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To the first hee saith that hee hath well … To the first hee saith that hee hath well knowne the arlate<br />
Mr John Caseby. for Eleaven monethes Last past, for and during<br />
all which space he the said John Caseby had driven a Trade<br />
upon his owne account from this Port of London to the Canarye<br />
Islands, and hath a ffactor to that end. at Loratava in<br />
the Iland of Teneriff. called and knowne by the name<br />
of Don Christovall Alvarado; and further deposeth not
To the second and third hee saith that the said Don Christovall<br />
da Alvarado, was in the moneth of June 1658 and [?XXXX] to the ffactor<br />
or Correspondent of the said John Caseby, And saith that<br />
in the said monethes of June 1658: and before, and ever<br />
since, the said John Caseby. at the Cannaryes, did and<br />
doth with the said Alverada Trade Under a ffictious name of Peter<br />
Vander Ruben, And saith that at the time of the Lading the<br />
wines and goods in question the said Alvarado had goods<br />
and effects in his hands. belonging to the said John Caseby<br />
to a great Vallue, And saith the said Caseby traded by<br />
the said fained name of Peter vander Ruben at the<br />
Canaryes the better to secure his goods and merchandizes<br />
from seizure and Confiscation by the Spaniards, And<br />
in case the said John Caseby should trade at the Canaryes<br />
under his reall name, (hee being an English man<br />
and having lived (as this deponent hath heard) many yeeres in the<br />
Canaryes) his goods and Merchandizes would be in<br />
great danger and hazard of seizure, and Confiscation by<br />
the Spaniards; And saith it is a very usuall thing for<br />
English men and subjects of this Comonwealth to<br />
trade from this Port to the Canaryes, and at the Canaryes<br />
and from the Canaryes to this Port againe, under ffictious<br />
and fained Dutch names. The Premisses hee deposeth<br />
being Master of the ship the ''Saint Lawrence'', the voyage in<br />
question, and having made another voyage since with<br />
the said ship from hence to the Canaryes, and hether againe<br />
in which voyage the said Mr Caseby was alsoe Interested and<br />
thereby Knoweth that both the voyage in question and alsoe<br />
the last voyage the said Mr Caseby hath and doth goe under the foresaid<br />
Fictitious name, And further deposeth not./.
To the 4th hee saith that in the moneth of May last hee sawe<br />
the arlate shipp the ''Susanna ffrigot'', Abraham Philliter Master<br />
at the Canaryes and further cannot depose saving the said [XXX GUTTER]<br />
laded the said ''Susanna ffrigot''.
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laded the said ''Susanna ffrigot''.
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