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baggs of peices of eight coyne of Peru con … baggs of peices of eight coyne of Peru conteyning three thousand<br />
peices of eight videlicet each bagg two hundred and fifty peices of eight
[FIRST MARKE, LH MARGIN]
more or less marked and numbred as in the margent. And allsoe<br />
the tyme and place aforesayd the sayd Christian Aelst and Jeronimo<br />
Brudgmans did cause to be laden aboard the shipp ''Salvador''<br />
whereof the arlate Christian Cloppenburgh was master, fifteene<br />
baggs of money conteyning three thousand seven hundred and fifty<br />
pecies of eight of Peru videlicet each bagg conteyning two hundred
[SECOND MARKE, LH MARGIN]
and fifty peices of eight more or lesse marked numbred as in the<br />
margent. And further sauth that the sayd Christian Aelst and<br />
Hjeronimo Brudgmans in the month of July 1652 did cause to<br />
be laden att Cadiz aforesayd the sayd shipp the ''Salvador''<br />
the aforesayd Christian Cloppenburg master four barrs of sylver<br />
which were of good alloy of Nova Hispania marked and numbred
[THIRD MARKE, LH MARGIN]
as in the margent and weighing in the whole three hundred<br />
sixty six markes and five ounces, All the sayd moneys plate<br />
and sylver for the proper use and Accompt in halfe of the sayd<br />
Christian Aelst and Jeronym Brudgmans to be carryed and<br />
transported in the sayd shipp respectively from Cadiz to Ostend and<br />
there to be delivered to the sayd Christian Aelst and Hjeronimo<br />
Brudgmans for their use and accmpt, The premisses he knoweth<br />
be true for that he saw the particular numbers of the weight of the sayd<br />
barrs as they came from the Indies, and did himselfe tell and count<br />
all the sayd peices of eight and putt them upp in their respective baggs<br />
and marked the baggs, and was aboard the respective shipps att the<br />
lading of all the sayd moneys and plate, and saw and assisted att and in<br />
the lading thereof. And further he cannot depose
To the third he saith that upon the day of the lading the aforesayd<br />
twelve baggs of money as aforesayd conteyning three thousand peices of<br />
eight the arlate John Martinsdorp aboard the ''Saint George'' in the<br />
sight of this deponent firmed three bills of lading all of one tenor for<br />
the same, one whereof was left with the sayd John Martinsdorp, and<br />
did remayne as this deponent beleeveth aboard the sayd shipp att the tyme<br />
of seizure; and two of the sayd bills this deponent took and delivered<br />
to his sayd master Jeronimo Brudgmans who sent one of them to fflanders<br />
and kept the other himselfe and brought it with him to this Citty, And<br />
saith the Bill of Lading to the allegation annexed with the name<br />
Jan Martinsdorp att the foot thereof is one of the originall bills of lading<br />
signed a shipboard in the bay of Cadiz, for the sayd twelve baggs, and is<br />
true and reall which he knoweth by the handwriting of this deponent<br />
wherewith the body and margent thereof was then written and now it is<br />
and by the firme of the sayd Martinsdorp who signed the same in sight of<br />
this deponent, who alsoe knoweth that the sayd Hjeronymo Brugmans his<br />
master brought the same to this Citty where he saw it in his possession<br />
And further referring himself to the Acts of this Court he cannot depose.
To the fourth he saith that att the respective tymes of lading the sayd 3760<br />
peices of 8/8 in fifteene baggs as aforesayd, and the sayd four barrs of<br />
plate as aforesayd aboard the ''Salvador'', the arlat Christian Cloppenburgh<br />
on board his shipp the sayd ''Salvador'' in the sight of this deponent signed<br />
six bills of lading for the same that is to say three of one tenor for the<br />
sayd 3750. peices of eight, and three of one tenor for the sayd four<br />
barrs tenor for the sayd four<br />
barrs +
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