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him (as if residing in Middleborow) the be … him (as if residing in Middleborow) the better to secure himselfe<br />
(not daring to correspond with an Englishman as an Englishman) and to<br />
preserve the goods from confiscation in case of being met with by the<br />
Spaniards.
To the third 4th and 5th articles hee saith and deposeth that in or about the moneth<br />
of October last the said Robert Bretton of this deponents sight and<br />
knowledge bought in this citie of fiftie peaces of Colchester bayes<br />
and then going into the countrey hee the said producent ordered this<br />
deponent on his behalfe after they were died into black and<br />
colours to lade them for the Canaries and soe sent them to the said<br />
don lewes Perez da Victoria for his the said producents account, which this deponent did accordingly<br />
and laded twenty five peeces of them in the shipp the ''Hope'' (Captaine<br />
van [?Calster]) and the other twenty five in the ''John Ba[?ptist]''. Cord<br />
h[?illderman] master, both which shipps departed from this port with<br />
them, and other goods of this deponents, of consideration<br />
and afterwards this deponent received advice from the said don<br />
Louis Perez da Victoria of the receipt of the said bayes for the<br />
said mr Bretons account in the name aforesaid, which advice<br />
for the reasons aforesaid was directed to this deponent under the<br />
name of William and John Vander Vort under which<br />
names hee was to receive the retournes of the said bayes in wines<br />
and to deliver them to david Constantin, namely to the said producent<br />
Robert Bretton, who under the said name of david<br />
Constantine wrote to the said don lewes to sell and dispose<br />
of the said bayes and invest the same in wines and consigne the<br />
same for london, which letter this deponent sent under his [?covert]<br />
and [?inclosed] in his letter signed by him under the name of william and<br />
John Vander Vort, And further hee deposeth not, saving this<br />
deponent is an Englishman and a subiect of this Commonwealth<br />
and soe is the said producent, and this deponent doth and hath<br />
for some space driven a trade from this port to and from the<br />
Canaries under the said assumed name of William and John<br />
Vandervort, which hee hath donne and doth by the permission<br />
of two merchants of those names living in Amsterdam, and<br />
hath soe donne for the securitie of his owne goods from<br />
seizure by the Spaniards, and hath and doth corresponde with the<br />
said don lewes under those names, and hee referreth himselfe to<br />
the bill of lading annexed.
To the 6. 7 and 8th articles and bill of lading annexed now showed<br />
unto him hee saith and deposeth that in the said letter of advice sent by<br />
this deponent as aforesaid received from the said don lewes there<br />
came the said bill of lading inclosed with order to this deponent<br />
under the name aforesaid to deliver it to him the said david<br />
Constantine, meaning the said producent for this the said producents account under that name withall that<br />
the five pipes of wine therein mentioned under the marke in<br />
the margent thereof were laded aboard the shipp the ''Mary''<br />
''and Joice'' at the said Canaries for his account by the said don lewes, and that<br />
they said don lewes, and that<br />
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