HCA 13/71 f.391v Annotate
Volume | HCA 13/71 |
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Folio | 391 |
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Colin Greenstreet | |
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2013/01/20 | |
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Edited on 28/05/2014 by Colin Greenstreet |
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knoweth for that hee this deponent for all the foresaid time and longer
lived in the same house in Sevill where they kept and managed
their affaires of Merchandize, and from May 1653 till about
September 1655 (at which time they were constrained to quit those parts
by meanes of the warrs betweene this Commonwealth and Spaine)
hee lived with them and kept their bookes touching their
commerce, and thereby became very well acquainted with all their
transactions in their traffique.
To the second Interrogatorie hee saith that at the time of the difference
breaking forth betweene England and Spaine in the yeere 1655, the
said Gerrald LLoyd and company had severall debts owing unto
them by severall persons residing in Spaine, And alsoe severall
goods, merchandizes and effects at Sevill, Saint Lucars, Cadiz and
other parts of Spaine, and alsoe household stuffe at Sevill, which
said goods, debts merchandizes, household stuff and effects were of the valew
and amounted to the summe of seaven thousand and nine hundred
pounds, which hee knoweth for the reasons aforesaid.
To the third Interrogatorie hee saith hee still keepeth the bookes
of the said Gerrard Lloyd and companie at this citty and thereby
well knoweth that lately in the present yeere 1656 they sent
severall goods and merchandizes from this port of London to Cadiz
in Spaine in the shipp called the ffortune of hamborough, and [?a GUTTER]
shipp called the hare in the ffeild, amounting to one thousand
seaven hundred, ninetie eight pounds tenn shillings, and hee
the better knoweth the same and the particularities thereof for
that (besides his keeping the bookes and accounts as aforesaid) GUTTER
hee filled up the bills of lading signed by the masters of the said
shipps for the said goods and merchandizes; And saith that upon
arrivall of the said shipps at Cadiz, all the said goods and merchan[?dizes GUTTER]
were (as by certaine advise thense by letters hath bin notified) seized
by the officers aof the king of Spaine, And further saith that
all the debts, goods, household stuff and effects predeposed were
alsoe seized by them before this deponents [?men ?coming] thense,
and are all still detained, and the said mr Lloyd and companie
are dispoiled, of all the foresaid goods merchandizes
debts and effects, whereby they have suffered losse and dammage in the
whole to the valew and summe of nine thousand and six hundred
pounds sterling, which hee knoweth for the reasons aforesaid.
francis Thoris [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The same day.
2.
Benjamin Bathurst servant to mr Christofer Boone of
London Marchant, aged nineteene yeares or thereabouts
sworne and examined as aforesaid.
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith and deposeth that hee
well knoweth the interrogated mr Gerrard Lloyd, and hath soe
done