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and the respective numbers and valews ther … and the respective numbers and valews thereof, which said letters with the bills of<br />
lading te producent received in or about the moneths of August September and October 1652.<br />
And saith That the bills of lading annexed, and now shewed unto him this examinate<br />
were and are the true bills of lading sent unto and received by the said producent<br />
for his said silver and bullion, Which hee beleeveth were really subscribed and firmed<br />
by the said Masters or their Pursers, and that the Contents thereof are true. The<br />
premisses hee deposeth having, by reason of his imployment aforesaid, seene and perused<br />
the said letters and vills of ladeing immediately after ther arrivall or comeing to<br />
the producents hands at Antwerp, at or about the time aforesaid, and knowing of<br />
the said bills being sent into England by the producent for the reclaiming of his said<br />
silver. And further hee cannot depose:-/
To the sixth hee saith, That the Bookes and Accompts of the said producent<br />
were and are duely and orderly kept by way of Creditors and debitors according to the<br />
Custome of Merchants, And saith That soone after That the said producent had<br />
received advise of the ladeing of the said silver and bullion for his accompt aboard<br />
the said shipps together with the prizes and Charges thereof, the said producent did<br />
give the said Laders Creditt for the same. according to theire severall pproportions in his<br />
bookes of accompts, and made himselfe debitor to them respectively by way of<br />
defalcation of his effects being in their hands, and by the bookes so kept and<br />
accompts made betweene Merchant and Merchant, and letters of advise they<br />
became lyable to and discharged from each other for very considerable summes<br />
Which hee very well knoweth, being Booke keeper as aforesaid, and by meanes<br />
thereof haveing seene and assisted in the premisses, and entred them into the said<br />
books and Accompts as is predeposed. And further hee cannot depose/:-
To the seaventh hee saith, That for the reasons predeposed hee is fully assured in<br />
Conscience, that the particular quantities of silver and bullion aforesaid really<br />
were and are for the sole accompt and adventure of the said producent, And<br />
knoweth well that no dutch or ffrench subjects of the States of the United Netherlands<br />
or ffrench King had or have any manner of interest in the said silver or any part<br />
thereof. And further hee cannot depose:-/
To the eighth hee saith, the arlate John Bollart is a Native of Antwerp, an<br />
Inhabitant there and a Subject of the King of Spaine, and for such notoriously<br />
knowne, and the said Gerard de Riper John Lopez de Molina and others the laders<br />
of the silver aforesaid are commonly accompted Inhabitants in Cadiz,<br />
and Subjects to His Majestie of Spaine, between whom and this<br />
Commonwealth there is peace and amity. And further hee cannot depose:-/
To the nineth hee saith, That the trade of silver and vullion is more secretly annd<br />
privately managed amongst Merchants, then their trade in other Commodities<br />
and that the greatest part of silver in this part of the world hath and doeth usually<br />
come from Spaine to the sngular benefit of all places where it is imported, and the<br />
obstructing thereof must of necessity be an infinite prejudice to Commerce, Which<br />
hee knoweth by his relation to, and diligent observation of Merchants affaires<br />
of this nature. And further cannot depose./
To the tenth, hee saith it is notorious, That the said shipps in their Course<br />
(fromd shipps in their Course<br />
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