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Nunez for about 7. or 8. yeares last past And saith the said ferdinando Nunez was not at Cadiz during<br />
the time the said shipp ''Salvadore'' remained there, (so farr as this rendent<br />
knoweth) but saith this rendent received the said three Cerons of Cutchineale<br />
on board his said shipp ''Salvadore'' at or neere Cadiz in Spaine, the said<br />
goods according to the relation of the Barquiers who brought the same from<br />
Sevile to Cadiz, being sent by the said ferdinando Nunez from Sevill to bee<br />
transported therein for the said ffardinandoe Nunez his accompt, and to that purpose<br />
this deponent by himselfe or his Purser signed three bills of lading all of<br />
one tenor one whereof was seized aboard his said shipp, and remaineth<br />
now, as this rendent beleeveth, in the Registrie of this Court, and thereto<br />
this rendent saith hee referreth himselfe, and remembreth not particularly<br />
at present, (it being about three yeares since) by whom the said Cerons were<br />
laden otherwise then as aforesaid, And further cannot depose, saving that<br />
the said ferdinando Nunez was and is generally accompted a Portugueze<br />
borne, and hath lived and been a Merchant of great quality in Sevill ever<br />
since this rendents first knew him.
To the last hee saith hee doeth not knowe, neither is hee concicted in<br />
Conscience to beleeve otherwise then that the said three Cerons of<br />
Cutchineale doe really and truely belong to the said ferdinando Nunez<br />
and to no other person or persons whatsoever that were or are Subject<br />
or Subjects of the States or king interrate:-
Repeated before doctor Clerke:-/
Christian Cloppenbo[?XX] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
[END OF SINGLE LARGE CROSS]
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The 29th of June <u>.1655.:</u> [CENTRE HEADING]
The Lord Protector against the shipp the ''hope'' of}<br />
Amsterdam, whereof John Cornelison Prince}<br />
was Master Budd}
Examined upon Certaine Interrogatories<br />
ministred in the behalfe of his highnesse<br />
the Lord Protector:-
'''Holden Dt.'''
'''John Cornelisen Prince''' of der Schellingen in<br />
holland mariner Master of the said shipp the ''hope''<br />
aged 58. yeares or thereabouts sworne and examined<br />
saith as followeth videlicet/
To the first hee saith, That hee this rendent hath been Master of the<br />
shipp the ''hope'' interrate since November last past, and first became<br />
Master of her at Medenblick in holland, and saith this deponent was<br />
constituted Master of her by Jaspar Albrechtsen Vooch[?t], herman<br />
hendricksen, and Gerritt de [?Minibes] all Merchants and Burghers<br />
of Amsterdam, and the true and lawfull Owners of the said shipp and of<br />
her tackle apparrell and furniture, which as hee hath understood, the said<br />
Owners bought from other precedent Ownerss whom hee knoweth not, and saith<br />
hee saw noe money payd for the said shipp, And saith the said shipp is a very<br />
ould shipp and that it is notorious that shee hath alwaies belonged to the Port of<br />
Amsterdam, but what former voyages see hath made hee saith hee knoweth not<br />
And as to the authority of the Owners aforesaid, who did constitute this<br />
rendent Master thereof, hee saith hee cannot otherwise answer then that the<br />
said Owners were and are generally and commonly knowne at Amsterdam<br />
(to benly knowne at Amsterdam<br />
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