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donne for theise two yeares last past and … donne for theise two yeares last past and upwards, and saith that the<br />
said mr Lloyd and company in the yeeres 1654 and 1655 had a very greate<br />
trade at Sevill in Spaine, and there kept a house and familie, and<br />
had there and in other parts of Spaine very great commerce and<br />
dealing by way of marchandize, which hee knoweth for that hee<br />
in that time lived with the said mr Lloyd at Sevill and wrote in<br />
his Counting house, and had the perusall of his bookes, by which<br />
alsoe hee found that they had longe before had and driven that trade<br />
and commerce.
To the second Interrogatorie hee saith that at that time of the difference<br />
breaking forth betweene England and Spaine the said Gerrard Lloyd<br />
and company had severall debts owing them by severall persons residing<br />
at Spaine, and alsoe severall goods, merchandizes and effects at<br />
Sevill, Saint Lucar, Cadiz, and other parts of Spaine amounting to<br />
(with the household stuff they had at Sevill) to the summe of sevean<br />
thousand and nine hundred pounds or thereabouts in this deponents<br />
estimation, which hee deposeth because hee then dwelt with mr<br />
Lloyd as aforesaid, and was acquainted with the premisses.
To the third hee saith that the said Gerrard Lloyd and company<br />
lately in this present yeare 1656 sent severall goods and<br />
merchandizes from this port of London to Cadiz in Spaine<br />
in the shipp called the ''ffortune'' of Hambrough<br />
and alsoe in the shipp called the ''hare in the ffeilde'', amounting<br />
in all to the summe and valew of one thousand seaven hundred ninetie<br />
wight pounds and tenn shillings, which hee knoweth, having<br />
seene the bookes concerning the same, And saith that the said<br />
goods arriving at Cadiz, have bin there seized<br />
by the officers of the king of Spaine, as hee hath seene by letters of<br />
advice thense, and saith that the said goods soe seized in the said two shipps<br />
and detained, and the foresaid goods, effects, debts, merchandizes and<br />
(household stuffe which were alsoe seized by the said officers) amounted<br />
in all to the summe and valew of nine thousand and sixe hundred<br />
pounds sterling, according to the said bookes and accounts, soe that<br />
the said Gerrard Lloyd and company who have bin dispoiled and<br />
deprived of the said goods, merchanizes, debts and effects have suffered<br />
losse and damage to the said summe of nine thousand and sixe<br />
hundred pounds sterling in this deponents estimation.
Ben Bathurst [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 22th of September 1656.
The widowe and heires of Rasmus}<br />
Rasmusson against Southwood.}
Exámined upon the foresaid allegation.
'''vide 1d, 2us. A.14 13 3'''
'''L[XX]bk: dt:'''
'''3'''
'''Thomas Harrison''' of Wapping in the County<br />
of Middlesex Victualler, aged 37 yeares or<br />
thereabouts sworne and exámined.
To the first árticle hee cannot depose.
Too the first árticle hee cannot depose.
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