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receave ladeing of wines and other goods a … receave ladeing of wines and other goods at Mallega and departe thense quietly<br />
therewith for England, and hee verily beleeveth<br />
and is perswaded in his conscience that the arlate Browneing (if hee had at<br />
the same tyme arrived with his shipp and ladeing at Mallega and followed the<br />
Order and direction of the factor of the arlate Bulkely there) might have<br />
unladen and reladed there as well as other English shipps did, for<br />
that this deponent knoweth not of any English shipp that arrived there<br />
which returned thense empty, but did unlade and relade there as their occasions<br />
did require notwithstanding the sayd difference And further saving<br />
his foregoeing deposition hee cannot depose./
To the rest of the articles of the sayd allegation hee is not examined by<br />
direction of the producent./
To the Interrogatories/ [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith hee came to testifie at the request of the producent<br />
Bulkley to whome hee is not of kinne, and saith hee hath noe interest in this cause<br />
nor will it bee either profitt or preiudice to him which soever of the parties<br />
litigant prevaile in this suite./
To the 2 hee saith hee knoweth not the interrogate Richard Parker or Robert Parker<br />
nor the Interrate Johnson and therefore cannot answere to this Interrogatorie./
To the 3 hee saith hee was resident at Voles Mallega when the difference<br />
first Was first knowne to bee happened betwixt England and Spaine and saith<br />
it was first knowne there the tenth of September 1655 and saith that at the<br />
first all men shipps and goods of the English which could bee found by the<br />
Spaniards were at Voles Mallega and Mallega seized and kept under Imbargo or restrainte, but saith<br />
that within tenn or fifteene dayes after the officers of the King of Spaine<br />
did upon request made to them give liberty to the English Merchants and<br />
ffactors at Mallega and Voles Mallega (notwithstanding the sayd Imbargo)<br />
to receave ladeing, and relade shipps in manner as in his foregoeing<br />
deposition is declared, yet saith that divers of the goods of English merchants<br />
which were on shoare and seized on at the first beginning of the Imbargo<br />
were about three moneths after confiscated and sold, And saith hee this respondent<br />
and other English ffactors were imprisoned for a smale tyme<br />
though as plainly appeared to this deponent by a sight of the King<br />
of Spaines Order touching the sayd Imbargo) the officers at Mallega and Voles<br />
Mallega had noe authority from the King soe to doe, neither were any English<br />
Merchants soe farr as this deponent ever heard imprisoned in any part of<br />
Spaine save Mallega and Voles Mallega, and saith the sayd Officers did<br />
seize some household goods of this deponents, and kept them in depos[?is]to<br />
about three moneths before they confiscated them And further saith that in case<br />
the Interrogate Browneing had bin at Mallega with his shipp upon the first<br />
dayh his shipp upon the first<br />
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