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plate and other merchandizes and carry the … plate and other merchandizes and carry the same to Angola and<br />
other places of Ginney and dispose thereof, which hee knoweth having<br />
himselfe (who is a Spaniard) used that trade, And this hee saith is<br />
true publique and notorious.
To the fifth 6 7 and 8 hee saith hee well knoweth the shipp the ''lady of Conquest''<br />
arlate and the arlate John Rodriguez Calderon who was Captaine of her, and<br />
saith shee was a Permission shipp having license from the officers<br />
of the king of Spaine to trade in manner oforesaid, and in the yeere<br />
1656 hee this examinate being at Camana in the Spanish West Indies<br />
sawe the producent there, whether hee<br />
had brought from Angola in the said shipp about fiftie Negroes, and<br />
had many of them than there having disposed of the rest,<br />
and when they were recovered of sicknes, which they had got in the voyage<br />
hee put them (being about 35) into this deponents precontests and brothers<br />
shipp that was bound thense for Cartagena, and went along with<br />
them himselfe, and at Cartagena disposed and vended them for his<br />
owne account, and this hee saith was in the yeere 1656, and that hee<br />
sold some of them namely the most part of them there to one<br />
Diego de la Torra there dwelling; at 380 peeces of eight a peece,<br />
and soe as hee tooketh it hee sold all the rest, all which hee knoweth because<br />
hee this deponent went from Camana with him and his said Negroes<br />
to Cartagena in the same vessell, whereof his this deponents<br />
said brother was master, And otherwise hee cannot depose, saving<br />
the said producent had license from Angola for the said voyage, which this deponent sawe
To the nineth and tenth árticles hee saith and deposeth that the said<br />
Antonio da ffonseca ffranca out of and with the proceede of his<br />
Negroes and other Marchandizes and effects of his did at Cartagena<br />
aforesaid buy and provide for his owne account fourtie nine<br />
Potaccoes of tobaccoe, six hundred sixtie and three hides, and<br />
foure chests of Tortois shells, which hee was purposed and<br />
(soe declared) to embarque and send for Angola, but the shipp the<br />
''Lady of Conquest'' which was at Cartagena, being by the giovernour<br />
disposed of into the king of Spaines immediate service, and soe<br />
hee disappointed and finding noe other shipp bound thether,<br />
unwilling to loose the market and retourne of his said marchandizes,<br />
finding the shipp the ''Virgin Mary and All Saints'' of Cartagena to be bound<br />
for the coast of Spaine, did in or about ffebruary last lade and put<br />
all his said tobaccoes, hides, and tortois shells aboard her to be carried<br />
to Saint Lucar, Cadiz and Saint Sebastians and disposed for his owne<br />
account of him the said producent who was and is the true and<br />
lawfull owner thereof, and for such commonly accounted, all which hee<br />
knoweth because hee sawe the said producent soe buy them namely the<br />
tobaccoes of the Alfarez Major of Cartagena, the hides and shells of Joan<br />
da Alsa, and sawe him lade them for his owne account, and sawe<br />
him pay for them, And saith the said shipp the ''Virgin Mary'' was and<br />
is a Merchandizing shipp, and his said precontest master of her, And<br />
otherwise hee cannot depose, saving as aforesaid.
To the xith article hee deposeth that presently after and upon the lading of the said<br />
goods, hee sawe his said brother and precontest signe two bills of lading<br />
for signe two bills of lading<br />
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