HCA 13/72 f.365v Annotate

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Autunes Viau for those fower or five yeares last past but hath knowne him for a farr longer tyme and saith [?they GUTTER]
are both generall reputed to bee subiects of the King of Portugall
and borne in Viana in Portugall And knoweth that in the moneths
of November and december 1656 and for some yeares next[?before]
that videlicet for thise tenn yeares last and longer they have both lived
in Lisbone and doe still dwell there and have bin and are subiects of
the King of Portugall and soe accompted And further to this article hee
cannot depose./

To the 5th article of the sayd alleagtion hee saith that hee well knoweth
being Master as aforesayd that the sayd shipp ffortune having receaved
aboard sugars and goods at Bahia there laden by subiects of the King
of Portugall sett sayle therewith thence bound for Lisbone and in
her Course thitherwards was mett with upon the high and open seas by
certayne shipps who as their Captaines and Companyes gave
out and pretended were dutchmen subiects of the States of the
United Provinces, who seized the sayd shipp and all her ladeing
and brought her and ladeing in to Plymouth, but carried this deponent
and some others of the ffortunes Company Prizoners in thei
dutch vessells to Amsterdam in holland, where hee this deponent
by letter of advice was given to understand that by reason the
propriety of the sayd shipp remayned in the sayd
Gonsalvo Britto and Autunes Vian and the propriety of the ladeing
seized still remayned in subiects of the King of Portugall (as
this deponent is well assured they truely and really did) the same
were arrested at Plymouth aforesayd by a warrant of this
Court And further hee cannot depose

To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true/

Cypriano Pachao [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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The same day [CENTRE HEADING]

Examined on the sayd alleagtion

Rp. 2

Nicholas Symonds of Lisbone Mariner aged
sixty yeares or thereabouts a wittnesse sworne
and examined saith and deposeth as followeth

To the first and second articles of the sayd allegation hee saith that hee
this deponent in the yeares 1656 and 1657 was and still is an Inhabitant
of Lisbon and a Master of a shipp and well know the arlate John Gonsalvo
Britto and Manuel Autunes Vian who then and divers yeares before
were then and before and still are and ought to bee the lawfull and
true Owners and Proprietors of the arlate shipp the Fortune and
of her tackle Apparrell and furniture and for such commonly
accompted And alsoe knoweth that the sayd Gonsalvo Britto and
Autunes