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whatsoever that were torne, throwne overbo … whatsoever that were torne, throwne overboard or any wayes made away, but came<br />
all as hee verily beleeveth to the hands of the said Story and Stoakes being bills<br />
of lading, Charter partia, factories, accounts and other papers and dispatches,<br />
And otherwise saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot answer.
To the seaventh hee saith hee for his part hath not since sold but still holdeth<br />
and owneth his said eighth part of the said shipp, and soe still doe his said<br />
partners as hee beleeveth, without having sold any part to any Spaniard<br />
or fflandrian before or since the beginning of the said voyage, And saith that<br />
having had a Burgundian flagg for five or sixe yeares in another shipp that hee<br />
commanded before hee had the ''Santa Maria'', hee kept it and had it aboard<br />
the ''Santa Maria'', and upon the said approach of the ffrench threw it (being<br />
of the same sort videlicet White with a redd crosse that the fflanders shipps carry)<br />
over board, when the said papers were soe throwne over board as aforesaid.<br />
And othewise then as aforesaid hee cannot answer, saving that shee did not<br />
carry the Spanish flagg or colours.
To the eighth hee saith that none of his company were Spaniards, nor was<br />
there any Spaniard aboard when the said shipp was soe seized.
To the nineth hee saith the said shipp had eight and twenty peeces of ordnance<br />
aboard when shee was soe seized, whereof twenty foure were iron and the<br />
other fower brasse, and that shee is of the burthen of fourehundred tonnes<br />
or thereabouts. And saith that this deponent had money peeces of plate (amounting in all to 252 markes and some odd a[?nn?ries])<br />
for his owne account and had the said peeces of eight in money aboard the said<br />
shipp when shee was seized, namely all such as are contained in a schedule<br />
annexed to an allegation given in this Court in a claime of his owne, to which schedule<br />
hee referreth himselfe, affirming the same to be true, and that the said John<br />
Moller, had in plate severall peeces amounting in all to seaventie markes<br />
three ann[?res] and a halfe an hundred peeces of eight and nine small barrs<br />
of plate aboard for his account, all which money and plate of theirs and other<br />
their goods mentioned in their respective claimes came as hee saith to the hands<br />
and seizure of the said Story and Stoakes, who possessed themselves thereof,<br />
detaining the same from this deponent and the said Moller to this present.<br />
But there were not any Jewells aboard that hee knoweth of.
To the tenth hee saith hee signed the foresaid bills by him deposed of and not<br />
any other for the goods soe laden and seized, nor any of severall tenors for the<br />
same goods, and that hee hath not signed any for any of the goods since the said<br />
seizure was made, and otherwise hee referreth himselfe to his foregoeing deposition.
To the eleaventh hee saith that the ''Santa Maria'' had noe license, nor is it<br />
free for hollanders to trade in the Spanish West Indies without license, in<br />
which regard they were constrained to purchase trade by force of money,<br />
giving the President and officialls of Santa Domingo in moneys and presents<br />
to the value of about fifteene thousand peeces of eight to obtaine trade there,<br />
which upon that regard was permitted unto them, And otherwise saving as aforesaid hee cannot answer.
To the twelveth hee saith hee well knoweth all the owners interrogated, who<br />
hee saith were owners at the time of the said shipps departure from<br />
Amsterdam, and as hee beleeveth are soe still, and otherwise hee referreth<br />
himselfe to his foregoeing deposition.
To the last hee saith hee did not sea the goods interrogated that were<br />
for the claimers carried from Amsterdam in the said shipp bought or any of them paid for,<br />
nor doth hee know that John Mexia da herera bought or paid for any<br />
of them, but beleeveth hee did not pay for any of them, having but<br />
very little money at his command, And further saving his foregoeing<br />
deposition to which hee referreth hee cannot answer.
Towhich hee referreth hee cannot answer.
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