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The 30th day of October 1653. [CENTRE HEAD … The 30th day of October 1653. [CENTRE HEADING]
The Clayme of Manuel Gomez Arosta merchant}<br />
of Sevile Assentista of his Majestye of Spayne}<br />
and of Anthony Chavez of the same place for}<br />
their respective goods in the shipp the ''Salvador''}<br />
whereof Christian Cloppenbergh is Captaine}<br />
taken by some of the Parliaments ffleet}<br />
Smith Budd.}
Examined upon the sayd allegation./
'''1)'''
'''Antonio Estevan de Balderas''' of [?XXXX]<br />
an Inhabitant of Limma in the West Indies<br />
merchant aged 38 yeares or thereabouts<br />
a witnes sworne and examined deposeth and<br />
saith as followeth. videlicet.
To the first second and third Articles of the sayd allegation This deponent saith<br />
that he hath knowne the arlate Manuel Gomez de Arosta and Antonio<br />
Chavez .25 yeares respectivley and for all that tyme they have bene and<br />
now are Inhabitants of Sevill and subiects of the King of Spaine and<br />
so accounted, and the sayd Manuel Gomez was and now is an Assentista of his<br />
Majestye of Spaine and so accounted. And further saith that the sayd Manuel<br />
Gomez de Arosta in the monethes of September october and November<br />
was and att present is the lawfull Owner of the arlate 49 sackes of
[FIRST MARKE, LH MARGIN]
washed woolls of the first marke in the margent, and of 24 sackes of
[SECOND MARKE, LH MARGIN]
like wooll of the second marke in the margent, and that about the [?latter]<br />
end of September or beginning of October <u>1652</u> he did cause the [?same]<br />
to be laden for his owne Accompt aboard the arlate shipp the ''Salvador''<br />
Christian Cloppenbergh Master rising then in the bay of Cadiz for his owne<br />
Accompt to be transported to Ostend and there delivered for his use to his<br />
factor there, the premisses he knoweth for that he saw the foresayd [?woolls]<br />
in the possession of the sayd Manuel Gomez in Sevil who acquainted this<br />
deponent that they were his woolls and that his designe as to lade<br />
them att Cadiz upon his owne Accompt for fflanders, and saith he sawe<br />
the sayd woolls embarked at Sevill, and afterwards saw the barkes [?whereinto]<br />
they were putt arrive safely therewith att the sayd shipp in the bay of Cadiz<br />
and hath since the lading thereof seene a bill of lading for the same<br />
under the hand of the sayd Christian Cloppenbergh whose manner of<br />
writing he well knoweth and saith he was told by the sayd [?Anthony]<br />
de Chavez in the sayd moneth of September in Sevill that he the<br />
sayd Anthony had laden aboard the sayd shipp for his owne Accompt<br />
to be transported to Ostend three serons of fine graine or [?Cochineale]<br />
and having since seene a bill of lading for the same doth verily<br />
beleive that the sayd Anthony de Chavez in September 1652 was<br />
and now is the rightfull owner of the arlate three serons of [?Cochineale]
[THIRD MARKE, LH MARGIN]
marked as in the margent, and that he did lade the same for his owne<br />
Accompt aboard the sayd shipp in the moneth of September 1652 [?or]<br />
about that tyme to be carryed to Ostend and there delivered for his [?use]<br />
and Accompt. And otherwise he cannot depose.
To the fourth article of the sayd allegation This deponent saith that hee [?hath]<br />
seene a bill of lading in the Registry of this Court of the same [?tenor]<br />
with the bill of lading to the allegation annexed and now shewne him for the foregoeing<br />
woolls, and likewise one other of the same tenor with the bill of lading<br />
for the sayd Cochineale to the sayd allegation likewise annexed and now [?shewne]<br />
him, and knoweing well the Character of the sayd Christian Cloppenbergh [?his]<br />
firme, and the manner and Custome of firming of bills of lading [?for]<br />
theis reasons and the reasons predeposed he saith he doth verily [?beleive]<br />
[?and] doth verily [?beleive]<br />
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