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Transcription

The 21th of November 1653. [CENTRE HEADING]

Examined upon the foresaid allegation.

2.

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

To the first article hee ssaith and deposeth that by the lawes of Spaine
the exportation of plate from any of the ports of that countrey and kingdome
was and is absolutely forbidden, and that noe man may by those lawes lade
and export any without speciall license first had and obtained, and that
whatsoever parcells shall be found laden without license, 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
marchant traded there and thither for theise thirtie yeares last past
And saith that while hee soe lived in Spaine hee sawe and tooke niotice
of many parcells of silver seized and confiscated for being laden without
Registring and license obtained, but never sawe or knew any put 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 lading for plate laden without Registring
to the end to conceale the laders from discovery, they being as aforesaid
if discovered liable to the punishment ordained by the said 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 whom
such plate is laden, and many times the bill of lading (as to the lader)
is left with a blanck, And otherwise hee cannot depose.

To the fourth and 5th hee saith that hee beleeveth that there is good store of silver
exzported 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 foregoing deposition to which ee
referreth himselfe.

To the 6th and 7th hee saith hee cannot depose further than as aforesaid.

To the Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING]

To the first hee saith that it is usuall and frequent for marchant
strangers of England, fflaunders 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 hreate
quantities of plate are from time to time and have bin exported
from Spaine without license or Registring for England, fflaunders and
other countries, which hee knoweth having as aforesaid lived
many yeares in Spaine and ever since using the trade of Spaine,
And otherwise hee cannot depose.

To the second hee saith that hee well knoweth that the merchants of
Antwerp, Gannt, Lile, dunquirke and of other places of fflaunders
and Brabant subiects to the king of Spaine doe drive a greate and
a constant trade thence for Cadiz and Saint Lucars and other parts
of Spaine, and send rich goods thether, and that their factors in
Spaine doe usually make them retournes in silver. And otherwise
hee cannot depose.

To the third hee saith that the names both of laders and of those for whose
accompt any silver is laden are well enough knowne to those concerned
therein