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thousand Royalls Vallon (being about one h … thousand Royalls Vallon (being about one hundred twenty eight pounds sterling<br />
to stand to the Judgment of the Court of Madrid whither the sayd lockerams<br />
should be confiscate as Contrabanda goods, by which meanes this deponent<br />
gott liberty to dispose of and sell the sayd Lockerams, (the [?produce GUTTER]<br />
whereof is part of the foresayd 15 thousand twenty five and a halfe Ryalls<br />
plate which this deponent as aforesayd accounted for to the sayd Cowse) but<br />
this deponent was forced to leave in the hands of Michaell Perez that was<br />
his suretie, effects to the value of the sayd bond entered into, for his the<br />
sayd Peryes securitie, which by reason of warrs betwixt England and<br />
Spaine are now like to bee lost and the sayd Cowse lyable to make<br />
satisfaction to this deponent for the same, but by whose meanes the<br />
sayd lockerams came to bee [?discondred] hee knoweth not And further<br />
hee cannot depose./
To the 3 article hee saith that hee knoweth that it is usuall for<br />
Merchants that trade to Spaine to carry ffrench linnens thither without license<br />
and to land and sell them there, but with great hazard if any<br />
ffrench linnens bee found amongst other free goods and they are usually<br />
confiscate at being a prohibited commoditie unlesse<br />
brought or sent by such persons as have licence to that purpose And<br />
further hee cannot depose/
To the 4th article hee saith hee well knoweth that the lockerams<br />
arlate were privately packed up in fower fatts of flaxe And further<br />
to this article hee cannot depose./
To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true/
To the Interrogatories./ [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith hee cometh to testifie at the request of<br />
the producent Cowse to whome hee is neither Kinne nor indebted<br />
nor a servant, but was only a factor for him touching the<br />
Cargo in question, and that hee hath noe share or interest in this cause<br />
but favoureth all parties therein alike and desyreth right may prevaile<br />
therein and hath receaved nothing nor expecteth any thing for his testimony and saith it will bee neither profitt nor preiudice to him which<br />
soe ever of the parties litigant prevaile therein./
To the 2 Interrogatorie hee saith hee knew the shipp the ''John''<br />
''and Elizabeth'' Interrogate and sawe her and the voyage in question<br />
and was aboard of her at Saint Lucar, but was none of her company
To the 3: and 4th Interrogatorie hee saith that hee being at Saint Lucar when<br />
the shipp ''John and Elizabeth'' came in thither sawe that at her comming<br />
in she wanted a mast and was otherwise much damnified and<br />
torne which was as hee beleeveth and hath heard by two of her company<br />
(which was all as hee remembreth except the master which came in her to Saint Lucar) occasioned<br />
by stormy weather, and by an other ship comming fowle of her at Sea<br />
and thereby much damnifying her, and this deponent beleeveth that att<br />
her comming to Saint Lucar shee was soe damnified that shee was not<br />
in this deponents Judgement fitt to goe to sea without being repayred,<br />
and hee knoweth that such of her goods being as were there put on shoare were<br />
part ofere put on shoare were<br />
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