| Transcription
|
space of two yeares or thereabouts at Cadi … space of two yeares or thereabouts at Cadiz, saw the said<br />
producent then severall times there at trading and going<br />
and comming betweene Genoa and that place upon merchandizing
To the 4. 5 and 6 hee cannot answer, for hee was not in the<br />
shipp, or voyage, nor knoweth ought thereof saving as aforesaid.
To the 7 hee saith that the said Rosetti hath declared and said to<br />
this deponent that having advice of at the Canaries, and it<br />
being there commonly said that Generall Blake had staid<br />
severall Genovese shipps and goods, hee<br />
caused his goods (in [XXXXX], to be laden in the name and as for account of<br />
a hollander, for the better preservation thereof. And<br />
otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the last negatively for his part, and otherwise hee cannot<br />
answer, for hee was not then there.
William Martyn [SIGNATURE, LH SIDE]
Bernardo Medici [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
***************************
The same day. [CENTRE HEADING]
Exámined upon the fore said allegation.
'''3.'''
'''Antonio Basso''' Merchant, a native of Genoa<br />
aged 27 yeeres or thereabouts, now living in London,<br />
saith and deposeth as followeth.
To the first article hee saith and deposeth hee well<br />
knoweth the producent Augustin Rosetti, and hath soe donne<br />
for theise six yeeres last or thereabouts, and well knoweth the<br />
mother of the said producent to be inhabiting in Voltra<br />
where the said Augustin was borne, and cometh soe to knowe<br />
the same, for that hee this exáminate is a native of Sestria<br />
da Poncute, which is within a league of Voltra, and hath bin<br />
acquainted with the said producent for the time aforesaid, and<br />
further that the said native places of the said producent<br />
and of this deponent are in the territorie of the State of<br />
Genoa, of which state hee the said producent was and<br />
is a subiect, and for such commonly accounted. And<br />
saith the said Rosetti hath for diverse yeares last bin and<br />
is a merchant of good qualitie and repute, and this deponent<br />
hath bin acquainted and conversed with him in that qualitie<br />
both at Genoa, Cadiz and in the Canaries and seene the<br />
said Augustin trade there as a merchant in severall goodsrade there as a merchant in severall goods +
|
