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Transcription

hath heard what Countrie man hee is hee cannot depose/

To the 2 3 and 4th articles of the sayd allegation hee saith that after the sayd departure of the
sayd Mr Ceely from Saint Lucar (from whence hee went as feareing and having heard a rumour hat a
warr would breake forth betwixt England and Spaine to the preiudice and hinderance of
trade) hee this deponent did at Saint Lucar about the end of July last receive a letter from the sayd Prigg
directed from Saint Malloes to the sayd Ceely at Saint Lucar, and therein an Invoice
and bill of ladeing incloased, by which bill of ladeing Invoice and letter it did
to this deponent appeare that the sayd Prigg had laden aboard the shipp the
Crosse of Jerusalem five ballotts of linnen marked and numbred
as in the margent and in the sayd Invoice was expressed that the same was laded

[LH MARGIN]
GL
No. 1: 1: 1 MEE
No: 2: 2 C

aboard the sayd shipp the nunteenth of June last and alsoe hee saith it was in the sayd letter and Invoice that the same was laden
three 4th thereof for the Accompt of the sayd Ceely, and the other fowerth for
the Accompt of the sayd Prigg, which bill of ladeing and Invoice, (for
that hee this deponent alsoe heard the like rumour of a warr ready to brake
forth betwixt Spaine and England and was then ready to depart from Saint
Lucar for England) hee left at Cadiz with one Mr Alexander Southerland a Scott a factor
there and desyred him to take care and dispose of the sayd goods at their comming And further hee saith hee beleeveth that it is frequent for Merchants in tyme of
warr to make use of colourable names in their bills of ladeing for the better
securing their Merchandizes in enymeies Countries in tyme of warr, and
saith that in the sayd bill of ladeing which this deponent receaved there was
a Colourable bamed used of one William Leterm, And further to these articles
hee cannot depose./

To the 5th and 6th articles saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot further depose/

To the 7th hee saith that hee this deponent having diligently perused the bill of ladeing
and Invoice arlate, verily beleeveth and is perswaded in his conscience that the
bill of ladeing arlate is one of the three originall bills of ladeing signed by
the Master of the Crosse of Jerusalem for the five balletts of Canvas or linnen predeposed
of, and that the Invoice arlate is a true Coppy of the originall Invoice for the sayd
five ballotts of linnen or Canvas sent by the arlate Prigg to the arlate George
Ceely with or in his letter of advice which hee this deponent receaved as aforesayd
And further 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 is a Scotch man by byrth and hath lived at Cales
and Civill in Spaine during all the tye Interrogate And to the rest of the
Interrogatorie hee answereth negatively./

To the 2 Interrogatorie hee saith hee hath satisfied the contracts thereof as touching the sayd
Ceely before, soe farr as hee can, saving hee saith the sayd Ceely till about two moneths
last past, was a batchelour and ffactor there during the tyme Interrogated And saith hee knoweth not the Interrogate Prigg
nor had any correspondence with him saving as predeposed And further hee cannot
answere/

To the third saving his foregoeing deposition to which hee referreth hee cannot more fully
answere to this Interrogatorie./