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the said place were according to publique … the said place were according to publique and credible voice and faire reputed to<br />
bee the proper adventure and interest of the allate Gonsalo de Gamboa<br />
dyalo, and were there upon that account discharged and disposed of. And<br />
saith the said shipp or vessell the ''Nostra Seniora de Rosario'' at such her<br />
arrivall was generally taken notice of knowne and reputed amongst Merchants<br />
and mariners in those parts to bee a shipp built originally in the parts<br />
of Guiney, and belonging to the allate Gonsalo de Gamboa dyalo<br />
And saith, That hee this deponent then observing and seeing the discharge of the<br />
said Negroe's, and by his observation of the burthen of the said shipp<br />
beleeveth That about 300 Negroes were there landed out of the said<br />
shipp for the accompt aforesaid And further cannot depose/
To the third and fourth article sof the said Allegation hee saith, That hee this<br />
deponent sawe and observed that in or about the moneths of May or<br />
June in the yeare <u>1650</u> last past hee this deponent then being at Bahia aforesaid<br />
saw and observed that about seaventie foure Chests of white and muscavadoe<br />
sugar marked with the first marke in the margent were then and there
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laden aboard the said shipp ''Nostra Seignora'' for the accompt and upon the<br />
adventure and helping to marke severall of the said chests, as being thereunto<br />
required by John de Carvaillo factor of the said Gonsalo de Gamboa<br />
hee further saith that at or about the time aforesaid hee this deponent<br />
saw and observed that foure Chests of sugars sould by Peter Mar[?XXX]<br />
Contractador Generall for the king of Portugall in those parts to and for the accompt of the said Gonsalo<br />
marked with the second marke in the margent, And that hee then also
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saw five chests of Tobacco laden aboard the said shipp for the accompt<br />
aforesaid, but how marked or numbred hee remembreth not, The premisses<br />
this deponent saith hee tooke especiall notice of being then a Merchant at<br />
the said place of Bahia, and requested by the said Carvaillo to take notice of<br />
the lading of the goods predeposed for the accompt aforesaid. And further<br />
cannot depose./
To the 5th hee saith, hee doth not know nor remember any thing as t the<br />
24. chests of sugar arlate further or otherwise then hee hath predeposed.
To the 6th hee saith That it was and is publique and notorious that the<br />
said shipp and goods on their Course from Bahia for Lisbone were<br />
taken and seized by an Englishman of warr and brought into England<br />
And further hee cannot depose/
To the 7th hee saith, That hee doeth not personally knowe the allate Mathew<br />
and Barbara de Gamboa, but well knoweth the house where the<br />
said Gonsalo was brought up, and where those that are in Lisbone generally<br />
reputed his kindred did and doe inhabitt, and hath seene and taken<br />
notice of some of his kindred, allies ans servants that were in mourning<br />
upon the occasion of the said Gonsalvoes death./
To the lastf the said Gonsalvoes death./
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