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Ad decimum arlum deponit that after the sa … Ad decimum arlum deponit that after the said Jackets said arivall at the<br />
Barbada's hee acquainted the said Mr Spensack with the orders which hee<br />
had given to the ''Beniamins'' company as aforesaid, and before his arivall<br />
there hee wrote to him from Cape Lopus to the same effect, this deponent<br />
by his order copying the said letter, Et alr nescit deponere.
Ad undecimum deponit that after the premisses and while the said shipp<br />
the ''Mayflower'' was at nova Barcelona there came intelligence by Captaine Phillips<br />
(who there arived from the Barbadas) that the said vessell the ''Beniamin''<br />
was safely come and arived at the Barbadas, and with her lading<br />
brought from Ginny was delivered to the disposall of the said<br />
Mr Spensack, and that hee tooke upon him the ordering and disposing<br />
of the same. El alr nescit deponere.
Ad 12um deponit that after about twelve dayes staye at the Barbada's<br />
(after the arival there of the said Jacket as aforesaid) hee departed<br />
with the shipp the ''Mayflower'' and the said pinck and goods and Negro's<br />
aforesaid taken in and brought from Ginny aforesaid and came<br />
and arived therewith about the 26th of March 1648 at a certaine<br />
place in the West Indies called Cuminagata, which is under the<br />
dominion of the kinge of Spaine, and there the said Captaine<br />
Jacket accompanied with one don Louis de Chaves a Portugall<br />
Jewe went ashore to seeke for trade, and retourning the same night<br />
aboard, the said don Lewis went the next day ashore againe, and<br />
after hee had bin at the towne of nova Barcelona (about twelve<br />
English miles up in the land) hee retourned the same night aboard<br />
and in this deponents presence and hearing told the said Captaine<br />
Jacket that the said towne and countrey were inhabited by poore and<br />
rude people, and that hee held it not to be a place for them<br />
to trade in for bartering or vending their Negro's and commodities,<br />
and therefore desired him to beate it up to windeward for Cumana,<br />
or Margareta, or els to goe to Lee ward for Caraccas or Cartagena,<br />
which hee said were places of good trade and vend for his goods and<br />
Negro's and where hee the said don Louis had friends who would<br />
be assistant and faithfull unto him therein, or to the same effect.<br />
Et alr nescit deponere.
Ad 13um arlum deponit that after and notwithstanding the premisses the<br />
said Jacket contrary to his orders and commission aforesaid from the said<br />
Merchants (his imployers) and against all reason and discretion and<br />
the advice and exhortation of the said Jewe (who was much concerned<br />
with the welfare of the said vessells and good successe of the voyage<br />
having an hundred Negro's and other commodities aboard) and<br />
notwithstanding that hee had not any license to trade there, landed<br />
at [?Commanagosa] to the number of 300 Negro's and upwards out of the said two vessells<br />
that were for the said imployers accompt besides the said don Lewis<br />
his hundred Negro's, and caused and ordered them to goe up by land<br />
to the Baye of Barcelona to meete the said two vessells there, and<br />
sent a guard of Spaniards to goe alonge with and carry them thither<br />
reddens rationem scientia sua ut supra, Et alr nescit.nem scientia sua ut supra, Et alr nescit. +
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