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To the 5th sixth and seventh articles and … To the 5th sixth and seventh articles and to the letter of advice<br />
and Invoice therein mentioned and now showed unto him hee<br />
saith and deposeth that in or about the monethes of July and<br />
August last,<br />
this deponent received advice from the said Producents<br />
factor don lewis Perez da Vittoria that hee had laded at<br />
Santa Crise del GRata?ca (being a port in the Iland of Teneriff<br />
one of the Canarie Ilands) aboard the shipp the ''Saint Laurence'',<br />
(Peter Bennijsent Master) for the account of the said Peter<br />
Maria and Cesar Gentilis six barres of silver, and consigned<br />
the same to be delivered in this port of London to this deponent<br />
for the said account of the said Producents, and afterwards this<br />
deponent received the lettere of advice and Invoice annexed from<br />
him the said factor in the said shipp ''Saint Laurence'' after her seizure, together with the bill of lading articulate<br />
which hee hath nowe alsoe seene, And this deponent hath heard that<br />
the said shipp belonged to the arlate mr fford, And further hee<br />
deposeth not saving that the said lettere, Invoice and bill of<br />
lading exhibited, were and are the same soe by him received
To the eighth hee saith that after the said seizure hee this deponent<br />
was advised by letteres from Plimouth of the seizure of the said<br />
shipp and lading by Captaine Aylot, and of her bringing [XX GUTTER]<br />
thither, whence hee saith shee was brought to this port, for<br />
this deponent here received the said silver in question out of her
To the 9th hee saith hee is well assured and verily beleeveth<br />
that the said six barres of silver were really and truely ?provided<br />
and laded for the proper and sole account of the said producents<br />
and upon their adventure and that they run the sole hazard thereby<br />
and that noe Spaniard or other subiect of the king of Spaine<br />
had at the time of the said lading and seizure any interest there[?in GUTTER]<br />
which hee is induced the more assuredly for that this<br />
deponent hath from time to time by their order made good unto them such silver, as hee hath soe received from them (and soe [XXX GUTTER]<br />
for the silver in question)<br />
and accounted with them for the<br />
silver and ?saith noe other. And further deposeth not.
To the tenth hee saith hee beleeveth there was peace and ami[tie GUTTER]<br />
betweene this Commonwealth and the State of genoa and<br />
their subiects the time arlate, And further deposeth not.
To the rest hee saith his foregoeing deposition was and is true.
To the Interrogatories [CENTRE HEADING]
R?endt.
To the first hee saith hee cometh ordered by the Producents<br />
Proctor to be sworne in this cause, And otherwise negatively
To the second hee saith hee was never at Genoa, nor ever [??saw GUTTER]<br />
the producents that hee knoweth of, nor knowe their fathers or [mothers GUTTER]<br />
And otherwise hee referreth himselfe to his foregoeing deposition.
Tohimselfe to his foregoeing deposition.
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