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Transcription

said Antonio ffernandez Caravajall, all which hee knoweth being
here hired to goe and going servant of the said John de Miranda in
the said shipp the said voyage, and here acquainted with the lading of
the said goods for the said account, and with the said Miranda's being
destined and sent out in the said imployment and service of mr ffernandez
as his factor to the purpose arlate. and other wise hee cannot depose.

To the
sixth and seeventh articles
of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth that after the premisses
namely after the lading the said goods aboard the said shipp at the
river of Thames, shee set saile therewith for Teneriff, and the
said John Miranda in the said qualitie of mr ffernandez his factor
went along in her with the said goods, and safely arived there with
the same, and having caused the said goods to be there dischardged, did
there sell and dislpose of the same for the account of the said ffernandez
and further that the said arlate John danielson so being a dutchman
and subiect of the states of the United Netherlands, went alsoe
alonge thither as master of her by order of or aprobation of the said ffernandez
to the end that she might at the Canaries seeme and passe for a
shipp of holland, belonging to the subiect of the said States, and
that her goods might alsoe seeme to belong to them, and under that
covert, might freely lade and unlade and traffique, without notice
taken of her belonging to England in regard of the warrs, betwixt
that Nation and spaine; and accordingly the said John danielson did
there at Teneriff take upon him to be and comported himselfe as
sole commander of her, and carry the busines soe as that shee
passed there cleare for a shipp of holland, to which purpose the
arlate Robert hunter (her other master) did not there appeare
as master of her, not went ashore, but kept aboard her, the said
danielson going ashore and signing the bills of lading for the goods
, and doing all other thinge as master, all which hee
knoweth to be true because hee this examinate went alonge in her
as servant (as aforesaid) of the said Miranda, and sawe
3the unlading of the said goods at Teneriff, and behaviour of the
said Danielson as aforesaid. And otherwise hee cannot depose.

To the eighth article hee said and deposeth that the said shipp before
her proceeding hence was most commonly called the Irish merchant
and nowe and then the dolphin, that name of the dolphin being
it under which she was at the Canaries to passe for a dutch ship
and in the voyage she was sometimes called the Dolphin, and
sometimes the Irish merchant, and before Teneriff altogether
a for the (at least in the presence of strangers) the Dolphin, and
saith the shipp the Irish merchant, and shipp dolphin, are one and
the same shipp, and this was and is notorious. and otherwise hee
cannot depose.

To the nineth article hee saith and deposeth that after the arivall of
the said shipp with the said goods, before Oratava in the Iland of
Teneriff