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The eighteenth of June 1657.

The claime of Antonio da ffonseca da}
ffranca for his goods in the Virgin Mary}
and All Saints of Catagena. ffrancklin Budd.}
Exámined upon an allegation given in on the
behalfe of the said claimer the 9th of this
instant.

.j.

Diego de La Baton of Sevill Master of the shipp
the Virgin Mary and All Saints of Cartagena, aged
33 yeeres or thereabouts sworne and exámined.

13. To the first árticle hee saith hee well knoweth the producent Antonio
14. da ffonseca da ffranca and hath soe donne for theise fourteene monethes
15. last or thereabouts, and that the said producent is commonly reputed a
16. native of ffarnambuco in Brazila in the dominion of the king of
17. Portugall, And other wise hee cannot depose.

18. To the second hee saith the producent is commonly esteemed a subiect
19. of the king of Portugall.

20. To the third hee saith that hee this exáminate hath seene
21. papers in the hands of the said producent declaring his being a lieutenant
22. in service of the said king of Portugall in the Warrs arlate; and to have served in the
23. said warres and imployment and to have lived at Angola hee was and is
24. commonly accounted and reputed.

25. To the fourth hee saith that for all the time arlate and to this present
26. there have bin and are certaine shipps (commonly called permission shipps)
27. which notwithstanding the warrs betweene the kings of Spaine and
28. Portugall, have and doe by mutuall permission of the said respective kings officers
29. usually goe and trade from Cartagena in the West India's in the dominion
30. of the king of Spaine to Angola in the dominion of the said king of
31. Portugall, and from Angola to Cartagena and other parts of the West
32. Indias in the subiection of the said king of Spaine, in carrying
33. Blackmores, slaves and other Merchandizes and bartering the same
34. in the West Indies, and retourning hides, tobaccoes, tortoise shells, and
35. plate thense to Angola, and this hee saith is publique and notorious.
36. And further hee cannot depose.

37. To the fifth hee saith hee well knew the shipp the Lady of Conquest
38. arlate and John Rodrigues da Calderon her commander, and sawe her
39. (being a permission shipp and having license to that purpose) depart
40. from Cadiz on the voyage arlate for Angola, whense shee was
41. bound for Cartagena aforesaid, and this deponent being at Cadiz did
42. assist the said Captaine Rodriguez in his dispatch thense, and thereby
43. to know the distance of her voyage as aforesaid, And saith that shee was
44. againe to retourne from Cartagena to Angola, And this was and is
45. true and notorious. And otherwise hee cannot depose.

46. To the sixth hee saith hee hath seene the license of the Governour of
47. Angola graunted to the said Antonio da ffonseca da ffranca in the yeere
48. 1655 for his departure thense in the said shipp for the West Indies in
49. a trading voyage for his owne account
50.
52. To the seaventh and eighth hee saith that the said producent brought the said
53. voyage from Angola to the West Indies about fiftie Negroes for his
54. owne account, which hee knoweth for that the said shipp the lady of Conquest wherein hee went touched at
55. Comana in the West Indies, where this deponent then was, and sawe
56. the said producent and Negroes, and there saw him dispose of some of
them