HCA 13/71 f.527r Annotate
| Volume | HCA 13/71 |
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| Folio | 527 |
| Side | Recto |
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| First transcriber | |
| William Tullett | |
| First transcribed | |
| 2012/11/07 | |
| Editorial history | |
| Edited on 22/11/2012 and on 04/08/2014 by Colin Greenstreet | |
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plundered and stripped him of his Cloathes and other things to the
value of twenty pounds and left him almost naked, but whether
the shipp the sayd denew was in belonged to subiects of the united
Provinces hee knoweth not for that the sayd denew did not tell this
deponent soe much neither did this deponent ask him that question./
To the 6th article hee saith hee cannot of his certayne knowledge depose
any thing thereto but hath credibly heard that the shipp the hare in
the ffeild was a dutch shipp belonging to the subiects of the states of
the united provinces and was soe adiudged to bee and restored by order of
this Court, and her ladeing restored to divers of the
owners thereof both dutch and English who Claymed them And hath heard
the sayd shipp sayling afterwards from London to Cadiz with divers
of the goods soe restored in her was at Cadiz within these
twelve monthes last past seized upon by the officers and subjects of the Kinge of Spaine and her goods taken out of
her by them and kept and detayned from the Owners, And hee heard one
harman Goris an English Merchant saye hee had goods in her at
such her seizure at Cadiz which were detayned from him
And further to this article hee cannot depose./
To the 7th article hee saith that hee this deponent having used
the trade of merchandizing for diverse yeares knoweth that in the tyme arlate it hath bin and is
usuall among Merchants to make colourable bills of ladeing
for the better preservation of goods laden by them in any
Country in hostility with the King of Spaine, that in case they should
in their passage bee visited by any men of warr belonging to the
sayd King of Spaine or his subjects, they may thereby appeare as if
they were laden, and for Accompte, of such as are in Amity with
the sayd King, though in reality they doe belong to those that
are in hostility with him And this hee saith is a
thing well knowne and commonly practised among Merchants
in tymes of warr And further cannot depose
To the last hee saith his foregoing deposition is true/
To the Interrogatories./ [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith hee cometh to testifie in this
cause being required by Mr James Burkin and Joas Eversen Mer=
chants of London and correspondents of the sayd Symon and Lewis
Rodrigues da Souza And saith hee hath knowne the sayd Symon and Lewis
by the Correspondence of the sayd Burkin and Eversen (this deponent being the sayd Burkins' servant) for about these two yeares last past and saith they
live at Amsterdam and soe have done during the tyme his sayd Master the sayd Eversen had
Correspondence with them, which is as aforesayd about two yeares,
and how long before that they lived there, or where they lived during the
tyme Interrogate hee knoweth not, and whose subjects they are hee knoweth
not, and saith his this deponents Master the forenamed Mr James Burkin is
their
