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of Spaine, and send rich goods thither, and that their ffactors in
Spaine doe usually make them returnes in silver And otherwise hee
cannot depose./

To the third hee saith that the names both of laders and of those for
whose Accompt any silver is laden are well enough knowne to those
concerned therein albeit the names in the bills are feigned or left
with blanckes or otherwise obscured, such fictitious names being
only for prevention f discovery as aforesayd And otherwise saving
his foregoeing deposition hee cannot depose./

To the 4th hee answereth negatively./

To the 5th 6th and 7th hee saith hee verily beleeveth that severall persons
liveing in Antwerpe Gaunte Dunquirke Lile and other parts and places
of fflaunders and Brabant subiects of the Kinge of Spaine, had the
voyage in question severall and great quantities of silver and plate
laden and seized in the shipps the Sampson Salvador and Saint George in
question And otherwise saving as aforesayd hee cannot depose saving
hee hath severall tymes heard Merchants of good worth and quality
saye and affirme that many of the Merchants of Gaunt Lile Antwerpe
dunquirke and other parts of fflaunders and Brabant
subiects of the sayd Kinge had much plate in the sayd shipps.

Repeated before doctors Clerke and Godolphin.

Ant fe Carvahall [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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The 8th day of November 1654/ [CENTRE HEADING]

The Lord Protector against the shipp the}
Saint George John Martindorpe Master and}
the silver and goods in the same}
Bud: Smith ffrancklin Suckley}

Examined upon an allegation given
in by Mr Budd the 20th day of
September 1653/

Stephen Puckle of East Smithfeild neere
London Merchant aged fifty nyne yeares or
thereabouts a witnes sworne and examined
saith and deposeth by virtue of his Oath as followeth videlicet/

To the 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. and thirteenth
articles of the sayd allegation This deponent saith hee cannot depose/

To the 14th Article of the sayd allegation, this deponent saith that for
the space of about twenty yeares next before the late warrs betwixt this
Commonwealth and the United Provinces, hee did live and reside
with his family at Rotterdam in holland and by
that meanes came to be well acquainted with the dutch tongue
and