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Transcription

The second of ffebruary 1656 [CENTRE HEADING]

4

Simon de Casseres of London Merchant, aged 47 yeeres
or thereabout swore and examined

To the fourth article of the said allegacion and the schedule therein
mentioned now showed unto him hee saith and deposeth that hee well
knoweth the arlate John Lopez de Miranda, and that the said John
being upon his preceeding outwards from this port with the shipp and
linnens and goods arlate for the Canaries in the service of the producent
Mr Antonio ffernandez Caravajall to sell and dispose the said outwards
goods and make retourne thereof in wines of other goods from the
Canaries to this port for the saie mr ffernandez his account, hee
the said John Lopez de Miranda as factor of and for the said ffernandez
did by writing under his hand written in the Spanish language
acknowledge and oblige himselfe to the effect arlate, and that thee
said schedule nowe showed unto him dated 21/31 of January 1655
was and is the same writing whereby hee soe acknowledged and obliged
himselfe, and was on or about the day of the date thereof wholly read
over and by him the said John Lopez de Miranda subscribed with
his name as nowe appeareth, in the presence of this deponent and
of Manuel de ffonseca Meza who as witness thereof for their
hands thereto as nowe alsoe appeareth; and by his name
thereto he knoweth it to be the same without alteration, and further
that the same was so donne at the house of mr ffernandez
in Leadenhall Street London. And hee beleeveth the contents of the said
schedule to be true and reall. And otherwise hee cannot depose.
Upon the rest hee is not examined by direction of the producent.

To the Interrogatories [CENTRE HEADING]

To the first after showing unto him the writings interrogated remaining in
the Registrie of this Court, hee saith he knoweth nothing of or
concerning the same, otherwise then as aforesaid, nor who wrote them
or any of them, nor by whose order they were written, nor by whom sent.

To the second hee saith that hee is by profession of Religion a
Jew, and maketh conscience of by a oath hee hath taken and beleeveth
it obliging unto him to speake the truth, without respect of persons
or things or of what profession the persons concerned are, and that
hee holdeth noe despensation from an oath taken before a magistrate
as this respondent hath taken his oath in this cause.

To the third hee saith hee knoweth all the three persons interrogated and
saith they are accounted Spaniards and subiects of the king of Spaine and
for such hee esteemeth them. And otherwise hee cannot answer.

To the 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.and 12th hee cannot answer saving as aforesaid
not knowing ought of the frieghting or lading or passages of the voyage
otherwise then as hee hath predeposed, to which hee referreth himselfe, saving that
being showne the letter mentioned in the 9th Interrogatorie hee beleeveth it to be subscribed
with the hand of the said Miranda.

Simon de Casseres [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]