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Merchants and as hee hath heard hath bin s … Merchants and as hee hath heard hath bin soe tyme out of mynde) for them to transferr and assigne over goods shippes debts due,<br />
either by bond, bill of Exchange, or otherwise, one to an other in payment of<br />
such summes as they owe to those they make such transferranses or assignments<br />
to, which transferranses of Assignements are usually among merchants accepted<br />
of and held goods in lawe to discharge them one from an other, and it would as hee<br />
beleeveth bee a great hinderanse to merchants in their trade if they should not<br />
allowe of them And further hee cannot depose./
To the 5th hee saith hee well knoweth that the sayd Christopher Boone is an<br />
Inhabitant of this Cittie of London and a subiect of this Commonwealth this hee<br />
knoweth for that hee this deponent is at present his servant in house And saith<br />
hee beleeveth for the reasons aforesayd that the sayd Boone hath made reall and sufficient<br />
satisfaction to the sayd Goldsmith for the silver and Cutcheneale arlate, and is by reason<br />
of his acceptance of the sayd Transferense thereof made to him by the sayd Goldsmith<br />
become the true lawfull and sole Owner and Proprietor of the sayd silver and Cutcheneale,<br />
and cannot as hee beleeveth revert upon the sayd Goldsmith or recover any other<br />
satisfaction from him for the two hundred thousand Ryalls plate which the<br />
sayd Goldsmith ought him before the makeing the sayd Transferense And further<br />
to this article hee cannot depose/.
To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true/
To the Interrogatories/ [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith hee is now an Apprentice to the<br />
Interrogate Mr Christopher Boone, and soe hath bin for some moneths last<br />
past And saith hee hath noe relation to Adrian Goldsmith, nor<br />
hath any Interest in the clayme Interrogate, and cometh to bee a wittnes by the<br />
meanes of his Master Mr Christopher Boone, who knowing that this deponent<br />
resided in the yeare 1654 in Spaine with the fforesayd Anthony Upton the sayd Mr<br />
Boones Corresponedent, required him to testifie the truth in this cause, and saith it<br />
will bee noe benefitt to him in case the goods Interrogate bee restored./
To the 2 hee saith hee was not present at the makeing of the Accompts betweene the<br />
sayd Boone and Goldsmith, neither were the sayd Boone and Goldsmith as hee beleeveth present at it them<br />
selves, but the same (as hee hath heard the sayd Anthony Upton affirme) was made by<br />
him the sayd Upton as Agent for the sayd Boone and the sayd de Loon and Panninque<br />
as Agents for the sayd Goldsmith And further hee cannot answere/
To the last hee saith hee was not present at the passing of the Instrument<br />
of Transferense betweene Mr Boone and Mr Goldsmith, but beleeveth the same<br />
was made at Antwerpe where the sayd Goldsmith dwelleth, and verily beleeveth and<br />
is perswaded in his conscience for the reasons aforesayd that the sayd Transferense<br />
was reall and not colourable And further cannot answere/
Ben Bathurst [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
Repeated before doctor Godolphin/H SIDE]
Repeated before doctor Godolphin/ +
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