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said Antonio ffernandez Caravajall, all wh … said Antonio ffernandez Caravajall, all which hee knoweth being<br />
here hired to goe and going servant of the said John de Miranda in<br />
the said shipp the said voyage, and here acquainted with the lading of<br />
the said goods for the said account, and with the said Miranda's being<br />
destined and sent out in the said imployment and service of mr ffernandez<br />
as his factor to the purpose arlate. and other wise hee cannot depose.
To the<br />
sixth and seeventh articles<br />
of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth that after the premisses<br />
namely after the lading the said goods aboard the said shipp at the<br />
river of Thames, shee set saile therewith for Teneriff, and the<br />
said John Miranda in the said qualitie of mr ffernandez his factor<br />
went along in her with the said goods, and safely arived there with<br />
the same, and having caused the said goods to be there dischardged, did<br />
there sell and dislpose of the same for the account of the said ffernandez<br />
and further that the said arlate John danielson so being a dutchman<br />
and subiect of the states of the United Netherlands, went alsoe<br />
alonge thither as master of her by order of or aprobation of the said ffernandez<br />
to the end that she might at the Canaries seeme and passe for a<br />
shipp of holland, belonging to the subiect of the said States, and<br />
that her goods might alsoe seeme to belong to them, and under that<br />
covert, might freely lade and unlade and traffique, without notice<br />
taken of her belonging to England in regard of the warrs, betwixt<br />
that Nation and spaine; and accordingly the said John danielson did<br />
there at Teneriff take upon him to be and comported himselfe as<br />
sole commander of her, and carry the busines soe as that shee<br />
passed there cleare for a shipp of holland, to which purpose the<br />
arlate Robert hunter (her other master) did not there appeare<br />
as master of her, not went ashore, but kept aboard her, the said<br />
danielson going ashore and signing the bills of lading for the goods<br />
, and doing all other thinge as master, all which hee<br />
knoweth to be true because hee this examinate went alonge in her<br />
as servant (as aforesaid) of the said Miranda, and sawe<br />
3the unlading of the said goods at Teneriff, and behaviour of the<br />
said Danielson as aforesaid. And otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the eighth article hee said and deposeth that the said shipp before<br />
her proceeding hence was most commonly called the ''Irish merchant''<br />
and nowe and then the ''dolphin'', that name of the ''dolphin'' being<br />
it under which she was at the Canaries to passe for a dutch ship<br />
and in the voyage she was sometimes called the Dolphin, and<br />
sometimes the ''Irish merchant'', and before Teneriff altogether<br />
a for the (at least in the presence of strangers) the Dolphin, and<br />
saith the shipp the ''Irish merchant'', and shipp ''dolphin'', are one and<br />
the same shipp, and this was and is notorious. and otherwise hee<br />
cannot depose.
To the nineth article hee saith and deposeth that after the arivall of<br />
the said shipp with the said goods, before Oratava in the Iland of<br />
Teneriffatava in the Iland of<br />
Teneriff +
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