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Transcription

To the last hee saith hee hath seene the sayd Lazero his wife and
Children at hoya in Persia where as hee beleeveth they still
reside and hath done all their life tyme and there pay Scott and
Lott to the King of Persia as his subiects in behalfe
of the sayd Lazaro And saith hee never sawe the sayd Lazaro in
any of the King of Spaines dominions nor heard that ever hee
paid any taxes to the King of Spaine or his officers as a subiect
of the sayd King of Spaine And further hee cannot answere./

the marke of the sayd
Joseph [HIS MARKE] Armenian/ [MARKE, RH SIDE]

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The same day. [CENTRE HEADING]

Examined on the sayd allegation

2

John Abassa borne in the Country of
Abassa in Asia minor but now living in
London aged twenty three yeares or thereabouts
awittnesse sworne and examined saith and
deposeth as followeth videlicet./

To the first second and third articles of the sayd allegation he
saith that hee this deponent was when hee was a child of about
tenn yeares of age taken a slave by the Turkes and by them
sold to one Antonio Bogns an Armenian Merchant who
inhabited at Smyrna and was farmer of the Customes there [?for]
the Grand Segnior or Emperour of the Turkes with which Antonio
hee this deponent lived the space of nyne yeares ended about
three yeares since, in which tyme of nyne yeares hee did
see and observe that the arlate Lazaro Armenio did frequent
the [?Srale] or Towne of Smyrna aforesayd as an Armenian
Merchant in the Company of other Armenian Merchants as
also traded thither as the sayd Lazaro alsoe did with goods from
Persia And thereby well knoweth that the sayd Lazaro was
at Smyrna commonly accompted and reputed to be a subiect
of the King of Persia as a trader thence to Smyrna as
a Merchant Stranger And further to these articles he can
not depose./.

To the 4th and 5th articles saving his foregoing deposition
hee cannot depose, knowing nothing touching the Cutcheneale
arlate./

To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true./

To the Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING]

To the first Interrogatorie hee saith Smirna was all the places that
ever hee sawe the sayd Lazero at during the foresayd nyne yeares
saving his foregoing deposition he cannot answere./

To the 2 Interrogatorie hee saith hee this rendent was borne in Abassa in
Asia minor and there lived till hee was taken by the Turkes and [?XXX]
[?the]