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Transcription

The 21th of November 1653./ [CENTRE HEADING]

Examined upon the first allegation/

6

Antonio Fernandez Caravashell of London Merchant aged
54 yeares or thereabouts sworne and examined saith and deposeth
as followeth./

To the first artticle hee saith and deposeth that by the Lawes of Spaine the exportation
of plate from any of the ports of that Country and Kingdome was and is
absolutely forbidden and that noe man may by those lawes lade and
export any without speciall license first had and obteyned and that what
soever parcells shall be found laden without license are lyable to be con=
fiscated, being seized by any of the Kings Officers authorized in that behalfe
which hee knoweth having lived many yeares and having as a Merchant
traded there and thither for these thirty yeares last past And saith thar
while hee soe lived in Spaine hee sawe and tooke notice of many
parcells of silver seized and confiscated for being laden without Registring
and License obteyned but never sawe or knew any put to death for the
same And otherwise hee cannot depose./

To the second and third articles hee saith that in regard of the danger and hazard
of the Lawes of Spaine made against exporting of plate it is usuall and
frequent to put in feigned names and not the true Owners or laders
names into the bill of ladeing for plate laden without Registring to the
end to conceale the laders from discovery, they being if discovered liable
to the punishment ordayned by the sayd lawes to the which lawes
hee referreth him selfe and least any discovery should be made by
the writings sent in the shipp it is usuall to send the true dispatches
(mentioning the true laders) over land to the persons for whome such
plate is laden and many tymes the bill of ladeing (as to the lader) is left
with a blancke And otherwise hee cannot depose./

To the 4th and 5th hee saith that hee beleeveth that there is good store of silver
exported from Spaine for the Accompt of hollanders and Subiects of
the States of the United Netherlands since the peace betweene Spaine and
holland And otherwise hee cannot depose saving his foregoeing deposition
to which hee referreth him selfe./

To the 6th and 7th hee saith hee cannot depose further then as aforesayd

To the Interrogatories [CENTRE HEADING]

To the first hee saith that it is usuall and frequent for Merchant
Strangers of England fflanders and many other countries to lade
silver at Cadiz and Saint Lucars and transport the same to Ports
beyond the Seas and unto other Countries, and that great quantities
of plate are from tyme to tyme and have bin exported from
Spaine without License or Registring for England fflanders and other
Countries which hee knoweth having as aforesayd lived many
yeares