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Transcription

sayd voyage to the Barbadoes and there take in a ladeing of Sugars and Tobaccoe
and deliver the same at Bilboa aforesayd hee the sayd Pitt would procure
a licence for the quiet and safe unladeing of the same there at Bilboa and
that the sayd licence should bee ready procured at Bilboa before the sayd
shipp the Guift could and did arrive there in confidence of the performance
of which promise the Master and Company of the sayd shipp did proceede
on the voyage in question and arrived at the Barbadoes and there tooke
in a Cargazone of Sugar and Tobaccoe to be transported to Bilboa for
the accompte and adventure of the sayd Pitt and Marshall And further to this
article, saving his subsequent deposition hee cannot depose/

To the 3 and 4th article of the sayd allegation hee saith that the sayd master
and Company having at the Barbadoes taken aboard the saud shipp the Guift the Cargazone
of sugars and tobaccoes (being the goods in question) for the Accompt and adventure
of the sayd Pitt and Marshall and being ready to depart therewith for Bilboa
in or about the moneth of July 1653 arlate this deponent in the behalfe of
himselfe and the sayd shipps company did speake to the arlate Richard
dennis who laded the same as factor for the sayd Pitt and Marshall and
told him that the sayd goods were contrabanda goods at Bilboa and would
be confiscate when they came there if a licence were not procured for the
safe and quiet unladeing of them there, and that hee this deponent and the shipps company
were unwilling to goe thither with them unlesse such a licence were
procured and that the voyage would be overthrowne if such a license were
not obteyned against her the Guifts arrivall there or to that effect
And the sayd dennis then speaking to this deponent in the presence of the sayd
Master William Mayer and divers of the sayd shipps companye sayd that
they neede not feare to goe therewith for Bilboa for the ffactors of the sayd
Pitt and Marshall at Bilboa were longe since informed that the sayd shipp was
to come thither with a ladeing of sugars and Tobaccoe and that they would procure
a license safely and quietly to unlade the sayd goods there before the
sayd shipp could there arrive therewith or to that effect, whereupon
the sayd Mayer and Company set sayle in or about the moneth of July 1653
from the Barbadoes with the sayd Cargazoone of sugars and tobaccoe, and
arrived safely therewith at Bilboa without makeing any port by the
way And further saving his subsequent deposition hee cannot depose

To the 5th 6th and 7th articles of the sayd allegation hee saith that there happened
very tempestious weather at the same tyme the sayd shipp the Guift
arrived with her sayd Cargo at the Barr of Bilboa in soe much that
the sayd shipp could not without eminent danger of being lost and her
Cargoe and Company on board her of being cast away, rode at Anchor without
the sayd Barr and soe much did evidently appeare to the sayd master and
his