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to be transported from Marsailles to haver … to be transported from Marsailles to haver da Grace, and Amsterdam, at nine<br />
pounds flemish per cent, And saith two hundred pounds fflemish<br />
amounteth to or maketh one hundred pounds sterling and upwards, And<br />
saith the said Laurenzo Mutio received the Praemium upon the said<br />
Assurance after the rate aforesaid to this deponents use, and made<br />
a good untohim upon accompt, And saith that hee this deponent<br />
was and is a subiect of this Commonwealth, and borne in the parish<br />
of Saint Andrews Undershaft London. And further that after the<br />
said Assurance soe made and passed at Antwerp, hee this deponent<br />
having received intelligence from his said factor of the making<br />
thereof, and willing to secure himselfe and advance some proffit<br />
thereby, in regard the assurance at London was then lesse<br />
than at Antwerp, did on or about the 28th of November 1651<br />
in London cause the summe of one hundred pounds sterling (as a<br />
reassurace upon the said goods) to be assured by daniell Andrews<br />
and henry Spurstowe of London merchants, subiects of this<br />
Commonwealth, for and at the rate of seaven pounds per cent<br />
from Marseilles to haver da Grace and thence to Amsterdam,<br />
And thereupon a writing os assurance was made betweene them<br />
and duely executed, and the Praemium thereupon duely satisfied<br />
by this deponent to the said Andrews and Spurstowe. And<br />
that the schedule annexed and nowe showed unto him, was and is<br />
the said writing or Pollicie of Assurance, and was and is subscribed<br />
with the names and sirnames of the said Andrews and Spurstowe<br />
and was so subscribed by them on or about the day of the date<br />
of the same, which date was some monethes or weekes before<br />
the taking of the said shipp and goods, by the shipps of this<br />
Commonwealth, and that the contents of the sad writing were<br />
and are true and soe had and donne as therein it contained,<br />
which hee knoweth being one of the parties in the same<br />
And otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the fourth hee saith that it was then a thinge used and<br />
practised by and amongest merchants in London and [?XXXX GUTTER]<br />
to assure goods at one place or citie where the assurance was<br />
high, and (to secure themselves) to reassure the same [?assurance GUTTER]<br />
where the assurance was lowe, And otherwise hee cannot depose
Giles Vandeput [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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2 Marty 1654/ [LH SIDE]
To the Interrogatories [LH SIDE]
To the first and second hee answereth that hee never sawe the pollicie or<br />
writing of assurance (soe farr as hee remembreth) before mentioned to be made<br />
at Antwerp, hee not having bin in those parts in 7 yeares last, And<br />
otherwise referring homselfe to his foregoing deposition and to the schedule annexed<br />
to the said allegation, hee cannot depose saving as aforesaid.
To the third negatively, saving as aforesaid.
Repeated before doctor Godolphin.
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The same day. [CENTRE HEADING]
./:'''Giles Vandeput'''}
Examined upon the foresaid allegation.'}
Examined upon the foresaid allegation. +
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