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and others the Subjects of the said king o … and others the Subjects of the said king of Portugall, and [?XXX]<br />
to be unladed in the said Port of Lisbone, and by the Lad[?ers]<br />
thereof soe designed, and consigned to have bin delivered [?there]<br />
to the Subjects of the said king, whom this deponent conceiving [?XXX]<br />
the receipt thereof to have bin lyable according to knowne and<br />
usuall Custome to pay unto the said Master the fraight due<br />
for the transportation thereof; Which is all that this deponent<br />
can materially say concerning the matters arlate, save only<br />
that he hath credibly heard that some Englishmen and Subjects of<br />
this Commonwealth have in this Court layd their Clayme or<br />
Claymes to some small and inconsiderable part of the said<br />
sygars or of some other part of the said shipps lading, And this<br />
deponent for his certainety therein referreth himselfe to the Acts<br />
and proceedings of the said Court./
To the 7th he saieth, That it is also publique and notorious and<br />
a thing well observed by and knowne unto this deponent and [?XX ?who]<br />
frequenting and using the Navigation and trade aforesaid, [?XXX]<br />
the Subjects of the Lords the Staes if the United Provinces in<br />
the said yeare 1657. and at the time of the lading of the said<br />
sugars and goods on board the said shipp at fernambuco aforesaid<br />
and for some time before and since had not nor have any [?trade]<br />
nor were or are suffered or permitted to have any trade in any<br />
parts of the Brazeele which were and are in the dominion<br />
of the said king of Portugall, or to lade or carry any [?XXXX GXX]<br />
betweene the said king of Portugall and the Lords the States<br />
aforesaid and their respective subjects, And that really [XXX]<br />
of an absolute assurance of trueth this deponent is fully con[?vinced]<br />
That the said Lords the States or their Subjects or any of<br />
them had not nor have any part in any of the said shipps lading<br />
aforesaid, nor that any of the same was originally laden for<br />
the accompt of them or any of them, nor doe they or any of them<br />
(so farr as titles to the same in poynt of propertie as [?the]<br />
Laders thereof, or that any of the same was originally laden<br />
for the accompt of them or any of them And further to this<br />
Article he deposeth not./
To the 8th article hee saieth, That the said shipp ''nostra Seniora''<br />
''de Rosario Saint Gonsalvo'' having received her said lading of<br />
sugars and Brazeele wood as aforesaid did sett sayle from<br />
fernambuco aforesaid with the same in companie of this deponent<br />
([XXX]mpanie of this deponent<br />
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