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29: Nov: 1653 [CENTRE HEADING]

Repeated before
doctor Clerk and
doctor Godolphin./

The personll [?report]
and severall answers of Peter
Richaut James Richaut Samuell
Richaut and Phillip Richaut
unto a libell [?or] an allehation
given in Court by George
Smith [?partes] and procurator
for his Majestie the king of Spaine
followeth/

To the first position or Article the sayd
Peter Richaut James Richaut Samuell Richaut
and Phillip Richaut answere and every of them
answereth that they doe accept the Contents
of the sayd Article soe farre forth as It
maketh for them, And they and every of them
beleive that those were by the king of
Spaines order and for his owne Accompt in
his owne port of Cadiz laden abord the
Shippes the Sampson Saint Salvador and Saint George
three hundred and three baggs of wooll to bee
transported and delivered in fflanders to his
sayd Majesties owne Officers for his owne use
And that being soe laden the sayd shippes
were by certaine of the Shippes of this Com
monwealth upon lawfull and iust cause
seized and taken upon the open Seas and
brought into this port of London and were
afterwards by decree of the Judges of the high
Court of Admiralty upon lawfull and iust
Cause putt ordered to be unladen and the same
were putt into the custody of John
Sparrowe and others Commissioners
of prize goods, And a Clayme being
put

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