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sugar for their accompt according to consi … sugar for their accompt according to consignement to his factor there,<br />
and saith that the said affraightment of the said Mr fford this deponent<br />
having delivered the said lead and sugars at Haver da Grace<br />
hee should goe with the said shipp in ballast to Saint Malo's and thence<br />
bring a cargo of goods to this port for accompt of him or of him<br />
and companie, which this deponent accordingly did, and at Saint Malo's<br />
received the said shipps lading in bales of linnen for the said accompt<br />
referring himselfe to his Roll or manifest of his said lading<br />
seized by Captaine Nixon and to the bills of lading signed by him<br />
for the particularitie of the said cargo of goods; and that the said cargo was aboard<br />
at the time of the said seizure by Captaine Nixon, and noe silver,<br />
Jewells, armes or ammunition were in the said shipp; and<br />
saith that the said cargo of linnens were laden by monsieur Le Mot<br />
Arman, and consigned to this port to the said Mr fford, And<br />
otherwise hee cannot depose, showuîng as aforesaid and what followeth
To the sixth hee saith hee signed only three bills of lading for<br />
the said cargo of linnens, which were all of one tenor, and were<br />
and are all true and reall, and that the goods were really consigned<br />
to the port mentioned in the said bills, namely this port of London,<br />
and were and are truely and really (as hee verily beleeveth) belonging to the person<br />
or persons to whom they are consigned or for XXXX accompt they are<br />
in the said bills mentioned to be laden, namely to the said Mr fford or to<br />
him and companie, and the said Monsieur Le Mot Arman alsoe told<br />
and acquainted this deponent that the said goods were for the said account<br />
And otherwise hee cannot depose, saving as aforesaid
To the seventh hee saith his company at the time of the said seizure<br />
consisted of 6 men and a boy, two of the men and the said boy<br />
hee saith are Hambergers, two Danes, one ffrenchman, the steersman<br />
a Middleburger, but hired by this deponent here at London, and this<br />
is one of the said Hamburgers, having lived there and bin a burger there<br />
26 yeares and bin a married man and housekeeper there soe longe,<br />
but was borne in Pomerland, and otherwise negatively.
To the 8th hee saith hee was borne under the dominion of the<br />
Duke of Pomerland, but nowe the said countrey is under the Swedes<br />
and touching the rest hee hath satisfied the same before.
To the 9th negatively.
To the 10th hee saith hee alsoe signed a bill of lading for the said<br />
good for Amsterdam, which was donne mearly for a colour and to<br />
preserve the said goods from seizure by the Hollanders in case hee<br />
should be met withall by them, and for the selfe same reason hee<br />
brought none of the three bills predeposed signed for<br />
London, alonge in the said shippe, but brought the said false and<br />
colourable bill for Amsterdam, which came to the hands of the<br />
said Nixon, and left the said three true bills at Saint Malo's with<br />
the said factor.
To the 11th negatively.
To the 12th hee saith hee was to receive the the freight for the said<br />
goods of the said Mr fford here upon deliverie, namelie the said<br />
[?XXXX]erie, namelie the said<br />
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