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The 21th of November 1653./ [CENTRE HEADIN … The 21th of November 1653./ [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined upon the foresaid allegation./
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'''Antonio Fernandez Carvashall''' of London Merchant aged<br />
54 yeares or thereabouts sworne and examined saith and deposeth<br />
as followeth./
To the first article hee saith and deposeth that by the lawes of Spaine the<br />
exportation of plate from any of the Ports of that Country and Kingdome was<br />
and is absolutely forbidden and that noe man may by those lawes lade and<br />
exporte any without speciall license first had and obteyned, and that what<br />
soever parcells shall be found laden without licence are liable to be confiscated<br />
being seized by any of the Kings Officers authorized in that behalfe which hee<br />
knoweth having lived many yeares and having as a Merchant traded there and<br />
thither, for these thirty yeares last past And saith that while hee soe lived in Spaine<br />
hee sawe and tooke notice of many parcells of silver seized and confiscated for<br />
being laden without Registring and Licence obteyned but never sawe or knew any<br />
putt to death for the same And otherwise hee cannot depose./
To the second and third articles hee saith that in regard of the danger and hazard of<br />
the Lawes of Spaine made against exporting of Plate it is usuall and<br />
frequent to put in feigned names and not the true Owners or laders names<br />
into the bills of ladaeing for plate laden without Registring to the end to conceale<br />
the Laders from discovery they being as aforesayd (if discovered) lyable<br />
to the punishment ordayned by the sayd lawes, to the which lawes hee<br />
referreth himselfe. And least any discovery should be made by the writings<br />
sent in the shipp it is usuall to send the true dispatches (mentioning the<br />
true laders) over land to the persons for whome such plate is laden,<br />
and many tymes the bill of ladeing (as to the Lader) is left with a blanke<br />
And otherwise hee cannot depose./
To the 4th and 5th hee saith that hee beleeveth that there is good store of<br />
silver exported from Spaine for the Accompt of hollanders and subiects of<br />
the States of the United Netherlands since the Peace betweene Spaine and<br />
holland And otherwise hee cannot depose saving his foregoeing deposition<br />
to which hee referreth himselfe./
To the 6th and 7th hee saith hee cannot depose further then as aforesayd./
To the Interrogatories./ [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first hee saith that it is usuall and frequent for Merchant Strangers<br />
of England, fflanders, and many other countries to lade silver at Cadiz<br />
and Saint Lucars and transport the same thence to Ports beyond the seas and<br />
into other Countries, and that great quantities of plate are from tyme<br />
to tyme and have bin exported from Spaine without Licence or Registring<br />
for England fflanders and other Countries which hee knoweth having<br />
as aforesayd lived many yeares in Spaine and eversince using the<br />
trade of Spaine And otherwise hee cannot depose./
To the second hee saith that hee well knoweth that the Marchants of<br />
Antwerp, Gaunt, Lile, dunquirke, and of other places of fflaunders<br />
and Brabant subiects to the Kinge of Spaine doe drive a great and<br />
Constant trade thense for Cadiz and Saint Lucars and other partsfor Cadiz and Saint Lucars and other parts +
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