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To the fifth hee saith that the arlate Ger … To the fifth hee saith that the arlate Gerrard [?Riper], Lopez de Molina and other<br />
the correspondents and factors of the said John Bollart who laded the said silver<br />
before mentioned did before the lading thereof signifie unto the said producent by letters<br />
that they had received his clear orders, and were imployed to lade a considerable quantitie<br />
of silver and plate for his accompt for fflanders with the first opportunitie<br />
and after the lading the foresaid silver claimed did againe advise him of the<br />
lading thereof aboard the said shipps, with intimation of the particular parcells<br />
and quantities in each shipp with the markes as before the<br />
same are set downe and numbers, and sent him the bills of lading overland<br />
for the same, which hee knoweth because hee is very well acquainted with their<br />
hand writings and frequenting the counting house of the producent and having<br />
all the particulars of the premisses communicated unto him by the producent<br />
hee came to take the more particular notice thereof, especially having the<br />
said bills of lading (being those annexed) showed unto him by the producent,<br />
and thereby being the better enabled to specifie the<br />
said particulars, and hee verily beleeveth the said bills of lading to be true<br />
and reall, and to be subscribed by the said masters or pursers.
To the sixth hee saith hee hath seene the bookes and accounts of the said<br />
producent touching the premisses, which are fairly and duly kept by way<br />
of debitor and creditor according to the custome of merchants and soone after<br />
notice received by the said John Bollart of the silver plate and money<br />
aforesaid soe laden for his accompt with the prices and chardges thereof<br />
he ethe said John [?Ballart] did give by the severall laders credit for the<br />
same according to their severall proportions in his booke of accompts<br />
and made himselfe creditor to them respectively by way of defalcations<br />
of his effects remayning in their hands, and by the bookes and accompts<br />
soe kept betweene merchant and merchant and letters and advises<br />
they became liable to and dischardged from each other for very greate<br />
summes of money, without which course the commerce of the world<br />
could not subsist or be maintained, which hee knoweth being<br />
a merchant and well acquainted with the premisses.
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