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said Luke Lucy did then alsoe give directi … said Luke Lucy did then alsoe give direction to his said Correspondent,<br />
to make use of the name of the allate Walter Sopps of hamburgh<br />
a Correspondent of the said Luke Lucy for the better securing of the<br />
said Goods from the dutch or ffrench in case they did renconter them.<br />
hee further saith, That in or about the moneth of June <u>1653.</u> last<br />
past the said hugh Salisbury according to the order and direction of the<br />
said Luke Lucy caused the goods aforesaid to be laden in and aboard the<br />
said ship ''Saint Peter'' (whereof the allate Peter De La Salle was Master) then<br />
lyeing at or neere Portsmouth, to be transported in the same for Saint Sebastians<br />
aforesaid, and there to be delivered to the allate Walter Adams the<br />
factor and Correspondent of the said Luke Lucy, and to be sold and disposed<br />
off there for the proper accompt and upon the sole adventure of the said<br />
Luke Lucy. The premises hee well knoweth, for that hee this deponent<br />
for and during all the time predeposed was and still is Cashier to<br />
and of the said producent, and in that quality by the said producents<br />
order paid for all the said goods and charges incident, the full summe of<br />
196 ''li'': 10 ''s'': 6 ''d'': sterling besides 32 ''li'': 2 ''s'': which are charged upon the said Mr Lucys accompt<br />
for the dying pressing packing carriage to Portsmouth and other small<br />
Charges about the said goods to all which the transactions of the said producent this deponent<br />
was and is privy, and familiarly acquainted with the same by the<br />
meanes of his [?trXX] and employment aforesaid. And further to<br />
theise articles hee saith hee cannot depose. saving his subsequent depositions.
To the 4th and schedule annexed nowe seene and perused by this deponent hee<br />
saith, That about the time of the lading of the goods predeposed in manner<br />
aforesaid, the said producent together with a letter of advise to the said<br />
Salisbury his Correspondent sent three bills of ladeing in the same<br />
filled up with the proper hand writing of Mr Jacob Lucy the producents<br />
brother, one whereof being the schedule annexed was shortly after<br />
returned by the said Salisbury in a letter of advise touching the lading of the<br />
said goods, the same being firmed by the said Peter de La Salle as by the<br />
said bill appeareth, which bill of lading for the reasons predeposed<br />
this deponent is in Conscience convinced to be reasll and true saving that the<br />
said name of Walter Sops is therein as aforesaid Colourably made use<br />
of for the preservation of the said goods in Case of meeting with the<br />
ffrench or dutch as aforesaid. And further cannot depose./
To the 5th hee saith, That hee this deponent was not present when the<br />
said goods in their Course to Saint Sebastians were, as is arlate, forcibly<br />
taken away by the said Captaine Paine in the ''Saint Ives Scout'' arlate,<br />
but after the said ship ''Saint Peter'' was arrived at her said intended Port<br />
of Saint Sebastians, this deponent saw and observed by letters sent thence from the<br />
said Walter Adams, that the said goods in their passage from<br />
Portsmouth to Saint Sebastians as aforesaid had been violently taken<br />
away by an Englishman of war, which the said Master and Companie conceived<br />
to belong to some place in the West of England. And saith the saidin the West of England. And saith the said +
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