HCA 13/68 f.460v Annotate
| Volume | HCA 13/68 |
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| Folio | 460 |
| Side | Verso |
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| Colin Greenstreet | |
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| 2018/01/29 | |
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Dutch miles from Hamburgh, and hath by common report lived in Hamburgh
for about 20. yeares before this deponent came to serve him./
To the 4.th hee saith hee was last at Hamburgh at Whitsuntide last, And [?about]
that time went from thence to Roane in ffrance for the occasion of buying the
goods now Claimed by his Masters order, and saith hee was never in ffrance
before this time, and sailed thither in the shipp the Saint George of Hamburgh
George Schoonmaker Master./
To the 5th hee saith, That hee this rendent bought all and singular the goods
predeposed of severall Merchants at Paris and Roane, and immediately upon
the buying thereof paid for the same with ready money, Which this rendent receaved
of Charles Morin a ffactor who, in regard this deponent understood not the ffrench
tongue, was employed to receive the said moneys at Paris upon bills of exchange sent from
Hamburgh by one Labiestraet a Burgher and inhabitant there bu the direction of
the producent, and saith hee this deponent received also of the said ffactor 1200
crownes which the producent had formerly remaining in the hands of his said ffactor
and this deponent saith hee also carried with him from Hamburgh to ffrance about
10. or 11 lb of Paternoster beades, some pruning hookes, and certaine boxes of
course silver which hee there also sold and disposed of for the said producents
accompt, and employed the proceed thereof towards payment of the goods in question
and saith the said bills of exchange were paid about the moneth of July last
past And otherwise saving his
deposition to the first article of this allegation to which hee referreth) hee cannot further depose./:-
To the 6: hee saith, That hee this rendent packed up all the goods in question by
him predeposed in his lodgeing at Paris and at the Custome howse [?XXX] and Roane, and
caused the marke to be sett upon them by those that helped him to packe
the same, and saith the same is the usuall marke of the said producent of
this deponents certaine knowledge by ten yeares experience n which time this deponent
hath seene severall goods of the same marke received at and transported from
Hamburgh for teh said producents accompt at severall times, the particular time
ths deponent remembreth not/
To the 7.th hee saith, That upon the buying of the goods predeposed of severall
Merchants hee caused presently ffactories or accompts to be made respectively,
by the severall Merchants for the severall quantities hee bought of them in or about
the moneths of July and August last past, and sent the same over land by the
Poast to his said Master at Hamburgh where they are now as he beleeveth
and saith this deponent made an extract out of the said factories, and entred
a greate part of the said goods into a booke, which booke this deponent put into the
Case predeposed numbred 8, and saith hee remembreth not what the said goods
cost or of what Colour they were otherwise then as is predeposed. And otherwise
negatively./
To the 8.th hee saith the interrate Claus Lüys hath oftentimes caused
goods wares and Merchandizes to be bought both in Holland and ffrance
for his owne accompt, but beleeveth not any Correspondence or partnership [?XXXX
with any Dutch or ffrench subjects of the king of ffarnce or States
(Generall
