point thereof./:
To the second Interrogatorie hee saith, hee this rendent never saw the interrate William<br />
Peer before the time of the arrest aforesaid, and saith this rendent saw him last<br />
in this City about 2. moneths since, and that hee is, as this rendent beleeveth<br />
of the age of about 40. or 50. yeares, and that hee is of a sanguine complexion<br />
(and of a sanguine complexion<br />
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