HCA 13/70 f.470v Annotate

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On the Eleaventh day of September 1655. [CENTRE HEADING]

The claime of Melchior Aranguren}
for his goods laden on board the}
shipp the hare in the ffeild (wherof}
John Kein was and now is Master}
taken by some of the shipps in the}
immediate service of this Commonwealth}
Budd. ffrancklin}

Upon the articulate allegation
given in and admitted on the
behalfe of the sayd Melchior
Aranguren./

1)

Thomas de Guzman Resident of
London, where he hath resided for about
eight yeares last past, Native of
Saint Lucar in Spayne, aged about 28 yeares, a wittnes produced and sworne
and examined deposeth as followeth.

To the first article of the sayd allegation he deposeth and
saith That he this deponent hath knowne and bin well acquainted
with the arlate Melchior Aranguren the producent for
fower yeares last past, for which space of time the said
Melchior hath resided here in England, And that bu the
reasom pf the intimacy and familiarity between him the deposnent
and the producent he doth very well know that the articulate
Bertram de Baud and Mathew de La ffitt have lived
and are the factors, Agents and Correspondents of the
arlate Aranguren the producent, The premisses he
deposeth for that he the deponent hath had communicated unto
him by the producent Letters frequently from time to time
(during the time of their acquaintance, which hath bin for
fower yeares last past) which he the said producent had received
from then the said said de Baud and De la ffitt, and
that he the deponent saw a Letter but yesterday sent from
the said de La ffitt to the producent (which Letter came by this
last Poast) concerning and touching the way of trading
and Merchandizing between them he said producent and
his aforementioned Agents or ffactors at Roane; And
further to the sayd article he cannot depose.

To the second article, he deposeth and saith That by reason of the
freindshipp between the deponent and the producent he the [?respondent]
hath seene Letters written by the producent from Bartholomew
Lopez de Apastris an Inhabitant and Merchant at Sevill
in Spayne that he the sayd Lopez de Apastris had shipt
for his the sayd de Arangurens account seaven hundred
pound weight of redd wooll, and sent them to Roane in ffrance unto
the arlate De Baud and De La ffitt for his account, and
he alsoe deposeth that within the time articukated he the
deponent hath seene Letters written from the said de Baud
and De La ffitt unto the producent, wherby and [were?XX GUTTER]
they