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tonnes (or there abouts) with three peeces … tonnes (or there abouts) with three peeces of ordnance and eighteene men,<br />
severall bales of Roane linnens, thredd and silk laces of Paris,<br />
bombazin, Taffata's of Grenada, box combes and diverse other<br />
Merchandizes, amounting all together with the charges of the said shipp<br />
(which belongs to the said John James fforno) to the summe of fowrscore thousand livers<br />
Tournois, to be carried and transported in the said shipp to Cartagena<br />
in the king of Spaines dominion in the West Indies.<br />
there to be vended and invested in silver and other Indian commodities<br />
for the same account and adventure of the said John James<br />
fforno, Michael Charpentier, and John Reynault, who (as hee saith GUTTER<br />
they write) caused the said Captaine and his Company to be put on<br />
board the said shipp, because the king of Spaine or his officers will not<br />
suffer any other (but Spaniards) to goe to his dominions in the Indies<br />
And that assoone as the said shipp is or shalbe dispatched from the said port<br />
of Cadiz on the said voyage, they expect a perfect Invoice of the said<br />
lading for their account, which (if occasion shall require) they will cause<br />
to be produced to this Court. And lastly that the said shipp in her retourne<br />
from the West Indies is by them intended to be manned at the Canaries<br />
with Hollanders, (if occasion shall soe require) and brought to some<br />
of the ports of England or ffrance,
B di' barbore [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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