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To the eighth hee saith that the said prod … To the eighth hee saith that the said producent having soe put<br />
the said Negroes aboard for the said voyage, did in the moneth of<br />
October of the said yeere or thereabouts imbarque his person<br />
alsoe, and depart with her, and arived with her and the said<br />
Negroes and touched at Camana in the West Indies in or about<br />
January next following, where hee disposed of some of them<br />
and afterwards [XXXX]ted the rest in another vessell to Cartagena,<br />
and there sold them or most of them to diego da Terra after the rate<br />
of 380 peeces of eight per head, all which hee knoweth coming from<br />
Angola with the said producent and Negroes, and touching with the<br />
said shipp at Comana, and seeing the producent there dispose of<br />
some of his Negroes, and hee the producent staying there to<br />
refresh him selfe and the rest because of sicknes that befell them on the voyage, this deponent went before<br />
to Cartagena in the said shipp and after sawe the producent with the<br />
rest of his Negroes arive there in another vessell. And otherwise<br />
hee cannot depose
To the nineth and tenth hee saith that at Cartagena the said producent<br />
having disposed of his said Negroes<br />
did provide and buy for his owne account these sixe hundred sixtie<br />
and three hides fourtie nine potacoes of tobaccoe and foure<br />
chests of Tortois shells, purporting to lade them for Angola, but<br />
the said shipp the ''Lady of Conquest'' which came from Angola, and<br />
was intended to retourne thither, being otherwise disposed of<br />
by the Governour of Cartagena, the said producent being<br />
disappointed of his sending his said goods for Angola (there being<br />
then noe other vessell bound thither) and having the same upon his<br />
hands, and finding the shipp the ''Virgin Mary and all Saints'' of<br />
Cartagena bound for Cadiz, Saint Lucar or Saint Sebastian in<br />
Spaine, did lade them aboard her to get a market for them, and<br />
imbarked himselfe alsoe in the said shipp to dispose of them and<br />
sell them for his most advantage, And saith that the said producent<br />
was and is the sole owner of áll the said tobaccoes, hides and<br />
shells and for such commonly accounted. yeelding asXXXX of his<br />
knowledge as aforesaid.
To the eleaventh hee saith hee sawe the same the commander of the said<br />
shipp (his precontest diego de la Baton) signe two bills of lading<br />
both of one tenor for the said goods after the lading thereof, namely<br />
presently after the said lading, which bills hee beleeveth to be true<br />
and reall, and saith the said shipp with the said producent and<br />
his said goods in her departed from Cartagena on the said voyage<br />
for Spaine in ffebruary last or thereabouts./
To the 12th hee saith that the said shipp with the said goods aboard<br />
her was in her course for Spaine met with and seized by a frigot<br />
of this commonwealth (having another frigot in her company) and<br />
brought into England, all which hee knoweth seeing the same [donne GUTTER]<br />
hee this deponent being one of the mariners of the said shipp the<br />
''Virgin Mary and all saints''.
To the 13th hee saith the said producent was aboard at the XXXX of<br />
the was aboard at the XXXX of<br />
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