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Transcription

The 21th of November 1653./ [CENTRE HEADING]

Examined upon the foresaid allegation./

6

Antonio Fernandez Carvashall of London Merchant aged
54 yeares or thereabouts sworne and examined saith and deposeth
as followeth./

To the first article hee saith and deposeth that by the lawes of Spaine the
exportation of plate from any of the Ports of that Country and Kingdome was
and is absolutely forbidden and that noe man may by those lawes lade and
exporte any without speciall license first had and obteyned, and that what
soever parcells shall be found laden without licence are liable to be confiscated
being seized by any of the Kings Officers authorized in that behalfe which hee
knoweth having lived many yeares and having as a Merchant traded there and
thither, for these thirty yeares last past And saith that while hee soe lived in Spaine
hee sawe and tooke notice of many parcells of silver seized and confiscated for
being laden without Registring and Licence obteyned but never sawe or knew any
putt to death for the same And otherwise hee cannot depose./

To the second and third articles hee saith that in regard of the danger and hazard of
the Lawes of Spaine made against exporting of Plate it is usuall and
frequent to put in feigned names and not the true Owners or laders names
into the bills of ladaeing for plate laden without Registring to the end to conceale
the Laders from discovery they being as aforesayd (if discovered) lyable
to the punishment ordayned by the sayd lawes, to the which lawes hee
referreth himselfe. And least any discovery should be made by the writings
sent in the shipp it is usuall to send the true dispatches (mentioning the
true laders) over land to the persons for whome such plate is laden,
and many tymes the bill of ladeing (as to the Lader) is left with a blanke
And otherwise hee cannot depose./

To the 4th and 5th hee saith that hee beleeveth that there is good store of
silver exported from Spaine for the Accompt of hollanders and subiects of
the States of the United Netherlands since the Peace betweene Spaine and
holland And otherwise hee cannot depose saving his foregoeing deposition
to which hee referreth himselfe./

To the 6th and 7th hee saith hee cannot depose further then as aforesayd./

To the Interrogatories./ [CENTRE HEADING]

To the first hee saith that it is usuall and frequent for Merchant Strangers
of England, fflanders, and many other countries to lade silver at Cadiz
and Saint Lucars and transport the same thence to Ports beyond the seas and
into other Countries, and that great quantities of plate are from tyme
to tyme and have bin exported from Spaine without Licence or Registring
for England fflanders and other Countries which hee knoweth having
as aforesayd lived many yeares in Spaine and eversince using the
trade of Spaine And otherwise hee cannot depose./

To the second hee saith that hee well knoweth that the Marchants of
Antwerp, Gaunt, Lile, dunquirke, and of other places of fflaunders
and Brabant subiects to the Kinge of Spaine doe drive a great and
Constant trade thense for Cadiz and Saint Lucars and other parts