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'''Mr Potter, Registrar.'''
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'''Mr Potter, Registrar.'''
The 15th of March 1659. [CENTRE HEADING]
The Keepers of the Libertie of}<br />
England by authoritie of Parliament}<br />
against the shipp the ''Pea hen'' and}<br />
her goods.}
Examined upon Interrogatories ministred by Mr Budd<br />
in the preparatorie.
'''[?dt.] [?RXXX]'''
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'''Francisco de Moralis''' of Saint Lucars de Baramada<br />
in Andalusia Captaine of the shipp the ''Pea henn''<br />
belonging to Saint Lucars aforesaid, aged 30 yeares or<br />
thereabouts sworne and examined.
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith that the said shipp ''Peahen'' belongeth<br />
to the said port of Saint Lucars, and saith shee was built at Campecha<br />
in the Spanish West Indies with the timber of that place proper for<br />
shipping, and saith that both Saint Licars and Campecha are in the<br />
dominion of the king of Spaine. And saith that hee this deponent<br />
a Spaniard and subiect of the king of Spaine is sole owner of<br />
the said vessell, and that his dwelling is at Saint Lucars aforesaid.<br />
And further deposeth not.
To the second hee saith that the said shipp being soe built at Campecha<br />
shee was afterwards met with and bought by this deponent<br />
at Cartagena in terra firma in the West Indies and thence<br />
namely about two or three yeares since carried to Saint Lucars, and made<br />
noe other voyage since till this last ion which shee came from Saint Lucars<br />
on or about the twentieth (new stile) of Aprill last, laded with<br />
cloth, stuffs, [?baises] and severall other English and ffrench commodities<br />
and fruites of Spaine, and other goods and was bound therewith<br />
according to the entrie made in Spaine for Maracas in the said terra<br />
firma, but was in truth to goe to Cartagena and havana there to<br />
discharge her lading and take in Campecha wood and other goods for<br />
account of John Wilmot and Simon delbo and companie, who hee<br />
saith laded her at Saint Lucars for the said voyage having freighted<br />
her for the same, And that accordingly her said outwards lading<br />
was dispatched at Cartagena and havana and were delivered<br />
and disposed of by John Quello a factor sent along by the said<br />
freighters, and dwelling in Saint Lucars being a Spaniard<br />
and subiect of the said king of Spaine, and further deposeth not.
To the third hee saith the shipp came last from the said port<br />
of havana before shee was seized, which seizure was made by the<br />
''Nightingale friggot'' commanded by Captaine Lightfoote, and<br />
that the goods that were in her at the time of her seizure (which<br />
happened the thirtieth of december last new stile within sight of La<br />
Palma and Teneriff) consisted in Campacha wood videlicet<br />
two thousand three hundred and fourtie kintalls and fifteene hundred<br />
hides, fourescore greate chests of sugar or thereabouts, and three or<br />
foure thousand Manacas of tobaccoe and about foure and twenty<br />
baggs of a drugg called Holappa, and this hee saith is all that<br />
was in the hold and betwixt decks saving what betwixt decks belonged to the mariners, and saith that after leaving<br />
the said Quello, at Cartagena about the said freighters busines<br />
hee this deponent went with the said shipp to Havana where the said goods were laded,<br />
and that saving<br />
six chests all the said sugar belongs to this deponent, and<br />
the said six chests and five hundred and three score hides belong five hundred and three score hides belong +
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