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HCA 13/70 f.215r Annotate
First transcribed 10 December 2014  +
First transcriber Colin Greenstreet  +
Folio 215  +
Parent volume HCA 13/70  +
Side Recto  +
Status Uploaded image; transcribed on 10/12/2014  +
Transcription The 26th day of January .1654:- [CENTRE HEThe 26th day of January .1654:- [CENTRE HEADING] Examined upon a Libell exhibited on the<br /> behalf of the said ffrancisco Lorenzo de<br /> Lara./ '''Arnold de Groot''' of London Merchant aged 26.<br /> yeares or thereabouts a Wittnesse sworne and examined<br /> saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet/ To the said Libell and articles therein conteyned hee saith and deposeth, That in<br /> or about the moneth of May last past, one Thomas Gusman a Spanish<br /> Merchant residing in this City having on the behalfe of the said fffrancisco<br /> Lorenzo de Lara procured a Warrant of this Court for the arresting of<br /> the lillate William Peer, addressed to this deponent and others, the said Thomas<br /> Gusman came to this deponent and desired him by Vertue of the said Warrant to arrest<br /> the said William Peer, which this deponent some daies after accordingly performed<br /> and the said William Peer so arrested, this deponent kept in safe Custodie for two<br /> daies before security was entred into this Court on the said Peers behalfe for and<br /> concerning the action in Controversy, during which time of the said William<br /> Peers detention, hee confessed and acknowledged to this deponent in manner and<br /> forme following, To witt, That hee the said William Peer in the yeare<br /> 1647. lillate was Master or Commander of the lillate shipp the ''dragon'', and<br /> that in the said yeare hee was in and with the said shipp in the Roade of<br /> Mallega in Spaine, where hee was ordered and commanded to give in<br /> security that the said shipp shuld not bring in any Contrebanda goods<br /> nor depart out of the said Roade without the speciall permission of the<br /> Officers of the king of Spaine belonging to that Port, and that thereupon the<br /> lillate ffrancisco Lorenzo de Lara had become fidejussor, and had entred<br /> Caution and engaged himselfe to the effect above mentioned, in the summe of<br /> two Thousand duckatts or five hundred pounds sterling as penaltie in Case<br /> the said shipp should depart thence without permission as abovesaid [#} [#] [LH MARGIN AT 90 DEGREES]<br /> And saith the said William Peer then also acknowledged this deponent, That after hee had done his busines<br /> at Malega in the Voiage aforesaid, ther winde coming faire, hee departed thence with his said shipp in the<br /> night time, notwithstanding the said securitie, nor having any such permission to depart thence as aforesaid/<br /> Arnold de Groote [SIGNATURE, LH MARGIN AT 90 DEGREES] And otherwise<br /> referring himselfe to the Entries and records lillate and to the Acts of this<br /> Court, and to the Law hee saith hee cannot further depose./ To the Crosse Interrogatories./ [CENTRE HEADING] To the first Interrogatorie hee saith and deposeth, That hee cometh to be a Wittnes in<br /> this Cause by the procurement of the said Thomas Gusman, and hath no<br /> share interest or concernment therein, neither doeth hee expect either prejudice<br /> or benefitt by the overthrow or Victorie of the said ffrancisco Lorenzo de Lara<br /> the plaintiffe in the same, And otherwise negatively to every point thereof./: To the second Interrogatorie hee saith, hee this rendent never saw the interrate William<br /> Peer before the time of the arrest aforesaid, and saith this rendent saw him last<br /> in this City about 2. moneths since, and that hee is, as this rendent beleeveth<br /> of the age of about 40. or 50. yeares, and that hee is of a sanguine complexion<br /> (and of a sanguine complexion<br /> (and  +
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