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the said shipp being so bought and procure … the said shipp being so bought and procured for the said voyage, the said goods<br />
soe carried from England were laded aboard her, together with linnens<br />
Wines and other goods and ?spXXXXes provided in Holland, and this lading<br />
being ?ther s?sorted, the said shipp departed from Amsterdam therewith in September<br />
last was a twelve moneth bound for the West Indies, not being limited<br />
to any particular port, but left to the discretion of the said John Lopez<br />
with the advise of this deponent to manage the voyage in those parts to the<br />
best advantage of her said Imployers, of which hee saith Mr Page, Mr Painter<br />
and Mr dunkin are English men and Inhabitating merchants of this citie<br />
Mr Antonio ffernandez Caravajall, and Mr Antonio Rodriguez Robles alsoe<br />
merchants of this citie and reputed Portugueses, but Mr ffernandez is there<br />
indenizened, John Tilly an Irishman borne but living in Amsterdam<br />
where alsoe liveth the said John Ch?anterwell, who hath formerly lived<br />
long in London, but whose countrey man he is this deponent knoweth not<br />
And saith the said shipp from Amsterdam went directly to the Island of<br />
Trinidad, and was there Registred and entred as a Spanish shipp, and<br />
thereby and by presents to the Gouvernor and others (for which some goods<br />
were there sold) shee by the good conduct of the said John Lopez (who XXXX ?with them and obtained license and passe port for prattique on ?any<br />
the Spanish coasts in those parts. And being therewith furnished shee departed<br />
in or about November 1657 to Comana a coast on the terra firma and<br />
there sold to the valew ?or summa of a thousand peeces of eight of her goods<br />
and received the money for the same and then went to Truxillo, and<br />
there sold of her said outwards cargo for about seaven thousand peeces of<br />
eight, and leaving the money there, shee went further into the<br />
Gulfe of Honduras and there sold and trucked away all the rest of<br />
said goods, and there tooke in three hundred eightie three chests or thereabouts<br />
of Indico (saving that nine or tenn of those chests contained druggs) and<br />
eleaven skinns of Indico and two baskets or potaccoes and two barrells of druggs<br />
and then retourning to Truxillo shee there tooke in eleaven hundred and twelve XXXes or thereabouts of Sassaperilla, and fowre<br />
hundred seaventie six hides, or thereabouts, which sassaperillla and hides<br />
were the procured of the said moneys so left ashore at Truxillo at the<br />
said time of the said shipps first being there, All which goods she received<br />
in at the west Indias were the goods of and laded for the sole account of<br />
the aforenamed Imployers Antonio ffernandes Caravajall, Antonio Rodriques<br />
Robles, Mr Painter, Mr Page, Mr dunkin, Mr Tilly and Mr Chan?terwell<br />
and provided with their effects, saving that of her said lading soe taken in<br />
at the West Indies, twelve chests and two thirds of a chest of the said Indico were provided by and<br />
laded for this deponents owne account, and that hee hath two of his owne shipp<br />
chests which are full of druggs for his owne account, and that of the said<br />
Sassaperilla sixteene ?w?o?ues were provided by and laded by his precontest<br />
Toribio ffernandez for his owne account, and that this deponent bought them<br />
afterwards of him, and that the said Betts hath twenty chests and a third of a chest of the fore said<br />
Indico for his account, and his owne chest full of druggs, And<br />
saith that this deponent is a subiect of this Commonwealth and hath<br />
lived tenn yeares and bin married and a house keeper seaven yeares in this<br />
citie, five yeeres whereof hee lived in three tunne alley neere Moregate<br />
and now liveth in Leadenhall streete over against Creechurch, and hath<br />
lived some time at Lime?house, but is an Irish man borne, and soe<br />
is the said Betts, who hath lived in London for all the said time of this<br />
deponents dwelling there, and (as hee hath heard) for tenn yeeres before and<br />
served an Apprenticeshipp here to a Mariner. And further that the said<br />
shipp departed from Truxillo aforesaid with intent to come and stop at<br />
dover or deale whence this deponent or the said Lopez were to have come to<br />
their said Imployers in this citie to receive orders about discharge?s, But<br />
byders about discharge?s, But<br />
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