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14th May 1645:/
[?XXXX] et a;}<br /> … 14th May 1645:/
[?XXXX] et a;}<br />
con [?XXX]}<br />
the ''Santa Claras''}
'''Nicholas de fferrari of London Merchant<br />
stranger aged 45 yeares or thereabouts sworne<br />
before the Judge of his Majestyes High Court<br />
of the Admiralty, and eamined uppon an<br />
allegation given on the behalfe of [?XXXX] and<br />
company sayeth and deposeth thereto as followeth<br />
videlicet./
To the first article of the allegation given<br />
aforesaid, hee sayeth and deposeth uppon<br />
his oath, That a Register from the Contraction<br />
house in Sivill in Spaine which this examinate<br />
hath seene it appeareth That within the<br />
tyme articulate ffrancisco Allecant was<br />
Master of the shipp the ''Santa Clara'', in her voyage<br />
from Saint Lucar to the West Indyes, and soe he<br />
was publikely accompted and reputed to be, And<br />
this hee affirmeth uppon his oath to bee true./
To the second hee sayeth That the constant<br />
custome amongst the subiects of the Kinge<br />
of Spaine in the West Indyes is, for the<br />
Master of the shipp which taketh in any goods there<br />
to make an entry thereof expressing<br />
the particulars thereof and by whom they<br />
were lade, and where and to whom to bee delivered<br />
and a coppy of that entry signed by the<br />
Governor the Kings Officer and the Secretary <br />
of that place and sealed upp is usually sent<br />
to the contraction house at Sivill and there<br />
full faith and creditt is given to the same and<br />
by that entry or Register the partyes to<br />
whom the goods are consigned demannd and<br />
receive their goods, without any particuler<br />
bills of lading neither doe they use to signe<br />
any bills of lading for the same And this<br />
hee knoweth to be true who hath bin commander<br />
of a shipp in the West Indyes which sailed from<br />
Sivill and was consigned to returne from the<br />
West Indyes to Sivill, and in that<br />
voyage observed the custome to bee as aforesaid.
To the 3d hee cannot depose otherwise then before
To the rest of the articles hee cannot depose<br />
Saving that about two yeares since, the saidving that about two yeares since, the said +
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