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there alsoe set downe, (which then were th … there alsoe set downe, (which then were the usuall and ordinary prices of<br />
such commodities) amounting in the whole to 74 ''li'' – 15 ''s'' – 9 3/4 ''d'', which said goods<br />
and materialls hee saith were used, spent and imployed in and about the said<br />
shipp, all which hee knoweth being commander of her as aforesaid and giving<br />
order to the said davison for the deliverie thereof to her use, and being afterwards<br />
made acquainted by his purser and boatswaine with the receipt<br />
thereof aboard, And saith the said goods to the time of such receipt<br />
thereof aboard were the goods of the said david davidson, and that hee is not<br />
yet paid or satisffied for the same or any part thereof, but the said<br />
money remaineth still due unto him for the same. And otherwise<br />
cannot depose.
Repeated before doctor Clarke.
John Steevens [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 12th of december 1654. [CENTRE HEADING]
The claime of doctor ffrancisco Benzi}<br />
aforesaid for seaventeene two and thirtie parts}<br />
of the shipp ''Prince'' [?Tomeson] Click master and}<br />
one third of the ''Grimoni'' alias ''Armes'' of Madenblick}<br />
John Harmanson Lieven master.}
Examined upon the foresaid allegation.
'''[?Chow:] dt.'''
'''4.'''
'''ffrancis Pardini''' of the citie of London<br />
Merchant, aged 33 yeares or thereabouts<br />
sworne and examined.
To the first and second articles of the said allegation hee saith and<br />
deposeth that hee this deponent was at Amsterdam about a<br />
yeere and halfe since and there staid above a moneth going thither from<br />
this citie, and while hee was soe at Amsterdam hee had much<br />
consultation with Signior Lorenzo Muti partner of the arlate Signior<br />
John Baptista Benzi, and from him in discourse this deponent understood<br />
and was told that the said John Baptista Benzi as brother and correspondent<br />
of the producent doctor ffrancisco Benzi, had at Amsterdam freighted<br />
severall parts of the two shipps arlate the ''Prince'' and the ''Grimoni'' for<br />
and on the behalfe of the said doctor Benzi as owner thereof; it being<br />
as hee said a thing accustomed betweene the said two brothers nemely for<br />
the said John Baptista Benzi to freight such parts of shipps as the<br />
said doctor ffrancisco was owner of upon their comming to Amsterdam, and<br />
for the said doctor to doe the like for him at Venice for parts of such<br />
shipps as the said John Baptista Benzi was owner of; and this deponent<br />
understood and was frequently informed at Amsterdam at the time of such his<br />
being there, and it was there commonly said and reported by such Italians<br />
and others as used the Italian trade that the said doctor ffrancisco<br />
Benzi was owner and proprietor of severall parts of the said two shipps,<br />
And otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the third hee saith hee hath had longe acquaintance and corresponence<br />
in the way of merchandizing with the said John Baptista Benzi, and<br />
well knoweth that the said John Baptista Benzi and his brother aforesaid were<br />
and are natives of Como in the territorie of Milan and subiects of the<br />
King of Spaine and for such commonly accompted, and saith that the<br />
saidmpted, and saith that the<br />
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