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letters from them or living at Genua sent … letters from them or living at Genua sent to and received by the said mr<br />
Vandeput their correspondent, and severall letteres of his directed to them as there resident, And<br />
further hee doth not depose..
To the third article hee saith that before the barrs of silver in question<br />
came and arived here in England the factor of the said producents named<br />
don lewes Perez da Vittoria sent from the Iland of Teneriff to the said<br />
mr Vandeput for the account of the said producents to the valew of twenty<br />
seaven hundred pounds sterling and upwards in silver, which were received<br />
by the said mr Vandeput here in this port before the arivall of the silver<br />
in question, and that since the arivall and receipt of the said silver in question<br />
hee the said Mr Vandeput for the accompt of the said producents<br />
hath received from the Canaries from the said don lewes about foure<br />
thousand pounds sterling, of this deponents sight, who sawe such<br />
receipt thereof and the ;etteres and dispatches concerning the same and<br />
hath placed the same to the said producents Accompt, hee being as<br />
aforesaid booke keeper of the said Mr Vandeput, and thereby hee<br />
well knoweth that the said producents have and doe drive a<br />
very considerable trade in silver from the Canaries. And further<br />
hee deposeth not.
To the fourth article hee saith that before the lading of the silver in<br />
question aboard the shipp the ''Saint Laurance'' severall Genoese Merchants<br />
wrote and sent over to the said mr Vandeput to London letteres whereby<br />
they desired him to certifie or advise them whether or not they might<br />
safely send silver or Bullion to London and consigne the same to<br />
him the said Mr Vandeput without danger of seizure or confiscation<br />
of the same and that the said Peter Vandeput answered them and<br />
wrote that they might doe it safely and encouraged them to such<br />
sending, and sent a translation in Spanish of the Act of Parliament<br />
in that behalfe made for the securitie of such importation, which hee<br />
knoweth having seene the said lettres soe received and the answers then<br />
being privie to the said mr Vandeputs dispatches in such matters<br />
hee being his booke keeper as aforesaid and imployed in his afaires XX<br />
??moment touching his concernes.
To the 5. 6,. and 7th articles hee saith that before any word of<br />
the seizure of the shipp ''Saint Laurence'' in question the said Mr Vandeput<br />
received letteres by other shipping from the said don Lewes advising<br />
him of the lading of the six barrs of silver (which are now questXX)<br />
aboard the shipp the ''Saint Laurence'' and of the consignment thereof to<br />
him the said Mr vandeput for the said producents their account, to be<br />
here delivered in this port. And that afterwards the said Mr Vandeput<br />
received advise from Plimouth of the bringing in of the said shipp<br />
thither, and received a packet of letteres and dispatches thence as brought<br />
thither in the said shipp ''Saint Laurence'', and amongst them the lettre<br />
and Invoice annexed to the allegation (now shewed unto him) and XXXX<br />
bill of lading, now alsoe showed unto him remaining in this Court<br />
Which hee knoweth having seene the said first letteres of advise and<br />
alsoe those and the Invoice and bill of lading soe brought in the<br />
''Saint Laurence'' upon their first bringing to the said Mr Vandeput and<br />
having now perused those exhibited and remaining in this Court ?hee<br />
well knoweth them to be the same that were soe received by Mr Vandeput<br />
and particularly by a note or marke made upon the letter by him this deponent<br />
Abd further cannot depose.
Tolt;br />
Abd further cannot depose.
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