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Kinge of Spaine as by Charterparty aforesa … Kinge of Spaine as by Charterparty aforesayd doth appeare, And the sayd voyage being by this deponent<br />
performed the sayd Travers hath in persuance of the Conditions of the sayd Charterparty by him selfe and by his order paid<br />
this deponent a good part of the freight due for the sayd voyage in question according<br />
to the sayd rates and is lyable as this deponent beleeveth to pay the remaynder<br />
of the same, And saith the sayd And further saving his subsequent deposition<br />
hee cannot depose/
To the 4th 5th and 6th articles of the sayd allegation hee saith hee well knoweth the arlate<br />
Robert Bevin and that hee was and is factor for the sayd Gyles Travers at Teneriff, and<br />
verily beleeveth that by reason of an Imbargo made by the King of Spaine upon all shipps<br />
and goods of English merchants within his power in the yeere 1655 the factors of the English Merchants at Teneriff<br />
in the sayd yeere while the English shipps laye in the Roade of Oratavo or neere<br />
the Ilands of Teneriff did in behalfe of their principalls and the better to procure ladeing<br />
for their shipps then there that they might not returne home empty give or pay a summe<br />
of money unto the generall and officers of the sayd Island for admission money<br />
to lade wines under colour and pretence of being for Account of dutch merchants And the reason of such<br />
his beleefe is for that the sayd Bevin factor to the sayd Travers (with whose hand<br />
writing this deponent is well acquainted) did write unto this deponent<br />
then lying with his sayd shipp in the Roade of Oratava a letter bearing date the twenty<br />
seaventh of November 1655 (new style) therein signifying to this effect that hee had paid in the<br />
behalfe of his Principall the sayd Mr Travers a summe of money for admission<br />
money for the whole ladeing of the shipp the ''John and Mary'' aforesayd, and that<br />
according to Computation it amounted to fiftie eight Ryalls for each pipe of<br />
wine laden aboard the sayd shipp ''John and Mary'', which hee was forced to do that<br />
soe the sayd wines might passe as laden for dutch merchants Accompts to [?avoide GUTTER]<br />
the Imbargoe then upon the goods and shipps of English merchants, and further writt<br />
that the arlate Mr Burridge was gone from Oratava to Garachico and had<br />
not paid him the said Bevin his part of the admission money for such wines<br />
as hee the sayd Burridge had on on board the ''John and Mary'', and that therefore<br />
hee this deponent should forbeare to signe any bills of ladeing for the sayd<br />
Burridge his wines, unlesse one Mr Clapham who was then aboard [?an GUTTER]<br />
English shipp at Oratava Roade, or some other person would in behalfe of<br />
the sayd Burridge pay fifty eight ryalls a pipe for admission money<br />
as aforesayd, And hee saith that hee this deponent having recieved [XXX GUTTER]<br />
sayd letter did demande of the sayd Clapham in the Roade of Oratava<br />
fiftie eight Ryalls a pipe, for admission money, for [?tenn GUTTER]<br />
pipes of wine aboard the ''John and Mary'', for according to the sayd Bevin [?his GUTTER]<br />
order, which the sayd Clapham refusing to pay in behalfe of the sayd<br />
Burridge hee this deponent refused according as the sayd Bevin [?had GUTTER]<br />
ordered him by letters did refuse to signe any bills of lading for<br />
sayd tenn pipes of wyne, And further to those articles hee cannot depose.
To the 7th article hee saith hee beleeveth the arlate Travers is dammified to the value of [?five GUTTER]<br />
pounds sterling at the least by the sayd Burridge his not paying [XXX GUTTER]<br />
to the sayd Bevin<br />
to the use of the sayd Travers the sayd Admission [?money GUTTER]<br />
(which at 58 Ryalls a pipe comes to at least fifteene pounds tenn shillings<br />
sterling) which five pounds sterling profitt at the least might have bin<br />
made thereoff in this Port of London if the same had bin paid to the sayd [?Bevin GUTTER]<br />
and by him invested in wines and sent hither And further<br />
to this article hee cannot depose./ />
to this article hee cannot depose./ +
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