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de Morais and Jeronimo and Raphael Rodrigu … de Morais and Jeronimo and Raphael Rodrigues Lamego<br />
concerning the said designe and transaction, and for that this deponent<br />
hath beene privy to and well acquainted with the passages concerning the<br />
same. And further to this Article he deposeth not/
To the fowerth article hee saieth, That hee well knoweth that the arlate<br />
Antonio Rodrigues de Morais and Jeronimo and Raphael<br />
Rodrigues Lamego were and at this present are the factors Agents<br />
and Correspondents of the said Antonio fernandez Carvajal and<br />
that they the said factors and Correspondents in the yeares 1655.<br />
1656. and 1657. arlate were and at present are indebted and<br />
ingaged to the said fernandez Carvajal in the summe or value of<br />
two thousand pounds lawfull money of England at the least, as this<br />
deponent hath seene and observed by the said fernandez his bookes of<br />
accompts, and by bills of exchange from time to time drawne upon<br />
him by his said Correspondents, And this deponent further saieth,<br />
That hee is fully perswaded that for all the time aforesaid, the<br />
said Policarpio de Oliveyra was the factor Agent and<br />
Corresponden of the said Antonio Rodrigues de Morais and<br />
Jeronimo and Raphael Rodrigues Lamego, as this deponent hath seene<br />
and observed by severall letters of Correspondence impor[XXX] so much, as also<br />
by missives of the said Antonio Rodrigues de Morais and Jeronimo<br />
and Raphael Rodrigues Lamego sent to the said ffernandez at or about<br />
the time of the hiring and lading of the said shipp with fish, (which<br />
Letters this deponent saw and observed the Contents thereof) by which it sufficiently<br />
appeared to him this deponent that the said Policarpio de Oliveira<br />
was indebted, or had goods and effects or monies in his hands<br />
to a very considerable value of and belonging to the said Antonio<br />
Rodrigues de Morais and Jeronimo and Raphael Rodrigues<br />
Lamego, but the certaine valew or quantitie of such monies goods<br />
and effects this deponent saieth he is not privy to. And further to this<br />
Article hee deposeth not./
To the fifth article hee saieth, That in the said Letters missives soe<br />
as aforesaid sent unto the said fernandez by his said Correspondents,<br />
and which this deponent did see and was made privy to, or by some or<br />
one of them, the said fernandez received of and from his said Correspondents<br />
an Order directed to their said Agent Policarpio de Oliveyra<br />
importing that the said de Oliveira should furnish and supply<br />
the said mr fernandez with such moneys, as hee should stand<br />
in need of for the buying and lading of sugars shumacke and<br />
Tobaccoes on board the said shipp the ''New England Merchant''<br />
(out ofNew England Merchant''<br />
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