HCA 13/71 f.121r Annotate

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safe aboard the sayd shipp The premisses hee
deposeth having lived at Mallega as a factor for these fower or five yeares
last past And further to this arle hee cannot depose/

To the 7th and 9th articles hee cannot depose/

To the 10th hee saith that saving his foregoeing deposition to the 6th article to
which hee referreth hee cannot more fully depose./

To the 11th hee saith hee cannot depose saving hee saith that the usuall price
of good Mallega wines was and is twenty five pounds a butt or thereabouts/

To the 12th hee cannot depose/

To the 13th hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true/

Thomas Smith [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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The same day

Examined on the sayd allegation/

Rp. 4

John Wiggott of London Marchant aged twenty
two yeares or thereabouts a wittnes sworne and examined
saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet./

To the first and second article of the sayd allegation hee saith that hee
this deponent being at Mallega in the yeare 1655 at such tyme as the arlate
shipp the ffreindshipp was in the Roade here, knoweth that divers some other
English ships did ride in the sayd Roade under Command and amongst fflemish
shipps and as neere as usually English shipps used to ride in other yeares
when peace was betwixt England and Spaine, and knoweth that they did lade
wines there by virtue of pratique or licence obteyned of the Governor of
Mallega by their Merchants or freighters, And further to these articles hee
cannot depose saving hee beleeveth the arlate Robert Whitby did procure
pratique or licence for the shipp ffreindshipp for that hee knoweth shee
would not else have bin permitted to take in any ladeing there./

To the 3 article of the sayd allegation gee saith hee knoweth the arlate shipp the
ffreindshipp (the arlate Barnabie holding Master) and was aboard her in the
Roade of Mallega the voyage in question, and thereby knoweth that shee
lay about three or fower myles from shoare to take in her ladeing And
further he cannot depose/

To the 4th and 5th articles hee cannot depose/

To the 6th hee saith hee cannot of his knowledge depose, haveing bin resident
at Mallega but few yeares, but saith in the tyme of his residence there hee
hath heard auntient ffactors who had resided there longe, saye that it
hath bin and is the Custome their that a parcell of wines being delivered at the
Ploy here to a master of a shipp or his Company the sayd Master and Company
and Owners of the sayd shipp are charged with the sayd wines from the tyme
of