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are loose, and saith they are all marked a … are loose, and saith they are all marked according to his said bilLs of lading,<br />
and hee doth not. knowe of any of the baggs having the armes of the kinge<br />
of Spaine thereupon. And otherwise hee cannot answer saving as aforesaid.
To the 20th hee saith that the severall marchants and factors lading the<br />
said goods telling him to whom they were to be consigned and where to be delivered<br />
hee signed the bills accordingly, and withall entred them in his book[?e]<br />
with mention of whom they were received, saving that when hee was under<br />
saile and departing out of the Baye of Cadiz, there came a barke<br />
aboard him, and brought all the goods mentioned in the bills of lading nowe<br />
by him produced and left, which goods hee received aboard and while the<br />
barke laye fastened to his shipp hee signed the said bills of lading, with<br />
two others of the same tenor with each of them, which two others of each hee<br />
delivered to the master of the barke to be carried ashore to the marchants;<br />
And being soe brought after hee was under saile hee put them by themselves<br />
and they being apart from the rest hee did not sea (sic) them when hee was<br />
commannded aboard the Captaine that seized him with the rest<br />
of his bills and papers, and soe the same were remayning aboard when the<br />
rest were delivered up and carried ashore at dover and in the downes hee comming againe aboard his shipp found those [#]
[#] [?XXX] in his chest were<br />
[?hee had] left then, and the<br />
[?XXX] being in his booke when<br />
[?XXX] in hast aboard the<br />
[?XXX] shipp, hee tooke<br />
[?XXX] with him [?supposed]<br />
[?XXX] his bills<br />
[?XXX] nor them<br />
[?XXXX] that theise<br />
[?XXX] and by themselves<br />
Christian Cloppenburg [SIGNATURE, LH MARGIN]
said goods came in soe late hee had noe convenient time (the weather<br />
being stormie) to enter them in his said booke before the said seizure, And<br />
otherwise hee cannot answer, saving as aforesaid.
To the last hee saith that hee signed bills of lading for the said silver<br />
which bills hee saith were and are true and reall, and that some of them<br />
were amongest those bills soe carried ashore at dover and that theise<br />
are the rest thereof. And othwerwise saving his foregoeing deposition<br />
cannot answer.
Christian Cloppenborgh [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
Repeated before doctor Exton./
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