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Robbles did (as this deponent is sure info … Robbles did (as this deponent is sure informed by the foresaid bill<br />
of Lading comming from the Canaries and alsoe by a Letter and Invoice sent [XXX] [XXXX] from the<br />
said Liva to the said Robbles). lade and putt<br />
aboard the said ship the ''Saint Laurance'' there<br />
Lying in the Port or Road of Oratava, and bound for this Port<br />
of London Ninety fower pipes of Canary wine videlicet: six pipes
'''X: 6: P:''' [FIRST MARKE, LH MARGIN]
of the said wine of the first marke in the mergent: and<br />
Eighty Eight pipes of the said wines marked with the second
'''HR: 88 P:''' [SECOND MARKE, LH MARGIN]
marke on the mergent. and one hundred and sixty sticks<br />
of Compecha wood, and Eight and thirty bundells of [?Sassa]<br />
Perilla, and two baggs of Cacoa Nutts for the account of the<br />
said Rodrigues Robbles, to be transported and Caried in the<br />
said ship from the said Port of Oratava, to this Port of London<br />
and here delivered to the said Robles or his ffactors, for<br />
his the said Robbles owne pp account and adventure,<br />
and further hee cannot depose:/:
To the .12:th and 13th. hee saith that this deponent havinhg often seene the said<br />
Bennin[X]ysent write and subscribe his marke.<br />
is thereby well acquainted with the manner or Caractere of<br />
writing his name, and having nowe perused and seene<br />
the said name of the said Peter Bennewijsent subscribed<br />
att the bottome of the said Bill of Lading for the said wines<br />
and other goods aforesaid, hee verily beleeveth and is perswaded<br />
in his Conscience. that the said name of Peter Benewysent<br />
soe subscribed to the said bill to be of his the said Binnewysents<br />
owne hand writing and furher hee<br />
cannot depose./.
To the 14th hee saith that whereas in the said Bill of Lading Exhibited<br />
the said Ninety foure pipes of wine, and other the goods before<br />
mentioned and scet downe in the said Bill of lading for the Account<br />
of the said Sir Peter Luis Van Lostack the same in<br />
truth was soe done by the said Robbles. to the<br />
end and purpose that the said goods might not be discovered<br />
at the Canaryes to belong to any Subject of the Comonwealth<br />
of England, and that if the said ship the ''Saint Laurance'' should<br />
in her passage from the Canaryes to London be met<br />
with by any of the ships of the King of Spaine or his<br />
Subiects, thet then if said bill of Lading might bee shewed<br />
the better to Collour the said goods, as if the same did<br />
really belong to the said Lostach of Amsterdam. and<br />
thereby to prevent the Comonwealth of England, and in<br />
[XXXX] the said Bill of Lading as to that part only of writing of the<br />
said wines and goods to be for the said Lostachs accompt was and is<br />
Coloured, but the rest thereof [XX] true and reall, and further he<br />
cannot depose/ and further he<br />
cannot depose/ +
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