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then in Leadenhall streete neare Creechurch, where hee nowe dwelleth
and hath soe donne about sixteene yeares last, and saith that for all the
said time of such this deponents knowledge of him, hee the said mr
ffernandez hath bin and is a merchant of good account, and hath
from time to time traded to and from the Canaries for wines and
other goods (and to other places) to greate valewes, in soemuch that hee hath (as this deponent
beleeveth and as it is commonly said) paid asmuch custome and
excise (by reason of such his greate dealing) as any
one merchant in the nation for his time of trading, and further
that his cheifest trade is and hath bin in wines comming brought from the
Canaries. The premisses hee deposeth having for all that
said time of his knowledge of him wrought to him the said mr
ffernandez as his wine Cooper, first under this deponents
master, and since namely for twelve yeeres last or thereabouts)
for himselfe. And otherwise hee cannot depose.

Upon the rest hee is not exámined by direction of the producent.

To the Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING]

To the first hee cannot answer ought thereto.

To the second hee answereth that hee is a Protestant by Religion
and maketh much conscience of the oath taken in this cause,
whereby hee holdeth himselfe bound without dispassion to speake
the truth without respect of persons.

To the third hee saith hee knoweth the interrogated Ignatio da Landahola
and Antonio da Ponte having seene them in London, and otherwise
hee cannot answer.

To the 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. and 12th hee cannot answer, not being
in the voyage, nor knowing ought thereof, otherwise than as aforesaid

Repeated before doctor Godolphin.

John Bellamy [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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The seaventeenth of ffebruary 1656. [CENTRE HEADING]

Ash and others against drinkewater}
Suckley. Clements.}

Examined upon an allegation given in
on the behalfe of the said Ash and others.

Rp. .1

Nicholas Gold'sbrough of wapping in the County of
Middlesex Mariner, aged 40 yeares or thereabouts
sworne and exámined.

To the first article of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth
that hee well knoweth that the voyage in question there were
not any herrings laden aboard the shipp the Jonas arlate but
such as were sent downe to the said shipp by mr Nathaniel
drinkewater and mr Samuel Weston arlate or one of them, or their
agents