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To the 12th and 13th articles and to the b … To the 12th and 13th articles and to the bill or schedule annexed bearing date the<br />
4th of June 1656 nowe showed unto him, hee saith and deposeth that upon the<br />
lading of the said fiftie three pipes of wine and six hundred seventie seven<br />
hides aboard the said shipp, hee this deponent wrote to the said ffernandez<br />
advertizing him of the said lading for his account, and in this bill soo written<br />
inclosed the said bill of lading, sealing the same up, and sent it alonge<br />
with the said shipp for London, where hee beleeveth the same came safe to the<br />
said ffernandez his hand, and saith the said bill or schedule annexed dated<br />
the 4th of June 1656 written in the Spanish language, and endorsed<br />
was and is the same bill soe by him written and sent, and was with the<br />
subscripcion and endorsement wholly of this deponents owne hand writing<br />
and was soe written and sent away on or about the day of the date of<br />
the said bills, and the same was and is true and reale and not colourable.<br />
and saith that this deponent was purported to have come home with the said wines and
XXXXXXX to this port and<br />
[????] the delivery of them<br />
[???? having recieved here<br />
[????], hee was desired<br />
[?????] and so was<br />
[???] to stay at Teneriff<br />
2[????] his strength, and send<br />
[???] John Baillehach</margin>
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To the fourteenth article hee saith that the said fiftie three pipes of wine<br />
and six hundred seventie seven hides were really and truely bought,<br />
provided and laded aboard the said shipp for the foresaid mr ffernandez his account<br />
proper, and were and are the proceeds of the said linnens and other<br />
exported goods of the said ffernandez predeposed, and with the said exported<br />
goods hee the said ffernandez hath really paid and satisfied for the same<br />
and ran and solely bore the adventure thereof, and that noe subiect<br />
the king of Spaine, or person what soever other than the said Antonio<br />
ffernandez had or hath any part share or interest therein whatsoever<br />
Juan Lopez de Miranda
All which hee knoweth being the factor and person imployed both in the<br />
outward lading and proceeding of the said shipp, and in the disposing thereof<br />
and lading as aforesaid of the said fiftie three pipes of wine and six<br />
hundred seventie seven hides for the said Antonia ffernandez Caravajall<br />
his account./
Upon the rest hee is not examined by direcion of the producent.
Juan Lopez de Miranda [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 19th January 1656. [CENTRE HEADING]
'''2.'''
'''John Balhache''' borne at St Malo's but nowe residing in London<br />
Marchant, aged nineteene yeares or thereabouts, sworne and examined
To the second and third articles of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth<br />
that hee very well knoweth the producent Antonio ffernandez Carravajall<br />
and the shipp the ''Irish Merchant'' arlate, and saith that the said Antonio<br />
ffernandez having taken the said shipp to freight for the voyage allegate<br />
did a about a yeere since lade and cause to be laded aboard her in the River<br />
of Thames severall merchandizes in ffrench linnens and other goods amounting<br />
(as they were commonly estimated and as it was commonly said that<br />
they were worth) to the sum or value of twelve hundred pound sterling<br />
or thereabouts, to be carried in the said shipp to the Iland of Teneriffe<br />
and there to be delivered and disposed of for the said ffernandez his<br />
account, and the proceede thereof to be invested in wines and other<br />
merchandizes and retourned to this port for the same account. and further<br />
that the arlate John Lopez de Miranda was by the said ffernandez<br />
expressly sent out in the said shipp with the said goods as factor of the<br />
said ffernandez (for whose account he saith they were laden) and to invest<br />
and make retourne thereof as aforesaid for the best advantage of the<br />
saidthe best advantage of the<br />
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