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sylver covered with Canvas weighing togeth … sylver covered with Canvas weighing together one hundred three markes five<br />
ounces and a half[?e] of the 8th marke and number in the margent, two barrs of<br />
sylver of the 9th marke and number, and one bagg of the tenth marke<br />
containing one thousand peeces of eight Peru money, all to be transported in the<br />
said shipp to Ostend in fflanders and there to be delivered to the ffactors Agents<br />
and Correspondents of the said producent for his proper accompt use and benefitt<br />
The premisses hee deposeth upon the reasons ensueing, that is to say, for that<br />
hee this deponent having for severall yeares last past held Correspondencie with, and<br />
well knowne the trade and negotiation of Edward Peters, was in the<br />
yeare 1652 predeposed at Antwerp, where this deponents settled residence is, and where<br />
the said producent before the tyme that the said shipps were taken showed unto<br />
this deponent letters of advise and bills of lading which hee had receved from his<br />
said ffactors over land, intimating and importing, that they had laden, all the greatest<br />
part of the sylver bullion and moneys aboard the said shipp[?s] by the order and<br />
for and upon the proper accompt and adventure of the said producent in returne<br />
of such his goods as hee had formerly sent unto them, And for that the said<br />
producent upon the receiving of the said letters of advise and bills of lading, told this<br />
deponent that hee intended to write to one Mr Rishoult (sic) then a Merchant in London<br />
to give intimation to this Court that such silver and moneyes were laden aboard the<br />
said shipps for the said accompt, as this deponent then also writt concerning his owne<br />
interest in the said shipps. And otherwise saving his precedent and subsequent<br />
depositions hee saith hee cannot depose./
To the 4. article of the said Allegation and schedules or bills of lading thereunto<br />
annexed now showne unto and exactly perused by this examinate hee saith and<br />
Deposth, That the said ffactors agents and Correspondents of the said Edward<br />
Peters shortly after the lading of the severall parcells of monies plate and silver as is<br />
predeposed, sent unto him letters of advise with bils of lading for the same which this<br />
deponent as aforesaid then perused in Mr. Peters his howse at Antwerp and which<br />
have since the seizure of the said shipps been sent here into England expressely<br />
for the Clayming of the said sylver for the said accompt, and forasmuch as this<br />
Deponent is by manie yeares experience well acquainted with the severall handwriting<br />
wherewith the bills of lading now showne unto him are filled up and firmed, as<br />
hee in Conscience stedfastly beleeveth, and for that hee findeth the nyne bills of<br />
lading now perused by him punctually to agree with other nyne of the same respective<br />
tenors seized in the said shipps, and now remaining in the Registrie of this<br />
Court where this deponent hath often seene and perused them, hee is fully and<br />
absolutely confirmed and assured, that the said bills of lading were and are<br />
true and reall, and so had and done as therein is contained. And further<br />
cannot depose:/
To the 5. and 6th. hee saith an deposeth, That the said Edward Peters<br />
the producent in this Cause hath formerly lived at Dover in England, from<br />
which place hee traded into Spaine for sylver, and caused severall great quantities<br />
of sylver and bullion to be imported into this Nation this deponent then holding<br />
Correspondency with him. And that for about 6. or 7. yeares last past the<br />
said producent hath lived at Antwerp where hee now liveth, and is there<br />
Burgher and a Subject of the King of Spaine, and for such was and is well knowne<br />
(atuch was and is well knowne<br />
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