HCA 13/71 f.549v Annotate

Expand this area to see details of page purpose, how to register, how to add footnotes, and useful links.

---

Purpose

This page is for the annotation of HCA 13/71 f.549v.

Annotations can be viewed by everyone on a read-only basis.

For more information on MarineLives and the MarineLives Annotation Project read our Shipping News blog entries:

Annotating Marine Lives, May 1st 2013
Adding value to primary documents, May 8th 2013
Witnesses in Court, 1657-1658 (May 9th, 2013)

---

Registration to annotate documents

Registration is required to contribute annotations to this page and to other pages in the wiki.

You can register using the following Form, and we will issue you with a UserName and Password for the wiki.

---

Text formatting

The MarineLives transcription platform is built on MediaWiki, which uses wiki markup to format text. For a guide showing how to produce italics, bold, escaped text and headings, see the MediaWiki page on formatting; there are also guides for internal and external links, image embedding, tables, and more on lists.

---

Adding footnotes

• Go into edit mode
• Insert immediately after the sentence or phrase you wish to annotate the following macro:<ref>This is the footnote text</ref>
• Replace 'This is the footnote text' with the footnote you wish to add, using the format: first name, surname, title, (place of publication, date of publication), page or folio number
• Save the page

For more information and advanced formatting, including how to add and format links within the footnote, see the Wikipedia help on footnotes. This uses the same markup formatting.

Example footnote template:

• ''HCA 13/XX f.XXXX Case: XXXX; Deposition: XXXX; Date: XXXX. Transcribed by XXXX''<ref>[http://XXXXX Electronic link to a digital source]</ref>

---

Suggested links

Annotate HCA 13/64 Volume Page
Annotate HCA 13/65 Volume Page
Annotate HCA 13/68 Volume Page
Annotate HCA 13/69 Volume Page
Annotate HCA 13/70 Volume Page
Annotate HCA 13/71 Volume Page
Annotate HCA 13/72 Volume Page
Annotate HCA 13/73 Volume Page
Annotate HCA 13/74 Volume Page
Marine Lives Tools

Image

P1140268

Transcription

The third of ffebruary 1656. [CENTRE HEADING]

5

Manuel de ffonseca Meza Merchant, Booke keeper
of the producent Antonio ffernandez Caravajall, aged
19 yeares or thereabouts swore and examined.

To the second and third articles of the said allegation hee saith and
deposeth that upon the hiring and a ffreighting of the shipp the
Irish merchant (otherwise the dolphin) arlate for the voyage in
question, hee the said Antonio ffernandez Carravajall did lade and
caused to be laden aboard her then lying in the River of Thames
and bound for the Canaries, severell sorts of ffrench linnens, and
all other goods and merchandizes amounting in value to twelve
hundred pounds sterling or more, for the proper account and
adventure of the said ffernandez, to be carried in her from this
port to the Canaries Ilands and there to be disposed of for his
his advantage and proper account, and the proceede thereof to be
invested in wines and West India goods, to be retourned in the said
shipp to this port for the said account of mr ffernandez, All
which hee knoweth being acquainted with the buying and
providing the said linnens and other exported goods by and for the
use of the said mr ffernandez, and with the paying for the same by him, and
with the lading them aboard the said shipp in this port for the said
voyage hee this deponent keeping mr ffernandez his account
and making entries thereof in his bookes. And further saith that
the arlate John Lopez de Miranda was agreed with by the said
ffernandez to goe and was sent and did goe factor with the said goods
to dispose them at the Canaries and make retourne thereof as
aforesaid for the use and benefit of the said ffernandez, which
knoweth being acquainted with such his being Imployed by Mr
ffernandez, and with the orders given him in the behalfe by Mr
ffernandez.

To the fourth article and schedule annexed nowe showed unto him
hee saith and deposeth that the said John Lopez de Miranda before
his departure from this citie on the said voyage with the said shipp,
did as factor of the said mr ffernandez by writing in the Spanish
language, acknowledged the said goods soe here laden to be the goods
of him the said mr ffernandez, and then hee would dispose and
make retourne thereof for mr ffernandez his account, or to the same
effect, referring himselfe to the said writing itselfe, which hee
saith is the said schedule annexed dated 21/31 of January 1655,
and that the same was written with this deponents hand by the
order of mr ffernandez and consent of mr Miranda, which
mr Miranda hee saith subscribed the same with his name
and owne hand on or about the day of the date thereof on the
said mr ffernandez his cause in Leadenhall Street London, in the
presence of this deponent and of his precontest Simon du Cassere
who

Suggested links

HCA 13/71 Page Log & Planner
HCA 3/47 Page Log & Planner