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The nineteenth of June 1657.
Exámined upo … The nineteenth of June 1657.
Exámined upon the foresaid allegation.
'''4us.'''
'''Fernando Martin''' of Saint Lucars in Spaine, Mariner<br />
aged 23 yeeres or thereabouts sworne and exámined.
To the first and second articles hee saith hee well knoweth the producent Antonio<br />
da ffonseca ffranca and hath doe donne for theise three yeeres last<br />
and upwards, and saith hee the said producent is of Brazila by<br />
nation and a subiect of the king of Portugall and for such commonly<br />
accounted
To the third hee saith that hee this deponent being at Angola about<br />
in the yeere1653, did there heare and understand that the said producent had<br />
served the kinge of Portugall there in the condition of a lieutenant<br />
of a foote companie, in the warrs of the said kinge in those parts, And<br />
otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the fourth hee saith that shipps by permission use to trade<br />
betweene Cartagena and Angola, notwithstanding the warrs betweene<br />
Spaine and Portugall, and that the officers of the kinge of<br />
Spaine and Portugall use to give license for such trading<br />
notwithstanding the said warrs, and that subiects of the one and<br />
the other of those kings use to goe to and againe upon that trade<br />
having license to that purpose, and carry the commodities of one of<br />
those places to the other and from the other to that and dispose<br />
of the same, which hee knoweth being a Spaniard, yet having bin<br />
at Angola upon a trading voyage, although Angola be under<br />
the kinge of Portugall.
To the fifth hee saith hee well knew the shipp the ''lady of''<br />
''Conquest'' and the Captaine of her arlate and that shee went in the yeere 1655<br />
(with license obteyned from the king of Spaines officers) from Cadiz, to Angola<br />
and thense to the west Indies, which hee knoweth because hee this<br />
examinate went in her from Cadiz to Angola and thense to Comana<br />
in the west Indies and thense to Cartagena, and saith shee was<br />
intended for Angola againe.
To the sixth hee saith that the said shipp the ''lady of Conquest'' being<br />
arived at Angola, and thense intended for the west Indies<br />
the said producent got license of the Governour of Portugall<br />
to goe and carry Negroes and other things to Cartagena or other parts of<br />
the west Indies under the dominion of the king of Spaine<br />
and to traffique therewith for his owne account,<br />
which hee knoweth having seane the said license in<br />
the custody of the said producent.
To the seaventh hee saith that the said producent having obtained<br />
the said license, provided and laded or put aboard the said<br />
shipp at Angola in the yeere 1655, the nomber of fiftie negroes<br />
to be thense carried for the west Indies for his account and thense<br />
disposed of for his advantage, which hee knoweth seeing the same<br />
provided by the said producent and put aboard this deponent<br />
being one of the mariners of the said shipp.
Toone of the mariners of the said shipp.
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