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The 28th day of May 1653. [CENTRE HEADING] … The 28th day of May 1653. [CENTRE HEADING]
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Examined upon the sayd Allegation
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'''Roderigo Alonzo''' of Cadize in Spayne<br />
merchant aged three and thirty yeares or<br />
thereabouts a witnes sworne and examined.
To the first and second Articles of the sayd Allegation, This deponent saith and<br />
deposeth. That the arlate don Antonio da Ponte in the monthes of May June<br />
July August September October and November 1652. was and att this<br />
present is the true and lawfull Owner and Proprietor of the arlate six barrs<br />
of sylver marked as in the margent that is to say two of the first<br />
[FIRST MARKE, LHS]<br />
and four of the second marke, and for lawfull Owner of the same<br />
[SECOND MARKE, LHS]<br />
was and is commonly accounted. And further saith that he this deponent<br />
being att the West Indies in the sayd moneth of May 1652 there [?saw]<br />
the arlate Don Antonio buy the same att the Havana, and afterwards<br />
for his owne Accompt to embarque the same upon the ''Saint Juan Baptista''<br />
Juan Sericho Master to be transported to Cadize arlate, whither the<br />
sayd shipp the ''Saint John Baptista'' with the sayd sylver aboard safely<br />
arrived, the producent being there in quiet possession thereof, towards<br />
the latter end of July. And further saith that this deponent [?hath]<br />
come from Havana aforsayd in another shipp of the Spanish plate [?ffleet]<br />
saw the producent a few dayes after carry and take the [?arlate]<br />
barrs of sylver marked as aforesayd from the ''Saint Juan Baptista''<br />
aboard the shipp ''Sampson'' arlate this deponent being then aboard<br />
saw and tooke notice that the sayd producent laded the same for [?his]<br />
owne Accompt to be transported to Oostend, and there to be deliverd [?to]<br />
the sayd producent for his owne Accompt. And otherwise [?this]<br />
deponent cannot depose, saving that the producent and this [?deponent]<br />
came together with the sylver arlate from Cadize in this voyage<br />
aboard the sayd shipp ''Sampson'' Otto George Master, and continued<br />
constantly aboard from their first embarquing to the tyme of [?the] [?seizure]
To the third and fourth Articles this deponent saith that att the tyme [?of the]<br />
lading of the sayd barrs of sylver, the arlate Pedro de Campo videlicet<br />
was the Purser of the sayd shipp ''Sampson'', and the sayd Pedro aboard [?the]<br />
sayd shipp in the precontest and sight of this deponent, (his this deponent<br />
preconteste Lorenso de Veles and Pasquall Andrada being then likwewise []<br />
signed three bills of ladeing all of one tenor, whereof the bill of []<br />
to the sayd allegation annexed which he hath now seene and perused is a []<br />
And the Contents thereof are true and were so had and [?doone] as [?in] [?]<br />
is expressed. And saith that [?he] [?perfectly] reemembreth that the sayd [?bills]<br />
all of them signed not long after the beginning of September []<br />
on or about the very day in the bill annexed menioned as he [?beleiveth].<br />
And further saith that afterwards the arlate shipp the ''Sampson''<br />
the sayd six barrs of sylver being aboard, and this deponent a passenger<br />
departed from the bay of Cadize towards Oostend, and [?in] her [?Ca]<br />
thither after her arrivall in the Downes was taken and seized [?by]<br />
a Man of Warre of this Commonwealth, and by meanes of the [?sayd]<br />
seizure the sylver arlate came into the possession of the Captaine [?th]<br />
so tooke the ''Sampson'', this deponent being then aboard, and having<br />
continued from the tyme of his first embarquing att Cadize as [?]<br />
predeposed. And otherwise he cannot depose.edeposed. And otherwise he cannot depose. +
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