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To the 9th hee saith hee thgis rendent can … To the 9th hee saith hee thgis rendent can speake spanish and English<br />
but was not at Mallega the time interrate./
To the 4th negatively.
To the 5th negatively; saving this rendent whilest hee was at Mallega<br />
aforesaid in the house of the said ffrancisco Lorenzo de Lara, did then<br />
and there in the said ffrancisco's hands see and peruse a letter or letters<br />
sent from the said ffrancisco's sonne then at Madrid importing that<br />
his said ffather was there condemned to pay the said 2000 duckats upon<br />
the occasion predeposed, notwithstanding that hee had used all possible<br />
endeavour and had twice in person petitioned the king in that behalfe<br />
which not availing, the said ffrancisco by an Order from Madrid was<br />
arrested at Mallega upon the Placa, and then forced in part to pay<br />
five hundred duckats or thereabouts, as hee declared to this deponent the<br />
same evening that hee was so arrested./
Geo Haughton [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The thirteenth day of February <u>1654:-/</u> [CENTRE HEADING]
The Clayme of Arnold Beake and Elias Beake}<br />
and Company for the shipp the ''Saint John Baptist''}<br />
of which John Claesson was Master and the}<br />
goods lately seized in the same by Major Sedgwicke}<br />
and others. Suckley. Budd}
Examined upon an Allegation<br />
exhibited on the behalfe of the<br />
said Arnold Beake and Company
'''jus./'''
'''John Claesson''' of dantzicke Mariner late<br />
Master of the said shipp the ''Saint John Baptist'' aged<br />
36. yeares or thereabouts a Wittnes sworne and<br />
examined saith as followeth videlicet:-
To the first Article of the said Allegation hee saith and deposeth, That<br />
in the moneth of January in the yeare <u>1653.</u> arlate, the shipp the<br />
''Saint John Baptist'' arlate, whereof this deponent then was Master<br />
about two moneths or upwards before the Conclusion of a peace<br />
between this Commonwealth and the States of the United Netherlands<br />
sett saile with a Cargoe of goods from the Port of dover upon the<br />
Voiage wherein shee was seized, And saith, That at such time as<br />
the said shipp sett and thence upon the Voiage in Controversie, there<br />
was very great and apparent danger of the seizure of English<br />
Vessells and goods belonging to the English, diverese whereof were<br />
in or about that time seized and confiscated by the dutch under<br />
that nation, Which hee saith was and is publique and notorious amongest<br />
Merchants and Mariners of this Nation, and that hee knoweth the<br />
premisses to be true for that hee went out and continued Master of the<br />
said shipp till the seizure in question which happened upon the<br />
28th of March new style or 18th old style next ensuing after<br />
such her setting forth. And further cannot depose./:-tting forth. And further cannot depose./:- +
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