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or cause to bee laden any goods for any ot … or cause to bee laden any goods for any other men under all or any<br />
of the said markes, but reserve the same in peculiar to their owne<br />
goods, Which hee well knoweth by his long continued familiarity with<br />
Them and observation of their merchandizeing transacted as<br />
aforesaid, hee further saith, That the arlate Peter fferrari to<br />
whom the sugars of the said Lewis Scarlatti and Gregorio Diaz<br />
were consigned was and is alsoe an Italian borne, and is onely<br />
resident in ffrance as a Merchant stranger, which hee knoweth having<br />
had many yeares correspondence with the said fferrari, and further saith<br />
that whereas in the bill of lading signed for the goods of the said Gregorio<br />
Diaz the name of ffrancisco dirckson of hamborough was and is<br />
inserted, hee this deponent well knoweth, That both by the generall<br />
practize of Portugueze Merchants it is usuall and ordinary to<br />
insert in their bills of lading the names of free and neutrall persons<br />
as those of hamborough and others, the better to secure their goods from the<br />
Spaniards (with whom the Portuguezes are in enmity) and that in case<br />
of a meeting with Ostenders or Dunkirkers, andalsoe for that this deponent<br />
hath had particular and faithfull advise to that purpose from the said<br />
Gregorie Diaz; further this examinate saith, that hee doth by many<br />
years correspondance well knowne (sic) the arlate Philipp Bequin to<br />
whom the two bales of Cinnamon and half Chest of sugar of the<br />
said Anthonio Maria de Conte were consigned, and that hee<br />
the said Bequin was and is the ffactor and Agent of the said<br />
Anthonio Maria de Conte who constantly doeth and dispatcheth<br />
the said de Contes merchandiseing affarires in ffrance Which hee<br />
alsoe knoweth to bee true by meanes of his said Correspondence. And<br />
further cannot depose
To the third Article hee saith, it was and is true and notorious<br />
That the said shipp ''Nightingale'' with the said sugars and<br />
Cinnamon aboard her was in her Course from Lisborne<br />
to haver de Grace aforesaid mett with and seized by some of the<br />
shipps of this Commonwealth, And further cannot depose
To the last hee saith, his foregoeing deposition is true/
The same examined úpon the Crosse Interrogatories./ [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first hee saith, hee was never was in the shipp interrate<br />
and is a Native of florence in Tuscanie, and hath lived in this<br />
Citie and at Lisborne aforesaid for all the time interrate, And<br />
otherwise negatively.
To the second hee referreth himself to his foregoing deposition.
To the third hee saith, hee was not present at the buying up the goods interrate<br />
and therefore knoweth nothing thereof, otherwise than is predeposed
To the 5th hee saith hee was not at Lisborne the time interrate; and<br />
therefore cannot to this Interrogatorie further or otherwise answer than<br />
what or otherwise answer than<br />
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