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1653. 1654 and 1655 and for some time befo … 1653. 1654 and 1655 and for some time befoe the said Gerrard lloyd<br />
and company had a very greate trade at Sevill in Spaine and did there keepe<br />
a house and familie, and had at Sevill and other parts in Spaine very greate<br />
commerce and traffique by way of Merchandize, which hee knoweth for that<br />
hee this deponent lived at Sevill aforesaid in the<br />
same house where they kept their factory and managed their said trade,<br />
and soe came to take notice thereof.
To the second Interrogatorie hee saith and deposeth that at the time of<br />
the difference breaking forth betweene England and Spaine in the yeere<br />
1655, the said Gerrard Lloyd and company had severall debts owing them<br />
by severall persons residing in Spaine, and alsoe several goods and<br />
merchandizes, and other effects in Sevill, Saint Lucar,<br />
Cadiz and other parts of Spaine, and household stuff at Sevill aforesaid,<br />
all amounting in his estimation to the summe or valew of seaven<br />
thousand and nine hundred pounds, which hee deposeth having bin<br />
privie to their merchandizing transactions.
To the third hee deposeth that the said Gerrard Lloyd and company<br />
lately in this present yeere 1656 sent severall goods and merchandizes<br />
from this port of London to Cadiz in Spaine in the shipp called the<br />
''ffortune'' of hambrough and shipp called the ''Hare in the ffeild''<br />
, which hee knoweth being in the said two shipps, and alsoe their<br />
foresaid goods, merchandizes and houshold stuff, debts and effects were seized or detained<br />
by the officers and subiects of the king of Spaine and with held from the<br />
said Lloyd and company who are quiet (sic) deprived thereof, and thereof therein<br />
have suffered losse and dammage in this deponents estimation to the summe<br />
and valew of nine thousand and six hundred pounds sterling; And<br />
saith hee this deponentw as in Spaine when the said two shipps and<br />
goods therein were seized and sawe them under the said seizre, and<br />
the said lloyd and companies goods merchandizes and effects ashore, were<br />
[XXXXXXXX] seized or detained when theire was a seizure or detention of all English mens goods there
Repeated before doctor Godolphin.
Moses Bathurst [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 22th of September 1656.
On the behalfe of mr [?Chr ?Boone]}<br />
[GUTTER XXX] London Merchant touching the}<br />
[GUTTER ?fflying ?hart] and goods.}
'''dt [?BXXXX].'''
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'''Moses Bathurst''' of London Merchant, aged<br />
28 yeeres or thereabouts, sworne before the Judges<br />
of the high Court of Admiraltie and<br />
exámined upon certaine Interrogatories ministred in<br />
the behalfe of mr Christopher Boone of London<br />
and companie touching their losse in the shipp the<br />
''fflying hart'', Peter Williamson master.
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith and deposeth that in this present<br />
yeere 1656 there was taken in this port of London for the account of<br />
[the GUTTER]or the account of<br />
[the GUTTER] +
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