HCA 13/76 f.13r Annotate
| Volume | HCA 13/76 |
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| Folio | 13 |
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4th Octobris 1666 [CENTRE HEADING]
Q: Gaspar Speckhouwer Mercatoris Antwerpiani)
pro navis the Saint Barbara et [?secca Lin])
Super allegatione arlate ex parte [?XXX]
Speckhouwer datt et sched annexis.
Michael de [?Croxyer] civitatis Antwerpia Mercator,
annos agens 68 aut eo circiter testis.
Ad primim arlum et sched in eadem m[?mentionato] deponit that hee hath
for two yeeres last and upwards bin Booke Keeper of and for the
producent Gaspar Speckhouwer, who is (as hee saith) a Merchant
of very eminent qualities, traffiquing to England, ffrance, Spaine, and
into the Streights and other places, and that hee is a native of Antwerp
where this deponent hath knowne him from his infancie, in which infancie
this deponent hath often had him in his armes. And saith that in March
last the said producent wrote and gave order to the arlate Bonnart
and de Panno his factors at Amsterdam (acting in company) to looke out
and buy for him a shipp of about 200 lasts, of the price of about
nine or tenn thousand guilders, intimating his purpose to imploy her
to Rochell to fetch salt, having found that to be a good traffique,
and after the first letter, hee confirmed such his order by others,
with direction to draw upon him for the payment for the said shipp
and chardges, and signifying that hee would provide a Master and
Mariners for her in Brabant or fflanders to fetch her from
Amsterdam to saile her for his accompt, or to the same effect, as is and
by the three letters arlate appeareth, to which hee referreth himsefe, and
which hee saith are true extracts out of the producents bookes of copies
of letters, and that the contents thereof were and are true. Et alr nescit.
Ad 2um arlum et schedulas deponit that the times arlate the
said productent wrote to his said factors to the effect arlate namely
they had hoped they had bought such a shipp according to his order
and afterwards, that hee found that they were agreed of the price as
is arlate, and that they had honoured their draught, and would
make payment accordingly, referring himselfe to the letters arlate
numbred or marked D. E. which hee saith are extracted (like as the former)
out of the producents books of copies of letters by Cornelius Picq a
Notarie of Antwerp, well knowne to this deponent, and whom this
deponent soe busies in the said perusall of the bookes and extracting
Et alr nescit.
Ad 3um arlum et schedulas in eadem [?mentionate] et annex [?XX] [?XXXXXX]
deponit that the said Bonnart and de Panno having brought that
said shipp for the said producent, signified such buying and cost unto
him, and of their purpose to draw and after that they had drawne
the payment and chardges upon him and senthim the accompt
amounting as is arlate, and saith that the schedules marked Number
2. 3. libro B were and are the said Bonnart and da Pann their
said originall letters soe sent to the said producent, the hand of which letters
hee saith is very well knowne to him to be the hand of their letters
which hee knoweth by the frequent liberall correspondance which they
have with the producent in whose Counting House hee writeth.
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Gaspar Speckhouwer
See Commerciële briefwisseling van Henri François Schilders (1660-1691): Ingekomen brieven
Item (or ?Folio) 156: SPECKHOUWER, Gasparo, 1667-1668 Amsterdam (NL) 2 stukken[1]
