Challenge 1
TNA, HCA 13/68: December 17th 1653: Examination
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Challenge 1: TNA, HCA 13/68: December 17th 1653: Examination
"To the first and the rest of y:e Articles of the sayd allegaccon This depon:t saith he hath seene and perused a lre from his Catholique Ma:ty the King of Spaine bearing date the .21:th. day of May last past signed by his Ma:ties owne hand and directed to his Ambassado:r here Resident in England wherein after recitalls made that y:e sayd Don Domingo Centurion (who is of the Counsell of his sayd Mat:ty) had laden aboard the sayd shipp the Morning Star or Stella Dorada att Cadiz to be transported to Dunkirke and there delivered for Accompt of his Ma:tyes factories 87 baggs of wooll of Andalucia and 17 baggs of Segovia woolls marked as in the margent (+ C M) and for the supply of his Ma:tyes owne affaires and army in fflanders according to a contract made by the sayd Domingo Centurion in that behalfe; His Ma:ty did and doth require the sayd Lord Amb:er to seeke for restituccon of y:e sayd woolls in the behalfe of the sayd Domingo Centurion of and from this Commonwealth and Parliam:t and Courts of Justice thereof into whose power the sayd woolls heere came by vertue of a seizure made of the sayd shipp by some of the frigats of this Commonwealth. And this deponent..." (I have expanded some, but not all contractions, and normalised capitalisation of personal and ship names). No doubt this transcription could be improved, especially the punctuation."
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