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To eight and twentieth article hee saith a … To eight and twentieth article hee saith and deposeth That forth with after the<br />
said shipp was soe brought to the said Captaine Stokes, her bulke was by his order<br />
broke, and all her hoods and merchandizes taken out at Thulon by his owne<br />
proper authoritie without being sent for England to be here proceeded<br />
against, having withall possessed himselfe of her papers and documents as<br />
aforesaid, referring himselfe to his foregoeing deposition, and further cannot depose.
To the 29th hee saith and deposeth that all and singular the foresaid goods<br />
soe laded and taken aboard the said shipp the ''Santa Maria'' at Santa Domingo as<br />
aforesaid consisting in hides, cacoa, tobacco, Brazil wood and ginger<br />
were wholly and entirely aboard the said shipp and the said fflute the<br />
''Propatria'' when the said Captaine Story made the said seizure, and came<br />
entirely to the hands and possession of the said Captaine Story and Captaine<br />
Stoakes (and their disposall of this deponents sight and knowledge, referring<br />
himselfe for the particularities, weights, numbers and measures to his<br />
foregoeing deposition and especially to the said bills of lading.
To the 30th article hee saith and deposeth that the articulate Philip van<br />
hulten, henry Matthias, Christian Cotsenburgh and Cornelius Mayeart<br />
were and are dutch men. Marchants, dwellers and keepers of houses with<br />
families at Amsterdam, and for such this deponent hath there knowne them<br />
for theise tenn or eleaven yeares last, and for such they were and are commonly<br />
accounted, and were and are subiects of the States of the United Netherlands<br />
and greate dealers to the Canaries and other places beyond the seas in<br />
traffique and marchandize, and have factors and correspondents there.
To the 31th hee saith hee hath knowne the arlate Cornelius van Suyskens<br />
foure or five yeares last having knowne him at Cadiz before hee went to the<br />
Canaries, and saith hee is a hollander, and lives at the Canaries as<br />
a factor and hath not lived there above a yeare and halfe as hee taketh it, and<br />
was and is a batchelour and factor of the said Philip van hulten and company,<br />
and for such commonly accounted.
To the 32th hee saith hee alsoe well knoweth the arlate Peter Ren{?ienson]<br />
and hath often seene and bin with him at Cadiz, where hee dwelleth as a<br />
factor, and marchant,<br />
and saith the said Ren[?ierson] is alsoe a dutch man,<br />
and borne as this deponent taketh it at Amsterdam, and a subiect of the said<br />
States of the United Netherlands, and for such as aforesaid hee was and is<br />
commonly accompted.
To the 33th article hee deposeth and saith that in case the said John Moller<br />
and this deponent had not soe met with the said order of the said Philip van<br />
hulten at Santa Cruse in Teneriff, they had (and this deponent was fully<br />
purposed to) come with the said shipp ''Santa Maria'' and her said lading to Amsterdam<br />
and not to Spaine or any other place, and that in case the said Captaine<br />
Stor[?e]y had not come and made the said seizure, all the said hides and Brazil<br />
wood were intended and had bin sent and delivered (the perills of the seas<br />
excepted) to the said van hulten and company at Amsterdam, as was ordered<br />
and designed as aforesaid, which hee knoweth for the reasons aforesaid, and<br />
further cannot depose.
Tp the foure and thirtieth hee saith that by the bills of lading<br />
signed as aforesaid by this deponent the said goods and merchandizes soe laded at<br />
Santa Domingo are said to be for the proper account of the said Philip van hulten<br />
and company, and if they are their proper goods as hee beleeveth they are, they must and doe (as hee<br />
saith) run the hazard and adventure thereof, and by the said bills they are said<br />
soee said bills they are said<br />
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