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To the third Interrogatorie hee saith that … To the third Interrogatorie hee saith that noe Spaniard or subiect of the<br />
king of Spaine hath any share or interest in the said peeces of eight claimed in this cause,<br />
and that they were consigned to be delivered to the said Ciprian Zerbi or order.
To the fourth hee saith that there were severall quantities of plate and peeces of<br />
eight seized in the said shipp which were belonging to Spaniards over and besides<br />
the foresaid twenty thousand peeces, but the number of peeces or just quantitie<br />
of what was soe belonging to Spaniards hee saith hee knoweth not. And further<br />
cannot answer.
To the fifth hee saith hee saw the said producent Ciprian Zerbi take some<br />
of the said outwards goods, out of his the said producents warehhouse at Sivill<br />
whence they were laded aboard, and the rest were laded by his order at Cadiz,<br />
and this deponent tooke a note in writing of the lading of<br />
and alsoe signed (according to the custome) three bills of lading for the same.
Ad ult reddit [?caus] [?scientie] sua [?vi] supra.
Thomas de Guzman [SIGNATURE, LH SIDE]
Fran [?demoralis] [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The fourth of October 1660. [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined upon the foresaid allegation.
[?Tollier] pred}
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'''Don Francisco de Morales''' de Saint Lucar in Reg[?XX] Hispania<br />
[?imp] Capitanens navis the ''Peahen'' alias the ''Turkey'' aetatis<br />
34 annorum aut eo circiter testis productus et juratus.
Ad primum 2 et 3 arles dicta allegaconis dicit et deponit that hee well knoweth<br />
the producent Stephan le Tellier and was acquainted with him at Cadiz<br />
having knowne him about seaven yeares last and saith that hee the said<br />
le Tellier in or about March last was a twelvemoneth caused to be<br />
laded and at Cadiz put aboard the said shipp the ''Peahen'' (then bound for the West Indies)<br />
foure and twenty bales of paper to be in the said parts of the West Indies<br />
disposed of and invested in plate to be retourned for Spaine for his account<br />
and that the said disposall and investing was intrusted to this deponent<br />
who therein was alsoe gfactor for the said producent for whose account the<br />
said goods were laded, And that the said shipp ariving with the said foure and<br />
twenty bales of paper at havana in the Iland of Cuba, this deponent there<br />
disposed and invested them in peeces of eight for the said producents account<br />
amounting to one thousand foure hundred and fourtie peeces of eight, which<br />
this deponent laded into his said shipp and consigned them to be in Spaine delivered<br />
to the said producent or his order and for his account, and that seeting saile<br />
from havanna with the said shipp and lading for Spaine, and intending to touch at the Canaries<br />
for supplie of victualls, the said shipp and lading were in december last met<br />
with and seized by Captaine John Lightfoot in the ''Nightingale frigpt'', which<br />
Captaine seized and tooke out of the said shipp into his owne custodie and<br />
cabbin in his owne frigot the valew of twenty thousand peeces of eight<br />
in plate and moneyes which were in severall chests, amongst<br />
which moneys soe seized were as hee saith the said one thousand foure<br />
hundred and fourtie peeces of eight soe as aforesaid laded for the said accounts<br />
of the producent, who by the said seizure was deprived thereof, The<br />
premisses hee deposeth being present and seeing the same soe had and<br />
donne as hee hath predeposed, And further deposeth not, saving that the<br />
said one thousand foure hundred and fourtie peeces of eight were soe laded by this deponent<br />
for the said producent in or about October 1659.
To the fourth article hee saith the said producent liveth now in Roane and is<br />
either a ffrenchman or hollander and soe accounted.
Ad ult[?e] dicit predeposita per [?eum] de vera.
Ad Interrogatoria/ [CENTRE HEADING]
And
Ad Interrogatoria/ [CENTRE HEADING]
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