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Malloes (who formerly had been factor or agent for this rendent) wherein he did inclose a bill of ladeinge invoice and a letter directed unto one Lawrence de Novalls with whom this rendent never was acquainted nor ever had any dealings or comerce withall but onely used his name by the advice of his freinds aforesaid meerely for the preservation of his owne goods. To the second pretensed position he anwereth and beleeveth, that the letter, Invoice and bill of ledeinge were and remained aboard the said shippe the ''diamond'' att such time as she was seized uppon surprized and taken, by the arlate shipps, the ''Merchant Adventure'' and the ''Peter'', and the said letter or invoice was and is written by the proper handwritinge of this respondent, and were inclosed in another letter remaininge in the registry of this Court directed unto the said John Richard an Englishman resident at Saint Maloes which this rendent did by the advice of one Mr hungerford of Exeter mrechant not knowinge, nor ever haveinge had any dealings or correspondence with the said Lawrence de Novalls, but this rendent did write the same meerelye colourably, and to avoid arrests in ffrannce, and for the preservation of his owne hoods, with which he went in the said shippe the ''dyamond'', and was on board the said shippe the ''dyamond'' att the time of the takeinge thereof, and that all the said goods claimed by this rendent in this cause
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