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Transcription

The eighteenth day of September 1656.

On the behalfe of Mr Stanier}
and others touching the Saint Phillip}

Smyth dt.

Ezekiel Lampen of London Merchant aged two and
twenty yeares or thereabouts and Robert Demetrius of
the same citie of London Merchant, aged twenty five
yeeres or thereabouts, sworne before the right Worshipfull
John Godolphin doctor of lawes and Charles George
Cock Esquire Judges of the high Court of the Admiraltie
of England say and deposeth by vertue of their oathes.

That the shipp the Saint Philip (called of Amsterdam) of the burthen
of two hundred and fiftie tonnes or thereabouts (whereof is to goe master under
Gad William Josp nowe bound from Amsterdam for Ireland and
to lade fish and thense into the Streights, was about a moneth since
bought at Amsterdam by the order and for the proper account of
Peter Vandeput, James Stanier, Roger hatton, and Ralph Lee
Englishmen and merchants residing in London, and subiects of the
Commonwealth of England, and was and is wholly and really
belonging to them and to noe other person or persons, and that they
bought her for the summe of eight thousand, seaven hundred and
fiftie gilders, for the payment of which moneys, bills of exchange
from Amsterdam have bin drawne upon them and by them accepted,
which they knowe to be true because they being servants to mr James
Stanier aforesaid, and writing in his counting house and keeping
his bookes and cash have seene his letters of dispatch touching his
the order given for his said buying the said shipp, and
the answers thereunto from Amsterdam, and the bills of exchange
aforesaid, and well knowes the said foure merchants to be sole
Proprietors of the said shipp.

Ezechiel Lampen [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
Robert Demetrius [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]

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The 22th of September 1656.

On the behalfe of Gerrard LLoyd and companie}
touching the losses sustained by the king}
of Spaine, and his subiects. Suckley}

1

Francis Thoris of London Merchant
aged 48 yeeres or thereabouts sworne (as
in the acts of Court) and examined upon
certaine Interrogatories ministred on the behalfe
of the said Gerrard Lloyd and companie
saith and deposeth by vertue of his oath.

To the first Interrogatorie hee saith and deposeth that hee well
knoweth the interrogated Gerrard LLoyd and hath soe donne for theise
five yeeres last or thereabouts, and alsoe well knoweth that in the yeares
1653, 1654 and 1655 and for some space before the said Gerrard LLoyd
and companie had a very greate trade at Sevill in Spaine, and there
kept a house and familie, and had at Sevill and otherparts in Spaine
very greate commerce and traffique by way of Merchandize, which hee

Sources

Secondary sources

José Ignacio Martínez Ruiz, Perry Gauci, Mercaderes ingleses en Alicante en el siglo XVII: estudio y edición de la correspondencia comercial de Richard Houncell & Co (Alicante, 2008)