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The 16th of Aprill 1659:/
[GUTTER ?Q:] ff … The 16th of Aprill 1659:/
[GUTTER ?Q:] ffernandez and others in the}<br />
''hope'' aforesaid]
Examined on the said Allegation:/
'''5:'''
'''Patrick Betts''' of Tower hill London<br />
Marriner aged 30 yeeres or thereabouts<br />
sworne and Examined:/.
To the first article of the said Allegation hee saith and<br />
Deposeth that in the monethes of May and June 1657:<br />
the arlate Mr Antonio ffernandez, Mr John Page Mr Gowen<br />
Painter and Mr Antonio Roderiguez Robles had treaty and<br />
Correspondence together about sending a ship and Cargoe<br />
of Goods from England to holland, and from thence<br />
to the Spanish West Indias, for their account, and the said<br />
Cargo was to be bartered away for Goods and Comodites<br />
of that Country for their said Account, And this deponent<br />
about the begining of the said Moneth of May 1657 as<br />
spoken to by the said Mr ffernandez, and Mr Page, to goe<br />
Master of the ship that should goe the said Voyage, which<br />
this Deponent undertooke, and this Deponent was frequently<br />
with the said Merchants and made Privy to their said Designe<br />
And after this Deponent was gone from London to Amsterdam<br />
upon the said voyage and Designe hee this Deponent and<br />
Mr Lopez and others that were made<br />
Privy to the said Designe and Voyage were hence Informed<br />
by a Letter from the foresaid Imployers that Mr Andrew<br />
Dunkyn (meaning Mr Dunkin the Producent,) was admitted<br />
a sharer in the ship that should doe the said voyage and the Cargoe that was to be Carried<br />
outward in her, and alsoe the Cargoe which should be brought<br />
home in her, And saith that the said Mr ffernandez Mr Page,<br />
Mr Painter and Mr Robles. did here buy Provide in or about the said<br />
moneth of May and June 1657 a great Quantity of goods. namely<br />
Stuffes Serges. Perpetuanas silkes Callicoes and other woollen<br />
goods. amounting to the Vallue of seaven hundred Pounds<br />
sterling or thereabouts, which said Goods the said Producents<br />
sent hence in two ships for Amsterdam, where they<br />
were to be Delivered to the arlate John Tilly, and John<br />
Chanternell Merchants Living in Amsterdam, And the arlate<br />
Peter Ayleward went hence to Amsterdam in one of the<br />
said shipps., And the said John Lopez (who was designed by<br />
the said Producents to goe Cheife Supra Cargoe the said Voyage)<br />
and this Deponent in the said other ship to Amsterdam, And<br />
the said Mr ffernandez Mr Page Mr Painter and Mr Robles<br />
sent letters over to Amsterdam with bills of Exchange inclosed to the said Tilly and Chanternell<br />
to buy and Provide more goods, and alsoe to buy a ship to goe<br />
the said Voyage, to Carry the said Goods, Carried over thether<br />
(fromds, Carried over thether<br />
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