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Vincent Aufrey a Master builder or shipp w … Vincent Aufrey a Master builder or shipp wright there dwelling,<br />
which hee knoweth because hee this deponent dwelling alsoe at<br />
Saint Malo's sawe her in such building there from the first begining<br />
and when shee was finished this deponent helped to launch her there<br />
and sawe her masts and rigging fitted, and saith the said Vincent<br />
Aufrey is a ffrench ship wright, and built her upon his owne account<br />
(as hee doth many vessells) and then sold her to the producents Peter<br />
and Stephen Garet merchants of Saint Malo's, which hee knoweth being<br />
at the treatie and finishing the bargain betweene them and sawe<br />
part of the money paid for her by the said Peter and Stephen Garet<br />
to the said Aufrey, And saith that ever since such her building shee<br />
hath belonged and doth still belonge to the said port of Saint Malo's<br />
and that shee never made but one voyage before this present voyage<br />
wherein this deponent goeth Commander of her and is assisted with<br />
Company of ffrench Mariners and officers, saving two of his<br />
company are hollanders. And otherwise hee cannot depose, saving that<br />
ever since the said shipps setting out to sea the said producents have<br />
bin and are her owners and for such commonly accompted, and by<br />
them this deponent was put into the command of her, and sailed<br />
her under them as owners, and that a greate part of her present<br />
lading belongeth unto them.
To the third article hee saith and deposeth that the said shipp the<br />
''don de dieu'' in this her present intended voyage was fit<br />
out and imployed on a merchandizing designe to proceed from Saint Malo's<br />
to Morlaix or Rosco, thence for Pharo in Portugall, and thence<br />
for the barr of St Lucar, and thence to followe the directions and<br />
order of Arnold Post a hollander, factor of the said producents living<br />
at Cadiz, which hee knoweth being Commander of her, and well=<br />
acquainted with the designe of the voyage.
To the fourth article hee saith hee hath seene and read in ffrench the<br />
fifteenth article of the Peace arlate, purporting as in this article<br />
is deduced, referring himselfe to the articles made between the<br />
English and ffrench Nations upon concluding the league of Amitie<br />
or Peace betwixt them.
To the fifth hee saith that the said shipp for the better securing of<br />
the present imployment was licensed to proceed therein by the<br />
duke of Vandosme, as may appeare by his passeport taken<br />
amongst the papers seized in the said shipp, and saith the said<br />
Commission or Passeport was and is true and reall. And otherwise<br />
hee cannot depose.
To the sixth hee saith that the certificate from the Magistrate of<br />
Saint Malo's likewise found amongst the said papers, dated the three<br />
and twentieth of November 1656 (or thereabouts) was and is a reall<br />
certificate and containeth the truth without fiction or colour
To the seventh hee saith that hee knoweth not of any Spanish passeport or certificate for the said [?XXX GUTTER]<br />
from holland, but that which was aboard from Majorca, was in the shipp [?first GUTTER]<br />
voyage (being then upon that coast, and desirous to lade oile)<br />
of the vice Roy for a good summe of money, as this deponent was informed by<br />
Stephen Garet himselfe who then went Captaine of her, but for the[?XX GUTTER]<br />
when hee put in the name of Peter hendrickson, a Hollander as her commander, [?XX GUTTER]<br />
truth was his Gunner, as hee is this deponent [?at] presentner, as hee is this deponent [?at] present +
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