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<document-start>
1. To the eighth hee saith that the said producent having soe put
2. the said Negroes aboard for the said voyage, did in the moneth of
3. October of the said yeere or thereabouts imbarque his person
4. alsoe, and depart with her, and arived with her and the said
5. Negroes and touched at Camana in the West Indies in or about
6. January next following, where hee disposed of some of them
7. and ˹afterwards˺ XXXXted the rest in another vessell to Cartagena,
8. and there sold them or most of them to diego da Terra after the rate
9. of 380 peeces of eight per head, all which hee knoweth coming from
10. Angola with the said producent and Negroes, and touching with the
11. said shipp at Comana, and seeing the producent there dispose of
12. some of his Negroes, and hee the producent staying there to
13. refresh him selfe and the rest ˹because˺ of sicknes ˹that befell them on the voyage˺, this deponent went before
14. to Cartagena in the said shipp and after sawe the producent with the
15. rest of his Negroes arive there in another vessell. And otherwise
16. hee cannot depose
17. To the nineth ˹and tenth˺ hee saith that at Cartagena the said producent
18. having disposed of his said Negroes
19. did provide and buy for his owne account these sixe hundred sixtie
20. and three hides fourtie nine potacoes of tobaccoe and foure
21. chests of Tortois shells, purporting to lade them for Angola, but
22. the said shipp the Lady of Conquest which came from Angola, and
23. was intended to retourne thither, ˹being˺ otherwise disposed of
24. by the Governour of Cartagena, the said producent being
25. disappointed of his sending his said goods for Angola (there being
26. then noe other vessell bound thither) and having the same upon his
27. hands, and finding the shipp the Virgin Mary and all Saints of
28. Cartagena bound for Cadiz, Saint Lucar or Saint Sebastian in
29. Spaine, did lade them aboard her to get a market for them, and
30. imbarked himselfe alsoe in the said shipp to dispose of them and
31. sell them for his most advantage, And saith that the said producent
32. was and is the sole owner of áll the said tobaccoes, hides and
33. shells and for such commonly accounted. yeelding asXXXX of his
34. knowledge as aforesaid.
35. To the eleaventh hee saith hee sawe the same the commander of the said
36. shipp (his precontest diego de la Baton) signe two bills of lading
37. both of one tenor for the said goods after the lading thereof, namely
38. presently after the said lading, which bills hee beleeveth to be true
39. and reall, and saith the said shipp with the said producent and
40. his said goods in her departed from Cartagena on the said voyage
41. for Spaine in ffebruary last or thereabouts./
42. To the 12th hee saith that the said shipp with the said goods aboard
43. her was in her course for Spaine met with and seized by a frigot
44. of this commonwealth (having another frigot in her company) and
45. brought into England, all which hee knoweth seeing the same [donne GUTTER]
46. hee this deponent being one of the mariners of the said shipp the
47. Virgin Mary and all saints.
48. To the 13th hee saith the said producent was aboard at the XXXX of
49. <margin value="Bottom right, under main body of text, as lead to next page">the</margin>
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