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to don lewis Perez de Vittoria an Inhabita … to don lewis Perez de Vittoria an Inhabitant of the [?CXXX]<br />
and a Treasurer there, and other of the goods to severall parties [?and]<br />
persons mentioned in the bills of lading not knowing their [?names]<br />
without booke nor what they are, saving that one of them is [?named]<br />
John Britten and is a Portugese, and for the said [?CXXX]<br />
[?XXX] hee saith the same wholly belongs to the said freighters [?William]<br />
[?delbo] and companie, and the said sugares (saving he [?said]<br />
six chests) were laded by this deponent, and the said six chests [?and]<br />
five hundred and threescore hides were laded by one [?Michaell]<br />
de ffaguagua factor of the said don lewes Perez, and [?XX XXX]<br />
of the said hides namely five hundred of them and the [?AlXXX XXX]<br />
other particular persons mentioned in the bills of lading, and<br />
the said severall goods were to be delivered namely the Campecha [?wood]<br />
at Teneriff to an English man named Ge[?XXX] Martin (as hee is commonly called)<br />
but this deponent hath heard of another [?named ?XXX]<br />
hath, but doth not remember what it is) to the use of the [?said]<br />
freighters the said Martin being their factor there, The sugars<br />
belonging to this deponent to be there alsoe delivered to this deponent<br />
and the six chests and the hides of done lewis, were for the<br />
said don his account to be there delivered to his use<br />
and the said other hides and other goods belonging to the said<br />
Britton were there to be delivered to him, and the rest of the<br />
klading to the severall other persons according to their bills of<br />
lading. And saith the mariners had some goods [?betweene]<br />
decks for their owne use whereof hee tooke noe account. And<br />
further deposeth not.
To the fourth Interrogatorie hee saith and deposeth That hee this deponent<br />
as aforesaid is sole owner of the said shipp Tackle and furniture, and an<br />
Inhabitant of Saint Lucar and a subiect of the king of Spaine, and<br />
[?XXX] owner hee became master or Captaine of the said shipp, and<br />
hee was freighted by the said freighters to goe to Cartagena there to [?deliver]<br />
part of his outward lading, and thence to goe to havana and there deliver the rest and there to take in the siad<br />
Lading of Campecha wood and other goods, and saith that there were some [?XXX]<br />
of fianza or [?trust] passed betweene the said freightors and this deponent<br />
touching the said voyage, which were not entred in the publique<br />
entries in Spaine, and saith that preparing to fight [?uponm ?the]<br />
comming up of the frigot, this deponent threw<br />
over board a chest wherein hee beleeves were [?XXXX]<br />
Instructions, and the mariners of the frigot [?comming]<br />
aboard did as hee saith throw over board severall papers<br />
that came to their hands, finding that they made not for [?their]<br />
purpose. And saith the foresaid parties to whom the said [?goods]<br />
belonged were to pay freight for the same according to their<br />
severall proportions and interests, and otherwise hee cannot [?answer]<br />
saving as aforesaid.
To the fifth Interrogatorie and the booke and respective papers<br />
now showed unto him hee saith an deposeth that the said [?booke]<br />
and respective papers were aboard and belonging to the said [?XXX]<br />
[?when GUTTER]the said [?XXX]<br />
[?when GUTTER] +
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