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before the finishing of the said worke, an … before the finishing of the said worke, and well knoweth that the said [?XXXX]<br />
was [?XXXX] [?XXXX] and perished as aforesaid, and by reason of the said<br />
heate and stench hee ws faine to goe with and could not [?XXX] to worke<br />
[?XXX] and thereof, being ill and out of temper therewith. And they<br />
ioyntly affirme and depose that they are accustomed to worke in corne aboard<br />
shipps and otherwise and thereby are well acquainted with the condition pof<br />
that commoditie, and alsoe well knoweth thereby that in case the said corne<br />
had laine three weekes longer aboard, the best of it would have bin<br />
soe perished and [?XXXX] that it would have bin nothing worth, nor not to give<br />
unto hoggs, and if it had laine a moneth longer they beleeve it would<br />
have taken fire through its owne heate, and have fired it selfe<br />
and the said shipp.
Robert [?XXX] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]<br />
John [?XXXXX] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The sixteenth day of November 1653. [CENTRE HEADING]
The Clayme of Blaes de La Pyna}<br />
for his goods in the ''Salvador'' et cetera
Examined upon the sayd allegation
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'''Antonio de Ponte''' of Teneriffa merchant<br />
aged 30 yeares or thereabouts a witnes sworne<br />
and examined deposeth saith as followeth
To the first and the rest of the Articles of the sayd allegation This deponent<br />
saith That the arlate Blaes de La Pena, a merchant of Sevill who<br />
this deponent hath knowne well for 7 or 8 yeares now past in the monethes<br />
of September October and November 1652 was and now is the lawfull<br />
Owner of the arlate eleven baggs of wooll marked as in the margent<br />
four whereof were and are washed woolls and seven of them foule<br />
Lambs woolls unwasht, and that about the latter end of September<br />
or beginning of October he the producent caused the same to be<br />
laden att Cadiz aboard the sayd shipp ''Salvador'' Christian Cloppenbergh<br />
Master for his owne accompt to be transported to Ostend and there delivered<br />
to his Agents for his use, the reason of this deponents knowledge<br />
of and in the premisses was and is that he being att Sevill in the<br />
sayd month of September then and there saw the sayd baggs of<br />
wooll in the ware howse of the producent there, and heard him<br />
say they were his owne goods and that he would send them to<br />
Ostend aboard the sayd Christian Cloppenbergh and accordingly<br />
this deponent saw the same embarked att Sevill to be carryed<br />
downe and laden att Cadiz aboard the sayd shipp, And this<br />
deponent afterwards saw two bills of lading for the same<br />
both of one tenor in Sevill in the hands of the producent<br />
firmed with the handwriting of the sayd Christian Cloppenbergh<br />
with whose character this deponent is well acquainted. And hee<br />
further saith that the bill of lading to the allegation annexed and<br />
now shewne him is one of those bills of lading which he so saw<br />
for the sayd woolls in Sevill in the hands of the producent, and<br />
the contents thereof were and are true. And saith the sayd shipp<br />
at hernd saith the sayd shipp<br />
at her +
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