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Teneriff, the said Juan Lopez de Miranda t … Teneriff, the said Juan Lopez de Miranda the foresaid factor then having<br />
sold, bartered and dispossed thereof, and did there lade and cause to be<br />
laden aboard the said shipp before Oratavo and for account aforesaid<br />
fiftie three pipes (or thereabouts) of wine marked as at the margin<br />
and six hundred seventie seven hides or thereabouts, to be thence<br />
transported in her to this port and here to be delivered to the said mr<br />
ffernandez or his deputies or agents for the account<br />
of him the said Antonio ffernandez Caravajell, for what he saith they<br />
were laden, all which hee knoweth being present and seeing and<br />
assisting in the lading of the said goods, and taking note thereof, being<br />
the said servant of the said Miranda, factor of the said ffernandez. And<br />
otherwise he cannot depose.
To the tenth and eleventh article and bill of lading annexed (nowe showed<br />
unto him) hee saith and deposeth that hee beleeveth the contents of the<br />
said bill of lading to be true, for the reasons aforesaid, but hee did not<br />
see the signing thereof, and therefore cannnot depose thereto otherwise<br />
then as aforesaid.
To the twelth and thirteenth articles, and bill annexed dated 4 June<br />
1656, he saith and deposeth that after the lading of the said wines and<br />
hides aboard the said shipp before Oratavo for this port and account<br />
aforesaid by the said Miranda, hee the said John Lopez de Miranda, having<br />
received some hurt, so that he could not (as hee declared hee intended)<br />
retourne therewith himself, but this deponent came in the same shipp<br />
therewith to give an account thereof to the said ffernandez, and gave<br />
this deponent ˹and˺ (directed to the said ffernandez) to be delivered by this<br />
deponent to him, and this deponent accordingly delivered the same<br />
to him the said ffernandez upon the said shipps arivall in the downes,<br />
and verily beleeveth the said bill annexed, to be that same bill<br />
for by this deponent brought and delivered, hee taking speciall notice<br />
of the long dash in the endorsement (as nowe therein appeares) and<br />
saith hee very assuredly beleeveth the said bill and endorsement to be the<br />
hand writing of the said Miranda with which this examinate is<br />
well acquainted having often seen him write, and seen much<br />
of his writing.
To the 14th hee saith that the said fiftie three pipes of wine, and<br />
six hundred seventie seven hides, were really and truly bought<br />
provided and laded aboard the said shipp for the said ffernandez his<br />
account, and were the proceede of the said linnens and other goods<br />
hence exported in the said shipp as aforesaid the said voyage<br />
for the said ffernandez his account, which he knoweth for the<br />
reasons aforesaid, and further hee this deponent sawe the buying and<br />
providing thereby his said master with the said mr ffernandez said<br />
effect, and sawe the lading the said wines and hides going aboard<br />
with them to see their lading, and that the said mr ffernandez<br />
bore the adventure thereof, without any other having any share or<br />
interest therein and otherwise hee cannot depose, being as aforesaid
To the 17th article hee saith that after the thisser and arivall of the<br />
said shipp with the said wines and hides in this port, and<br />
while she lay therewith at anchor in the river of Thames neere this citie<br />
there Thames neere this citie<br />
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