HCA 13/72 f.392v Annotate
Volume | HCA 13/72 |
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Folio | 392 |
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arlate Rodrigues Robles for these two yeares last past during which
time (and as hee beleeveth for a longer Tyme) the sayd Antonio Rodrigues
Robles hath bin a Merchant and Inhabitant of the Citty of London, and
as hee beleeveth a Subiect of the Commonwealth of England and for such
Commonly reputed amongst Merchants frequenting the Exchange London
and further hee cannot depose./
To the second article of the sayd allegation hee saith hee beleeveth that
for divers yeares last past the sayd Antonio Rodrigues Robles hath
driven a trade from the Island of the Canaries to this port of
London for Canarie wynes and other goods and had and hath his
factors or Agents resident at the Canaries to that purpose
And beleeveth that the sayd Robles hath yearely receaved wines
thence which have bin sent from thence by his factors for his Accompt
as hee beleeveth, but the yearely quantitie hee knoweth not And further
saving his subsequent deposition hee cannot depose./
To the 3 article of the sayd allegation hee saith that since the tyme
of the warr betweene England and Spaine it hath bin an usuall
course among Marchants subiects of the Commonwealth of England
for the better securing the wines and other goods they trade for to the
Canaries and the goods they carrie from London to bee invested in
wines or other goods at the Canaries from the danger of seizure
and confiscation by the King of Spaine as belonging to subiects
of England, to trade thither under fictitioys names and not in
their owne proper names, And verily beleeveth that the sayd
Robles did and doth since the tyme of the sayd warr trade thither
under the fictitious name of Adrian Turin for the securing
his goods as aforesayd and that hee hath receaved wines
thence consigned to him by his factors there by that fictitious
name of Adrian Turin and Invoyces letters and advices
from his factors there by the name of Adrian Turin and that
the sayd Robles hath alsoe sent letters advices and directions from
London to the Canaries under that feigned name of Adrian
Turin And further saving his subsequent deposition hee
cannot depose.
To the 4th 5th 6th and 7th articles of the sayd allegation hee saith
for that hee this deponent was at the Canaries in the yeare
1657 old style, hee beleeveth that the arlate
Symon da herrera Leyva was then (and as hee beleeveth still is) the Agent or Correspondent of
the sayd Antonio Rodrigues Robles there, And saith the sayd
Symon da herrera Leyva did of this deponents knowledge in or about the
moneth of ffebruary 1657 old style and 1658 new style in the port
of Oratava in the Islands of Canaries lade aboard the arlate
shipp the Mary and Joyce whereof the arlate Phillip Stafford
was