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Transcription

The 5th day of November 1653:/ [CENTRE HEADING]

The Clayme of Peter Tam for his sylver}
in the Salvadore}

Examined upon the said Allegation/

3us./

Gaspar Tam of Hamborough Purser of the
shipp the Goulden Sunn of Hamburgh aged 24.
yeares or thereabouts sworne and examined saith and
deposeth as followeth are:/

To the first second and third articles of the said Allegation hee saith and deposeth
That the allegate Peter Tam of Hamborough hath for the time arlate and
for about 9 yeares before driven a Constant trade to Saint Lucar and Cadiz
in Spaine for plate and sylver to be for his Accompt transported there to
Dunquirke Ostend and Hamborough, and for the time predeposed the said
Peter Tam the producent had and hath his Agents and Corrrespondents resident
at Saint Lucar and Cadiz aforesaid; Hee further saith, That in the monethes
of August and September in the yeare 1652. last past the said producent
was and now is ought to bee the Lawfull Owner and Proprieter of one
bagg marked with the marke in the margeut, and of fower hundred fiftie

TAM [MERCHANTS MARKE, LH MARGIN]

six peeces of eight in the same, and for Owner thereof the said Peter Tam
for all the said time was and is reputed and taken; Which hee knoweth for
that hee this deponent in or about the moneths predeposed Caused the said
bagg so marked with all the pieces of eight predeposed to be laden in and
aboard the shipp the Salvadore (Christian Cloppenburgh Master) then lyeing at
or neare Cadiz to be transported in the said shipp to Ostend in fflanders and
there to be delivered, and from thence remitted to the said Peter Tam his wife at
Hamborough, for the accompt of the said producent. And otherwise saving his
following Deposition hee saith hee cannot Depose; saving that this Deposition: being
Cozen of and to the said producent, and having sailed with him for about ten
yeares last past, is thereby well acquainted with his negotiation and trade:

To the 4th article and the bill of lading therein exhibited in the Registry of the
Court and now showne to this Examinate at the time of his examination
hee saith and deposeth, That immediately upon the lading of the said bagg
and pieces of eight on board the said shipp, the Salvadore by this deponents order,
the Purser of the said Christian Cloppenburgh on board the said shipp. the said
Master then being on shoare at Cadiz signed three bills of lading of one tenor in
the name of the said Christian Cloppenburgh, which said three bills of lading this
Deponent had filled up with his owne handwriting, and seat them aboard expressely
to be signed for the said silver, one whereof remained on board the said shipp
and was, as hee beleiveth, found on board at the time of the said shipps seizure,
and was and is the very bill of lading now showne to this deponent: and the other
two bills of lading this Deponent received from the Barguier that had carried
the said sylver on board the said shipp, and of which two bills of lading
this Deponent sent over land to Hamborough to the said Peter Tamm his wife
and the