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[?XXX] English shipp or Vessell was or is … [?XXX] English shipp or Vessell was or is permitted to trade or traffique in those<br />
parts unlesse the Master of such shipp or Vessell first take his oath<br />
and afterwards enter sufficient security for the summe of 2000. duckats not<br />
to depart thence without especiall leave and dispatch first obtained from the<br />
Judgs of the Admiralty of that place, And saith, That in the yeare<br />
<u>1651:</u> last past this deponent dwelling and keeping house at Mallega was very well<br />
acquainted with ffrancisco Lorenzo de Lara the producent in this cause<br />
who was and is a Merchant and inhabitant in Mallega, where this<br />
deponent in the said yeare sawe the said producent imprisoned, and by severall<br />
discourses with the Royall Advocate fiscall of that place and by<br />
common and generall report amongst Merchants there, this deponent<br />
understood, that the said producent had been condemned in the Court of<br />
Admiraltie at Mallega, and the Sentence of that Court confirmed by<br />
Sentence of the Supreame Court of Admiralty at Madrid in Spaine in<br />
the summe of two Thousand duckatts (besides Costs of suite) in which<br />
summe the said francisco Lorenzo de Lara was soe condemned for and upon<br />
occasion of a caution or security of 2000. duckats into which hee had<br />
entred some yeares before for and on the behalfe of one Captaine<br />
Pee[?r]e an Englishman (whose name this deponent otherwise knoweth not)<br />
and Master of an English Vessell or shipp (the name alsoe unknowne to<br />
this deponent) which had some yeares before come into the roade or haven<br />
of Mallega, and for which the said Lorenzo de Lara had become<br />
[?fidejusser] in the summe of 2000. duckats according to the Custome of<br />
that place and to the effect predeposed, And that the said Captaine<br />
Pee{?r]e notwithstanding the said caution so entred into by the said<br />
producent, and notwithstanding his promise to save the said producent<br />
harmelesse, had wilfully sailed out of the said roade or haven without<br />
any permission obtained, as hee was duely obliged to doe, by meanes whereby<br />
the Advocate fiscall for the king of Spaine at Mallega had in<br />
Course of Law proceeded against and caused the said de Lara<br />
to bee condemned to pay the said summe of two Thousand duckats, and<br />
that the said producent appealing from the said Sentence of condemnation<br />
to Madrid, the sentence aforesaid was there confirmed andthe said<br />
producent [?XXXX] imprisoned, and (so farr as this deponent both by<br />
the said Advocate fiscall by name Seignor Michael {?Marrinson]<br />
by common report amongst Merchants at Mallega the said<br />
ffrancisco Lorenzo de Lara was necessitated to pay the said summe<br />
of two Thousand duckatts and costs of suite occasioned by the<br />
meanes aforesaid. And soe much hee saith was and is<br />
publiquely notorious amongst Merchants of that place<br />
and commonly [?talked] of and detested as an unworthy andtalked] of and detested as an unworthy and +
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