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Citie of London where hee heepeth house an … Citie of London where hee heepeth house and family, this rendent<br />
having good acquaintance with him, and having been in his the<br />
said domingos house here. And further cannot depose:-/
To the 4th hee saith hee knoweth not, nor hath heard any thing<br />
touching any such assurances as are interrate, saving this rendent<br />
(as hee remembreth) hath heard the said domingps Correspondents<br />
in the Western Islands say That the said shipp had beene or was<br />
ensured for severall summes of money here in England or<br />
Amsterdam./:
To the 5th hee knoweth nothing concerning the seizure of the said<br />
shipp:-
Peter Goodwin [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The same day, Examined upon the said Interrogatorie:- [CENTRE HEADING]
'''5us/'''
'''Jacintho Baes''' of London servant to domingo<br />
Vaes de Britto aged 24. yeares or thereabouts<br />
sworne in Court as aforesaid and examined saith<br />
as followeth videlicet:-
To the first and second of the said Interrogatories hee saith and deposeth<br />
That the shipp the ''Saint Michael'' interrate did and doeth credibly<br />
and solely belong todomingo Vaz de Britto, and hath soe to him the<br />
said de Britto belonged for about three yeares last past as the<br />
sole Owner and Proprietor thereof and soe commonly and generally<br />
reputed and taken, and that the said shipp was originally built (as hee<br />
hath been credibly informed) for the said doming's proper accompt and<br />
service, And saith that the said domingo for all the time aforesaid hath by<br />
himselfe or Order on his behalfe caused the said shipp to bee from time<br />
to time sett forth to sea upon his owne accompt and adventure, This<br />
rendent having for all that time and long before been servant of and<br />
to the said domingo vaz de Britto, and having severall times seend and<br />
been aboard the said shipp at the Island of Saint Michael being one<br />
of the Westerne Islands, by the appointment of the aid domingo<br />
the said shipp then and there upon her reparation for the said<br />
domingo's accompt, and thereby, and by his frequent conversation<br />
with those that then belonged to the said shipp, hee is fully convinced<br />
of the trueth of the premisses and of the Propriety aforesaid. And<br />
further cannot depose:-
To the third Interrogatorie hee saith, That the interrate domingo Vaz de<br />
Britto hath resided in this Citie of London, and hath kept house<br />
and family here for about three yeares last past or this rendents<br />
knowledge being his the said domingo's servant, and for such an<br />
Inhabitant for all that time the said domingo hath been and is<br />
well domingo hath been and is<br />
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