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And otherwise to this Article he cannot de … And otherwise to this Article he cannot depose, not<br />
knowing the said Roderigo and Gilberto Melz and Lorenzo<br />
Ducler or either of them./
To the 4th Article and the three bills of<br />
lading therein mentioned and now shewed unto him, he<br />
sayth and deposeth that the said bills of lading were and<br />
are the originall and true bills of lading made for<br />
the receipt and delivery of the foresaid goods, and were<br />
upon or about the day of the date in them mentioned<br />
truely and really signed by this deponent at Rochell<br />
before his said ship's departure from those parts. And<br />
sayth he signed two other bills of the same tenor, and<br />
agreeing verbatim with each of the said three bills;<br />
which he left with the said Laders, and also one<br />
other bill for all the said goods, as consigned to<br />
Mr. Andre at Lisbone in Portugall, which last mentioned<br />
was so made and signed for a colour only, and to prevent<br />
the seizure of the said ship and goods, in case she could<br />
meet with any Portugall men of warre in the<br />
course of her said voyage; and therein he sayth<br />
the names of the foresaid two ffrench merchants<br />
were only used as consigners, because they were<br />
ffrench, and thereby in amity with the Portugueses;<br />
but the names of the said two Dutch merchants were<br />
left out, because there were was and is warre betwixt<br />
Portugall and Holland; And saving as aforesaid<br />
he sayth there were no bills or bill of lading whatsoever<br />
signed for the foresaid goods./ And further de=<br />
poseth not./
To the 5th Article he sayth and deposeth that on or<br />
or about the six and twentieth of ffebruary last past<br />
(new stile) the said ship the ''King David'' with the fore=<br />
said goods on board her set sayle from Saint Martins<br />
neare Rochell on her said voyage in Company of<br />
the ''Nonesuch frigot'', commanded by Captain Zacharias<br />
Smith, and that being gone about seaven leagues<br />
out to sea, the said Smyth commanded this Deponent to<br />
come aboard him, sending his shallop to fetch him; and<br />
this deponent going aboard with eight of his company, the said<br />
Smyth kept them aboard his said frigot, and carried them<br />
togeather with the said ship ''King David'' and the foresaid goods<br />
in her, for Portsmouth, and sayth that in the way thither<br />
the Company of the said frigot, plundered and pillaged the<br />
King David, and tooke away a great quantitie of her said<br />
goods.t quantitie of her said<br />
goods. +
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