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same were to have been unladed in the Port … same were to have been unladed in the Port of Lisbone<br />
and were by the Laders consigned to have bin delivered there<br />
to severall Subjects of the said king of Portugall who upon<br />
the receipt thereof were to have payd to this deponent as Master<br />
of the said shipp the fraight due for the same, all which this<br />
deponent well knoweth by reason and meanes of his said relation<br />
to the said shipp, and observation of the said Lading designe and p[XXX]<br />
and place to which the said shipps Lading went consigned, as<br />
the greatest and most considerable part thereof, Onely this deponent<br />
further saieth, That in Case any other person or persons had [?any]<br />
part or interest in any of the said sugars Tobaccoes or Brazeele<br />
wood, it was but in a very Litle and inconsiderable part thereof<br />
and that such interest or part which did not belong to the Subjects<br />
of the said king, did belong unto some Subject sof this Common=<br />
=wealth of England, some whereof have in this Court, (as this<br />
deponent beleeveth) made their Clayme demand or [?Arrest] for<br />
the same since the said shipps arrivall in England. And further<br />
to this Article he deposeth not./
To the 7th article hee saieth, That the Subjects of the Lords the<br />
States of the United Provinces arlate in the said yeare 165[?7]<br />
and at the time of the Lading of the said sugars and goods aboard<br />
the said shipp at ffernambuco and for some yeares before, and<br />
some time since had not nor have any trade nor were or are<br />
suffered or permitted to have any trade in any parts of the<br />
Brazeele which were and are in the dominions of the said<br />
king, or to lade or carry sugars or other Commodities from t[hence]<br />
but for all the said time there was and is warr and hostilities<br />
at the Brazeele and other parts thereabouts betweene the said<br />
king and the said Lords the States and their respective Subjects<br />
And that of a reall trueth the said Lords the States or their<br />
Subjects or any of them had not nor have any part in any of the<br />
said shipps lading aforesaid, nor was any of the same orig[inally]<br />
Ldaen for the accompt of them or any of them, nor doe they<br />
challenge or pretend anty title to the same in point of [?propriety]<br />
or that any of the same was originally Laden upon the accompt of<br />
them or any of them. Which the premisses he knoweth, being as<br />
aforesaid the master of the said shipp who had the care of<br />
inspection and privity of in and to the said shipps Lading and<br />
the propriety and proprietor[?ship] thereof, and being a hollander<br />
by birth, and resident at Lisbone as aforesaid hath especially<br />
found and observed the trueth of the premisses, And further<br />
(tothe premisses, And further<br />
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