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and six pence per quarter and not more. An … and six pence per quarter and not more. And saith as this deponent is<br />
creadibly informed and beleiveth the like good sound wheat<br />
is usually bought and sold in the marketts in Kent and other<br />
places in England att the sayd rates of 19 ''s'' and 20 ''s'' by the<br />
quarter. att the present. And otherwise cannot depose
upon the rest his is nor examined by direction
To the Crosse Interrogatories
To the 1. 2. 3. and 4th he saith he knoweth nothing thereof
Richard Batson [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
Repeated before}<br />
Doctor Clarke and Doctor Godolphin}.
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The 24th of Novermber 1653
The Clayme of Henry Baldero English}<br />
merchant for forty peices of Searges}<br />
[?with mark] underwritten lately seized}<br />
in a shipp called the ''Roterdam'' of which}<br />
Ingelbert Vandersee was Master taken by}<br />
a [?private] man of warr whereof [BLANK IN MANUSCRIPT]}<br />
[?XX] was Commannder and by him brought}<br />
[?XX] Suckly. Smith}
Examined upon an allegation on the behalfe<br />
of the sayd Henry Baldero
'''.1.'''
'''William Cotton''' borne att Colchester in the<br />
County of Essex, now liveing att Roterdam<br />
in Holland and merchant Cashier to the sayd<br />
Henry Baldero aged two and twenty yeares<br />
or thereabouts, a witnes sworne and<br />
examined deposeth and saith as followeth
Tp the first Article of the sayd allegation This deponent saith that for many<br />
and divers yeares last past there hath bene an English Company<br />
of merchant Adventurers Resident in the Citty of Roterdam, and that<br />
the arlate Henry Baldero hath bene for a yeare now past and upwrds<br />
Treasurer of the sayd Companie of English merchants and so is att<br />
this present, and the sayd Henry Baldero was and is an Englishman<br />
and well affected to this Nation and the Government thereof, and that he<br />
hath of the certaine knowledge and sight of this deponent releived many English<br />
Seamen that have bene taken prisoners in the service of this Commonwealth in the present troubles<br />
and hath procured the Libertyes of many of them and provided shipping<br />
to transport them for England, All which this deponent well knoweth<br />
being servant and Cashier to the sayd Henry Baldero, and otherwise<br />
cannot depose.
To the second article of the sayd allegation, This deponent saith that in or about<br />
the moneth of June last past the sayd Henry Baldero did buy and<br />
provide for his owne accompt att Dunkerke in fflanders of and from Joos<br />
Vrymonet the foresayd forty peices of English serges<br />
for eighteene hundred guilders the first penny, and did cause
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the same being marked and numbred as in the margent to be<br />
laden att Dunkerke aboard the arlate shipp the ''Roterdam'' whereof the<br />
arlate Inglebert vandersee was Master to be transported from tehnce<br />
to Roterdam for the use and benefitt of him the sayd Henry Baldero<br />
who is and ought to be the true and lawfull owner and Proprietor<br />
thereof, the premisses he knoweth to be true for that the sayd henry<br />
Baldero about the sayd moneth of June went from Roterdam tO Dunkerke<br />
and att his Returne back which was after 3 or 4 dayes absence acquainted<br />
this deponent with the price and person<br />
of them they were bought and caused this deponent to make entryes<br />
thereof in his bookes of Accompts which this deponent did accordinglycompts which this deponent did accordingly +
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