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To the 6th hee cannot depose.
To the seav … To the 6th hee cannot depose.
To the seaventh hee saith that after receipt of the said goods aboard at<br />
Amsterdam, shee set saile and departed thence and arived at Santa Cruse in the<br />
Canaries, where hee said deales were delivered out of his sight and knowledge<br />
and thirtie pipes of Canarie wine taken in as the proceed thereof, and further<br />
hee cannot depose, saying hee knowes not Cornelius huyskens.
To the 8th hee saith that the said Mollar alsoe tooke fourteene Spaniards aboard<br />
at Santa Cruse, which were added to the ships company, consisting before of six and<br />
thirtie persons, dutch and Easterlings, and the said Spaniards as hee conceiveth<br />
were embarqued to be imployed and goe ashore upon occasion at the East Indias<br />
where the dutch were not soe free. And further cannot depose.
To the 9th hee saith that after receipt of the said Spanairds and wine aboard<br />
the said shipp ''Santa Maria'', shee went therewith and with her other goods brought<br />
from Amsterdam, to Comana, where not finding trade shee went to Santa domingo,<br />
where the said John Mollar with the assistance of John Mexia da herera<br />
(who went from Amsterdam in the said shipp to assist the said Mollar in those<br />
parts) bartered and sold awy all the rest of the said outwards goods as alsoe the said<br />
wine, and received aboard in restourne thereof hides, Cacoa, Brazil wood,<br />
Tobacoe, and Ginger, which goods hee beleeveth to have bin laded for the account of<br />
the said van hulten, because hee was said to be the freighter of the said ship. And<br />
further hee cannot depose.
To the 10th hee saith hee knoweth not the number, weight or quantitie of the said<br />
hides, Cacoa, Brazil wood, tobacoe, or Ginger soe produced and received aboard<br />
at Santa domingo, And further cannot depose.
To the 11th hee cannot depose saving as aforesaid.
To the 12th and 13th hee cannot depose, not knowing ought of the signing of the<br />
bills, nor knowing how to write or reade.
To the 14th hee cannot depose.
To the 15th hee saith that after receipt of the said goods aboard, shee departed from Santa domingo for<br />
Amstedam intending to touch by the way at Santa Cruse.
To the 16 and 17th hee saith that soe touching at Santa Cruse, the fourteene<br />
Spaniards were there put againe ashore and left, and otherwise hee cannot<br />
depose
To the 18th hee cannot depose.
To the 19th hee cannot depose.
To the 20th hee cannot depose.
To the 21th hee saith that after about fourteene dayes stay at Santa Cruse in her said<br />
retourne from Santa Domingo, shee departed for Amsterdam but came afterwards into the Bay of Gibraltar<br />
and there came to an anchor as is hereafter de[XXXXed] And otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the 22th hee cannot depose.
To 23. 24. 25. and 26 hee saith that upon the said ships said comming and anchoring<br />
in the roade of Gibraltar, the said John Mexia da herera went ashore to goe to<br />
Cadiz, and the said Mollar went ashore with him, and after about two or three<br />
houres stay there, the said Mollar retourned aboard, but the said Mexia retourned<br />
not againe, and saith that as they were comming from Santa Cruse<br />
they met with a dutch fflute or vessell whereof one Mat[?z] was master<br />
belonging to holland, which was going in ballast for Malaga to seake a<br />
freight, and saith the said fflute was freighted to carry the hides and Brazil<br />
wood that were in the ''Santa Maria'' to Amstedam, and saith that being soe freighted<br />
shee went with the said shipp the ''Santa Maria'' into the said Bay [XXXX] was thought most convenient to goe into the said Bay to take out the said hides and Brazill wood and put them [?aboard] the said fflute<br />
but before their comming into the Bay they at sea began to take out<br />
the hides and Brazil wood out of the ''Santa Maria'' and put them into the said fflute<br />
but them into the said fflute<br />
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