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''Rosario'' the voyage arlate, and thereby … ''Rosario'' the voyage arlate, and thereby well knoweth that<br />
within the time arlate namely in or about the moneth of June<br />
1650 there were at Bahia in Brazila laden and put aboard<br />
her by Edward Garcia da Binar for account of Simon Barbosa<br />
of Lisbone twenty five chests of sugars, videlicet seventeene chests<br />
of white and eight of Muscovada's, marked with the first<br />
marke in the margin, and for account of Simon Mendez Charon<br />
arlate thirtie chests of sugar, videlicet one and twenty chests and<br />
a halfe of whites and nine of Muscovada's, and twenty Rolls<br />
of tobacco of the second marke in the margin, all to be transported<br />
in the said shipp to Lisbone and there to be delivered to them<br />
the said Simon Barbosa and Simon Mendez Charon each<br />
their said severall parcells, or to their agents or factors for<br />
their uses. And saith that upon the said lading hee this examinate<br />
signed bills of lading for the same before the departure of the said<br />
shipp from Bahia, and that the two bills of lading annexed<br />
(and now showed unto him) were two of the originall bills soe<br />
by him signed, and were and are signed with his owne hand<br />
and that hee signed two other of each of the said bills, all of<br />
the same tenor, and that the contents of the said bills were and<br />
are true, and soe had and donne as therein is contained, and that<br />
there were not any other bills of any other tenor signed for the<br />
said goods, or any of them. And lastly that the said respective<br />
merchants (the claimers) were and are respectively the true and<br />
lawfull owners and proprietors of the said goods.
To the third árticle hee saith and deposeth that hee well knoweth<br />
the arlate Edward Garcia who hee saith was and is an Inhabitant<br />
of Bahia, and alsoe well knoweth the arlate Simon Barbosa<br />
and Simon Mendez Charon, who hee saith were and are natives<br />
of Portugall, and all three were and<br />
are subiects of the king of Portugall and for such commonly<br />
accounted, and the time aforesaid were resident in Lisbone.
To the fourth hee saith that the said shipp with all the said sugar<br />
and tobaccoe aboard her were in her course for Lisbone met<br />
with surprized and taken by some of the shipps of this Commonwealth<br />
and soe the said proprieters deprived thereof, the same being brought<br />
to this nation, which hee knoweth being<br />
the ''Nostra seniora'' when shee was seized, and ˹afterwards˺ turned of out<br />
of her by the takers with his company, and put into a Pink<br />
to be carried ashore at Saint Coves or Setubal.
To the Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first hee saith that hee had bin commander of the said<br />
shipp about two yeeres before her seizure, and is a native<br />
of Lisbone (but his father was an Englishman)<br />
and saith hee hath lived here in London about 5 yeeres last, and<br />
before, at Lisbone from his birth saving when hee hath bin on voyages<br />
and otherwise negatively, saving as aforesaid.
Torwise negatively, saving as aforesaid.
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