HCA 13/72 f.395r Annotate
Volume | HCA 13/72 |
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Folio | 395 |
Side | Recto |
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The 10th day of July 1658
Examined on the sayd allegation/
Rp. 5us
Augustin Colonell of London Merchant aged twenty
three yeares or thereabouts a wittnesse sworne and examined
saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet./
To the first article of the sayd allegation hee saith hee hath knowne the
arlate Antonio Rodrigues Robles for these five yeares last past to bee
a merchant and Inhabitant of the Citty of London and commonly reputed
a Subiect of the Comonwealth of England And by correspondence in the
way of Merchandizing hee hath understood that hee hath bin a Merchant
and Inhabitant thereof for about five yeares next before that and then alsoe
reputed a subiect of the sayd Commonwealth And further hee cannot depose/
To the 2 article of the sayd allegation hee saith that hee hath observed for
these five yeares last past that the sayd Antonio Rodrigues Robles hath
constantly driven a trade from the Island of Canaries to London for
Canarie wines and other merchandizes, and beleeveth to that purpose
hee hath at the Canaries had his factors resident And saith hee hath
observed that the sayd Robles hath yearely during that tyme receaved [?at] this port of London
much wines sometymes three hundred pipes of Canarie wines and some=
tymes more from his factors or Agents in the Canaries which
wines at their delivery heere at this port of London were (as hee
beleeveth receaved as and comonly reputed to be the wynes of the sayd Robles
And further to this article hee cannot depose/
To the 3 article of the sayd allegation hee saith that by severall letters of
Correspondence sent from the factors or Agents of the sayd Robles resident
in the Canaries to the sayd Robles and letters of Correspondence sent
by the sayd Robles to his sayd factors there (which letters hee hath seene)
it doth to this deponent appeare that since the tyme of the warr betwixt
the Commonwealth of England and the King of Spaine the sayd Robles
to avoide the danger of confiscation of his goods hee traded
to the Canaries for (hee being an Inhabitant and Subiect of England and
thereby his goods in danger of confiscation) hath traded to the Canaries
under the fititious name of Adrian Turin by which name hee hath
there hone since the sayd warr, and receaved letters thence from his
factors and sent letters to them againe under that feigned name of
Adrian Turin the better to conceale and secure his trading thither which hee
hath done as this deponent beleeveth for that of his this deponents knowledge
the sayd Robles hath formerly lived in the Canarie Ilands and is
there well knowne by the name of Antonio Rodrigues Robles and is
now knowne there to bee an Inhabitant of London and therefore if
hee should trade thither by the name of Robles his goods hee trades
for would be in great danger of confiscation And further to this
article hee cannot depose./
To the 4th and 5th articles of the sayd allegation hee saith That hee
well