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To the fowrth fifth 6 and 7th hee saith an … To the fowrth fifth 6 and 7th hee saith and deposeth that the said Betts as aforesayd<br />
was constituted master of the said shipp, John lopez principall Sopra cargo and<br />
this deponent his assistant, by the said Imployers, to carry the said goods to<br />
the Spanish West Indi[?a]s and there truck and barter them away for goods<br />
of that country to be brought for this coast, on which said voyage hee saith they<br />
departed in or about September 1657 in the said shipp with the said goods from<br />
Amsterdam, and went to Trinidad, Comana, Truxillo and honduras<br />
and having at Comana vended a small quantitie of goods, to raise<br />
moneys for the shipps occasions, they at honduras sold and bartered away the<br />
rest being the maine cargo, and therewith produced in truck, bought and<br />
provided for the said porducents their account severall goods and [?wares GUTTER]<br />
of those places, namely two hundred and eightie chests of Indigo; two<br />
and twenty chests, two small barrells and two small potacoes of druggs<br />
foure hundred seaventie six hides and one thousand ninetie foure arobes<br />
of Sassaperilla, and laded the said goods soe produced aboard the said<br />
ship for the said Imployers (the producents) their account, in<br />
which matter the said John Lopez being a Spaniard and soe the more free<br />
there to trade, did especially appeare and act, but all upon the sole account<br />
of the said producents, for whom the said goods were truely and really<br />
bought and provided, and were really the retourne and produced[XXX GUTTER]<br />
of theeir said outwards cargo, and were laded to be brought un th[?at GUTTER]<br />
said shipp for dover or the downes whense the marchants aforesaid<br />
of this cittie were to be advised of their arivall, to the end to order<br />
her discharge, and saith shee departed from the West Indies to<br />
come to the said places or one of them accordingly with the said<br />
goods, but by by (sic) adverse wind and weather was put into Milford<br />
haven, where shee arived safely with the said goods. All<br />
which hee knoweth going from place to place in her, and seeing the<br />
premisses soe donne, and being assistant to the said lopez in that<br />
affaire.
To the eighth nineth and tenth articles hee saith and deposeth that after<br />
such arivall of the said shipp at Milford haven, the said John lopez<br />
hasted thense by land for London to advise his said principalls thereof<br />
and when the said shipp had bin about fifteene dayes there,<br />
namely at Milford haven, this deponent alsoe came thense to see his<br />
wife and familie in London, and left all the said goods aboard the said shipp<br />
without [?diminution] And further cannot depose.
To the eleaventh hee saith the said goods soe provided in the West Ind[?ias GUTTER]<br />
(before particularized) were the oroceede of the said outward cargo of<br />
the said Imployers, and really and truely provided for them, without<br />
any Spaniards or enemies of this Commonwealth having any interest thereof<br />
which hee knoweth for the reasons aforesaid.
To the 12 hee saith the said Gowan Painter, John Page and Andrew<br />
dunkin are English men and subiects of this Commonwealth. and [?they GUTTER]<br />
and the said Anthony ffernadez and Antonio Robles were and are<br />
Inhabitants and merchants of this cittie, where this deponent hath [?bin GUTTER]<br />
at all their houses (saving mr Painter being myr Pages father in lawe<br />
and liveth with him) and knoweth that mr Robles hath a wife and familie<br />
in this citie; and this deponent hath knowne him five or six yeeres [XXX GUTTER]<br />
mr ffernandez about tenn yeares, and the others a shorter space.
To the 13th hee saith the said John Tilley is a native of Slega in Ireland<br />
where this deponent (being alsoe an Irishman) knoweth his friends, and<br />
that hee is a subiect of this Commonwealth, and for such commonly<br />
accounted and lives in holland only as a merchant Stranger.
Ton holland only as a merchant Stranger.
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