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To the 7th Interrogatorie hee saith that h … To the 7th Interrogatorie hee saith that hee beleeveth that there passed<br />
discourse betwixt the interrate Mr Chillingworth and this examinate to the<br />
effect interrogated, and that this deponent as hee beleeveth did or might<br />
answer him as is interrogated, and more full to that effect, for hee saith<br />
it being his endeavour that everyone there should beleeve<br />
the said goods to be belonging to Spaniards hee this examinate said as much<br />
as hee could to induce any with whom hee discoursed thereabouts (which<br />
was with many soe to beleeve, but all was in colour only and<br />
to preserve them to mr ffernandez.
To the 8th hee saith that the said exported lading was at the<br />
canaries sold for sixteene hundred pounds (sterling) or thereabouts,<br />
and were sold to soe many persons that hee remembreth not all their<br />
names, but some hee doth, namely Don Simon de Herrera, don Christoval<br />
de Alvarado, and don Bernardo de Armand[?aris], of whome alsoe hee<br />
bought part of the said goods soe laden as aforesaid for the said mr<br />
ffernandez account at Teneriff, and the rest of others, some with money<br />
and some upon truck for some of the exported goods. And saith the<br />
foresaid wines and hides soe laded at Teneriff by this deponent<br />
for the said ffernandez as aforesaid cost sixtie five thousand Realls<br />
(accounting eight Reals, to a peece of eight) or thereabouts
To the 9th article hee saith that hee referreth himself to his foregoeing<br />
deposition where he hath satisfied the same./
To the 10th hee saith hee beleeveeth that the said John Balhache was not<br />
present nor as hee beleeveth privie to the writing or<br />
subscription of the said letters, but saith the said John was this deponents<br />
servant as aforesaid, referring himselfe to his foregoing deposition, and<br />
went in noe other qualitie but as this deponents servant or apprentice.
To the eleventh hee saith that at the request of the said mr Painter, this<br />
deponent caused the said first letter or second schedule of those remaining<br />
in Court to be written, to the end to colour the goods therein mentioned<br />
by making them seeme to be belonging to Spaniards, and this deponent<br />
beleeveth they are belonging to the said mr Painter, but what the said<br />
Mr Page hath owned or refused to owne or sweare hee knoweth not, and<br />
otherwise saving his foregoing deposition, hee cannot answer.
To the last hee saith that the interrogated Robert hunter bought of this<br />
deponent two pipes of wine (which were laden aboard and as hee<br />
beleeveth brought home in the said shipp) and paid for then at Teneriff, and that the said hunter was<br />
to let mr Page have them, Mr Page paying him<br />
sixtie pounds sterling for the same,<br />
and then the said mr Page should [?XXXX] for that sum of money, he saith the mr hunter<br />
gave an obligation, and that the said hunter had some hides<br />
and some tobaccoes aboard the shipp for his owne account, but<br />
howe many hides, or howe much tobaccoe hee knoweth not.
Repeated before the two Judges in Court<br />
26th January 1656/
Juan Lopez de miranda [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]Juan Lopez de miranda [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] +
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