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To the second article he saieth, That hee … To the second article he saieth, That hee well knoweth the<br />
shipp the ''Nostra Seniora da Rosario Saint Gonsalvo'' arlate<br />
and that the said shipp in the Companie of this deponent and of his<br />
shipp the ''fortune'' of Lisbone did depart from the Port<br />
of Lisbone towards the Brazeele in or about the moneth of<br />
december <u>1656.</u> and arrived also in Companie with this deponent<br />
at fernambuco arlate, (where the said shipp ''Nostra Seniora''<br />
remained) and that such their arrivall was in or about the<br />
beginning of the moneth of March next ensueing, and that<br />
the said shipp ''nostra Seniora'' was sett out from Lisbone aforesaid<br />
by one John Martines Cascaias (whom this deponent conceiveth<br />
to be the person in this article corruptly sett downe, but meant [?and]<br />
included by the name of John Mestues Costuhos) a [?Merchant]<br />
of Portugall and a Subject of the king thereof and the Owner<br />
of the said shipp the ''Nostra Seniora'' and for and as such generally<br />
reputed and accompted at Lisbone, And that the designe and<br />
imployment upon which the said shipp went was to lade sugar[?s]<br />
and other goods and merchandises at the Brazeele in the<br />
Dominions of the king of Portugall, and to bring the same<br />
from theare to Lisbone, And soe much he saieth was and is<br />
at Lisbone and the Brazeele aforesaid publique and notorious<br />
of this deponents certaine knowledge who sailed in Companie with<br />
the said shipp both to and from the Brazeele upon the [?XXX]<br />
designe And further to this article hee deposeth not/
To the third article of the said Allegation hee saieth, That upon<br />
arrivall of the said shipp the ''nostra Seniora'' at ffernambuco<br />
aforesaid, the ffactors and Agents of the said Brazeele<br />
Companie and others all Subjects of the said king of Portugall<br />
there and thereabouts residing as ffactors in or about the<br />
moneths of Aprill May June July and August 1657. at<br />
fernambuco aforesaid or other parts thereabouts all in obedience<br />
to the king of Portugall, did, (as this deponent hath most credibly<br />
heard and constantly beleeveth,) this deponent being then at the Bahia<br />
lade or cause to be laden in and on board the said shipp ''Nostra''<br />
''Seniora de Rosario Saint Gonsalvo'' the number or quantitie of<br />
Three hundred and fifty Chests and fetches of sugar and<br />
Tobacco or thereabouts and a cost and quantity of Brazeele wood to be<br />
carried and transported in the said shipp from thence to<br />
Lisbone and there to be unladed out of the same, And that this<br />
deponent having taken in his shipps lading of Sugars at the Bahia<br />
returned thence to ffernambuco designed to sett saile from<br />
thence in Companie with the said shipp ''nostra Seniora''<br />
(where this]'nostra Seniora''<br />
(where this] +
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