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21 die mensis ffebruary 1660./.<br /> … 21 die mensis ffebruary 1660./.<br />
Gubernator et Societas Mercatorii Anglorormiad)<br />
Indias Ocidentales commerc?i exeXXon contra)<br />
ffranciscum Dashwood Johannem Sweeting et)<br />
Johannem Connis etcetera Budd: Suckley)<br />
Sup Libello ex parte dictor?ii Gubernatoris et<br />
Scoeitatis Mercator?ii Anglorum ad Indas ocidental<br />
commerc?i exercen da Examinatus../<br />
dt Sor<br />
(jus<br />
Henricus Thuseros de Broadstreete London<br />
Mercator annos agens 35 ant da circiter testis in<br />
har causa Productis et Juratus dicit et deponit prov?t<br />
seqr. videlicet./<br />
Ad j.n dicit that for these tenne yeeres last past there hath bin and<br />
at present is a Company or Society of English Merchants commonly<br />
called or knowne by the name of the Governours and Company<br />
of English Merchants trading to the East Indias, And this Deponent for<br />
all or most part of the said time was Imployed by them as a factor<br />
in the East Indias, And to the rest hee referrs himselfe to the<br />
Charter lilate<br />
Ad 2a. 3a. et 4a. positiones dri Lilli dicit that hee refers himselfe to<br />
the Charter Party therein mentioned:/.<br />
Ad 5u. nescit deponere.<br />
Ad 6u. dicit that hee this deponent being at Maccassar in the East Indies in the<br />
months of Aprill May and June 1659: well knoweth that the Lilate<br />
ship the Marigold (Joha Connis Comander arrived att Maccassar<br />
aforesaid in or neere about the beginning of the said month of<br />
Aprill, and on the same day of such her arrivall there, this deponent<br />
went on board her, and found and sawe that there were many<br />
Passengers on board her to the number of twenty at the least, which<br />
the said Connis tooke in (as this deponent was Credibly in formed)<br />
on the Coast of Cormondell, but upon whose account the same<br />
were brought to Maccassar hee saith hee knoweth not, but the said<br />
Connis hath confessed unto him that two or three of them were<br />
upon his the said Connis his owne Account, And the said Connis,<br />
hee saith alsoe brought to Maccassar in the said ship the said time<br />
about twelve or fourteene bales of Callicoes upon his owne<br />
account (as this deponent verily beleeveth) and some of them hee<br />
saith hee knoweth that the said Connis did dispose of at maccaddar<br />
for his owne account And further to this position hee cannot<br />
depose./<br />
Ad 7. 8 dicit that the said ship from Maccasar sailed back to the<br />
Coast of Cormandell, this deponent goeing thither in her, And saith the said<br />
Connis Carried in the said ship from Maccasser aforesaid to the Coast of Cormandell<br />
about sixty or seaventy Bahares of Brimstone which (as hee confessed to this<br />
deponent) hee bought at Maccassar, and said that hee putt it aboard to<br />
Ballast the said ship And the said Connis of this deponents knowledge carried in the<br />
said ship Chyna Rootes ?Tutenagg and GorXXX namely<br />
as hee likewise confessed and declared to this deponent about fourty or fifty parcells of Chyna Rootes, about fifty or sixty<br />
parcells of Tuteriagge and about five or six Bahare of Tortoise shells<br />
and in the said ships Passgae the said Connis did at Jappara take<br />
(aboardis did at Jappara take<br />
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